You might think your cat is being malicious or cruel by blocking your vision of the screen, but actually, cats have an unnatural twist to their mode of thought in this case.

A cat basically is saying to you, “If you can give that object that much attention, you can give me that attention instead”. Cats can’t differentiate between if you’re doing something important on the computer or not, so your cat does this because it’s striving for attention.

Even cats who are shown lots of attention tend to do this, because they feel jealous of the attention you are giving to this weird machine and not it.

But you haven’t despaired yet. If you reach up and put your cat on the floor, it does it even more! The reason it does it more is because now it has your attention, and it wants to keep it.

For more info regarding how to deal with cats who are doing this, visit the veterinary clinic Rapid City’s website, which is found right here.