[Jewelry making - Article 01279] - Re: [Orchid] Cats in Studios - does it work?

[M'lou Brubaker]

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    I had my cat in the studio for over a decade, and it worked very
    well. She sat in my lap at the bench and at my desk, and never
    interfered with my work except for her interest in pencils & pens
    that were in current use in my hand, or abandoned on the desktop.
    These she batted to the floor, and then lost interest in. And she
    tried to bite silver chains that I was packing up many times, but I
    was firm in not allowing her to do so. 

    Once, I entered the studio to find the benchtop in disarray, and
    thought she had messed it up, but then I found out that a red
    squirrel had entered through a screen and scurried about here and
    there in its apparent efforts to get back out again. 

    I was concerned that she might tip over the Sparex pot and hurt
    herself, but she really did stay off the metal bench. She started her
    workshop life as a tiny 5-week kitten sitting on my shoulder,
    watching me work at the bench, and never, ever being allowed to get
    on the bench top. She often got silver saw filings on her black fur
    while she lay in my lap, and I carefully brushed them off so she
    would not later ingest them. She, strangely, preferred to drink the
    water in a bucket of settled investment rather than her own fresh
    water bowl, but it never seemed to hurt her. The only problem I had
    with her, and it was a big one, was her feral suitors/food thieves
    who entered through her cat door and marked the studio area with
    their urine. Phew!!  I solved that with a magnetic collar cat door
    that only she could enter. I had her bed on top of a file cabinet 
    the same level with my office desk, and she walked across the desk to
    get to it, so I did have to keep drawings and papers put away when I
    left. I was very firm about keeping her off the workbench, and it
    worked out fine. She was a joy to work with. 

M'lou Brubaker, Jeweler
Goodland, MN
www.craftswomen.com

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