A gamer shows a picture of his broken setup and explains that it was his cat. The community seems to be losing patience with such pet owners and gives the user helpful tips.
Dogs and cats can be found in many households. However, some gamers are not having much luck with their pets: When a user came home, he was astonished to see his gaming monitor. Because it was now unusable.
The community complains and is equally amused by the overwhelmed cat owner. How “bad” a cat can be for a gamer is something editor Jürgen Horn also had to experience:
Cat apparently bit into the monitor
What exactly happened? The user Morfizer1 posted a picture of his gaming monitor on reddit. It has severe image errors and looks like it has cracked in the middle. In his description, he only asks: “Is there a way to protect monitor edges from cat bites?” In another post, he explains further:
Long story short, I came home from work yesterday and found my monitor like this, with a small tooth mark in the upper right corner.
“She won’t die if she can’t go into a room or on a desk”
What are the reactions? The reactions are very varied, but also quite clear. Many ask why one must protect the monitor. Because such protection would certainly not prevent the cat from continuing to destroy expensive hardware. So someone explains quite angrily (via reddit.com):
Seriously, I see this in every cat thread. Every solution is about preventing the cat from causing damage, and none of the solutions is about teaching the cat not to bite or damage expensive things.
Another user writes on reddit: “Instead of trying to protect the monitor edge, you should teach your cat where it is allowed to climb and where it is not.”
Some from the community add: Just throw your pets out of the room and finally teach them that they have no business in certain places of the apartment. They won’t die immediately from it.
There are various “methods” to get rid of cats
What other tips are there against pets? In the thread, there are also plenty of other suggestions if you don’t want to read your pet the riot act:
- Cleansing agents with orange or lemon scent, because cats are very sensitive to such scents.
- Pool noodles or some type of pipe insulation on the monitor edges.
- Others recommend protective caps for the monitor that can be made with a 3D printer. Then they cannot at least chew on the display.
- Another tip: To protect furniture and decor from scratching orgies, have enough scratching trees or scratching boards in the apartment from the start. Then the animals quickly lose interest in computer hardware.
Cats are not only excited by hardware but also by games. A game has now become an unexpected hit and is receiving plenty of good reviews. Not only humans are enthusiastic, but also the pets in front of the monitor:
