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November 21st, 2008 by KittyKitty

I’ve been contemplating the purchase of a nanny cam in order to keep an eye on my cat. She often goes to play in the next room while I work in my home office. When she goes quiet, I can’t be sure if she has curled up in a sleepy ball or if she’s chewing on my network cables. Oh, yes: many a time I’ve had a sudden drop-out and spent an hour pinging the DNS provider and reconfiguring my router, only to find that my precious darling had sliced clean through the Ethernet cable with her sharp little teeth.

I rarely see her doing it, but I don’t have to catch her on camera in order to know it was her. The evidence is plain. There are sporadic toothmarks all along the cable, and at one point there’s a whole patch of them where the sleeve gets frayed, until I can finally see the bare gleam of copper where my cat has cut the Cat-5. That’s what the cable is called, n00bs. The full name is Category 5 Ethernet Cable, shortened to Cat-5. No wonder the cat enjoys gnawing on it. Actually, I do wonder why she doesn’t prefer to gnaw on something more natural, such as the soft leather tongue of a shoe or the fuzzy terry-cloth belt of my bathrobe. What is it about Cat-5 cable that so appeals to my cat? It must resemble something in nature that cats like to chew on, but what? A delicious snake? A beanstalk?

I want to get a nanny cam with a live feed to my computer desktop. I could have a window open in a corner of the screen while I’m working in the center. I can just see myself typing away in one window on some HTML, then I click over to the other window and there’s my cat looking cute on camera. Now that’s what I call multitasking!