Lap Wars: 21 Pictures of Cats Commandeering Laptops

John Summers • Contributor

Jun 3, 2023 9:00 PM EDT

We all know how it goes. You're busy typing away, fingers furiously flying across the keyboard, totally engrossed in your work. And then it happens - a fluffball interruption of the most adorable kind. Who needs deadlines when you've got a cat determined to stage a sit-in on your laptop? Well, in case you're not fortunate enough to have experienced such a delightful disruption, we've compiled 21 images of cats who've decided that their human's attention quota has been severely lacking.

In these pictures, you'll see how our furry feline friends devise the purr-fect plan of commandeering keyboards to ensure some much-needed petting time. They might walk across your keyboard, sit on your trackpad, or simply stretch out across the entire laptop, throwing caution (and your unsaved work) to the wind. After all, why should those strange clicking and clacking sounds get more attention than their adorable purring and meowing?

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"I’m the boss here"

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Just when you thought your workspace was safe, along comes Keyboard Cat 2.0 - now with added black and white sleekness. Meet our monochrome maestro, deftly mastering the art of lounging, right atop a laptop no less.
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"Your work can wait, I cannot."

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This suave internet surfer has figured out the optimum place to lounge is exactly where your attention is divided. Work? What's that? All productivity screeches to a halt under the weight of this cute computing blockade.
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"What's more impurrr-tant than me?"

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