"Cats in Your Gaming Room?" Topic

Do you allow your cat(s) access to your gaming room?

Like they won't come in without permission?

I try to keep cats out of a room with a game on, but there's a reason I use terrain boards or sheets no larger than the table. Cloth hanging down from the table can result in a very unhappy ending to the game.

Allow? They don't ask permission and WILL get in!

I don't have cats anymore (wife's allergic), but I miss the entertainment. While I was gaming, one of the cats had managed to climb to the top shelf of the bookcase. He had been quietly napping/watching the game for over an hour. My opponent decided to blow on his dice for a lucky role. For some reason this caught my cat's attention. Dice rolled, cat leaped onto table, 63% of everything on the table was scattered, cokes were spilled, Cheetos flew across the room. My opponent was not amused (never played him again). At first I was upset, too. But later, I thought it was effing hilarious. Good times… These days, I keep the dogs out; one of them dropped a deuce on the middle of the floor (maybe she doesn't like GW).

My now-ancient cat used to climb up in the basement rafters to watch me paint. I suppose she liked the small motions of the brush end.

Game/painting area has very limited access. The cat is only allowed in when I am present.

It is often heard "You know you're not allow on the table".

Recently, I my wife was quite amused when she heard me say "Those are my dice, you leave them alone".

Dog

Who can keep them out? They are usually fine, I just can't leave trees out after a game. My Bengal likes to deflock them.

My cat goes where she wants – it is her house after all.

I do not let the cat into the gaming room.

SWMBO does.

I have a friend whose wife's cat shredded a tabletop full of nice flocked foam terrain.
For years we played around parallel scratches and cat hair. I'm a dog guy and she is afraid to come down the stairs to my basement lair.

Years ago I learned (the hard way!) that cats and Geo-Hex don't mix.

Yes, they ove to watch the hoomins play

I don't even want cats in my garden…

Always did and do. Hard to enforce anyway.
When they are not stupid and truly your friend, they understand and seldom disturb stuff even on table (only the tail is not so wel under control, but if all is fine, it shoukd be up).
A bit of training, to avoid playing with the lonely figs or trees, as after all everyone around is having fun.
The foam stuff might be a problem.
One trick, to have expendable overhanging polystyrene tiles. He will jump, break it , fall and think this is silly, and feel very stupid in public, so not try the malefice again. (Only in case above setting does not work well enough).
They also bring out stuff lying under the shelves, handy.
Miaou
( with compliments of Barcik, the furry friend).

Gave up….. the family cat said she only takes suggestive action as a message but never acts upon them. Seems to prefer WWII 1/72 gaming more compared with 28mm Ancients with their long pikes sticking into fur.

Classic moment… found a open miniature storage box. Needed more room to curl up and sleep so pushed aside the miniature tenants with careful paws.

Four german shepherds in the house, so no, no cats.

No cats. If I wanted to have something in the house that would eat my food, cause me endless expense, ruin my furniture, break my stuff, ignore me, act arrogantly to me and leave their crap in the corner I would have had kids.

Dogs are much better. They know who's boss.

Yes. And the only cat-thingy she has done thus far is to hockey puck a stack of chit/markers off the table and on to the floor.

Our gaming facility host has two aggressive cats that like to sleep in boxes of figures or claw up terrain. So he invented "cat baffles."

No.

Although looking at Cat pics is great owning one is not going to happen, nor any pet for that matter. I spent 20 years (and counting) waiting for my kids to grow up, why would I want to get something else I have to worry about when I go on vacation?

The cat didn't move the figures of a game left out, the figures moved of their own volition…

Not a cat person. Dogs rule!

You got a problem with that?

Do you allow your cat(s) access to your gaming room?

What is this "allow" cats you speak of ?

My game room is the only cat free part of the house. I have two gaming buddies who are allergic. The game room door stays shut always.

I'm allergic and the parrots would not enjoy the company so no cats.

Cats have equal rights in this household. She does as she pleases 100% of the time. That written wargames stuff doesn't interest her at all but she really likes model railways. N gauge in particular. Even wagons just sitting there she'll go for.

No, my game room is in my outbuilding and she is a indoor cat. But the other cat ( her sister) was my painting buddy but she past away a few weeks ago.

My cats appreciate the sleeping containers placed at appropriately high enough heights on large flat blankets for maximum comfort. The various prey stand-ins are an added bonus. Water containers are also desired as long as cleaned. Dice rolled on the floor are not re-rolled as that's where nature intended them to be.

Three Australian shepherds means zero cats.

Yes, we do allow cats on the table!

No cats in the house.

I am with Rich on this – no cats in the house

This cat dropped by to play last week, but the next morning my valuables were missing.

Weird.

That's great Don! We play in the basement, old coal cellar. Old, dingy, lots of stuff down there that could get a cat in trouble. So all 4 of ours stay inside & upstairs. I have on occasion carried them down one at a time to show them what they are missing though! They all seem to dig the table. And when they do sprint downstairs, they invariably run under the table which is mounted on an old waterbed frame with drawers & such. But there is also a gap along the bottom edge for them to jump through, which they ALWAYS do & refuse to come out, until the treats do!

No cat here but we do have one weenie dog too many.

No gaming room but I do have a painting room. Once I learnt to leave a route on the painting bench for the cat to reach the window sill, there have been no incidents. Main inconvenience is when she decides she must sit on my lap when I'm painting. I used to have to move her from my chair when I went into the room but when I got a new chair I kept the old one so we have one each.

No cats, usually play @ another location (also without cats) but my greyhound likes to steal bottles of paint from my painting room so he is not allowed in there!

There's a game store in Columbus,OH where they have a cat or two inside. Cute as buttons,and sometimes rest on top of the pop machine. They've been known to hop onto the tables or walk under the tables.

Yes, the cats loving gaming night (and setting up and taking down the table). They occasionally steal trees and dice, but mostly they just want everyone to make a fuss of them.

When I had a gaming room, the cats had their own sets
of figures, dice and terrain. They never bothered
my stuff.

Nowadays, no game room, no trouble.

Thanks for all the postings fellas, hahahahahaha, we enjoyed reading AND seeing the pictures of kitties. Oh, and yes, our kitties (seven right now) do go into the game/guest room and on the game table and lay on the edge (we have a green-felt cloth on the table that IS, as per our friend Ed Mohrmann told us, washable!!!!) which is right up against some windows where the sun comes blazing in. Whenever Dad would have a game, the kitties pretty-much steered clear of the table believe it or not….even when he still had troops/terrain on it post-game. I suppose they KNEW better than to TOUCH Larry Brom's figures!! (smile)

Back when we had 2 cats, they were murder on my Geohex. They loved it, but I didn't love what their claws did to it. Dogs are a much better mix with wargaming…have three now.

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The late Buster (aka Oliver), in a rare moment in my gaming room. I did not leave access. And he was never in there without me. We do not have cats since the girls moved away.

@Gonsalvo: Jazzy, my daughter's white Siamese, once got into my box of GeoHex and tore several pieces apart. It seemed to have an effect on the feline similar to catnip. I managed to glue them back together but the damage was permanent. Also, that damned cat got into my box of Schleich pikemen and chewed one of the pike heads off. WTH?! Cats are evil.

Had a cat once confuse an open box of Lego with a litter tray. It didn't end well.

Sorry to be late joining in this. No game room, but when it was hobby/guest/office allowed once. My late precious Gracie, loved chewing the heads off of Airfix Napoleonics a couple of decades ago.. Now digging out and reclaiming said "overflow" room, but with the two terrible twos tabby terrorists, who have all but destroyed the house in their pursuit of fun paralleling guerilla activity to conquer their human, AIN'T NO WAY. Our senior citizen now about 9 has never had the chance to discover, but he will at least allow you to read your paper in one piece and just supervise from a distance as we pursue human endeavors. Unless it involves fish!

I have sufficient supervision and direction trying to write out the bills, God help you if you cook and the ever joyous moments of that sweet little paw, one claw extended tapping your cheek at 0430 to tell you they are hungry even if the alarm is set at 0500.

Some of you may be more fortunate. One of our first cats, a monstrous(23 #) orange white footed tabby would wander about the living room, carefully passing between and through my son's GI Joes and never touch or knock over a figure as we fought bravely or adventured on the floor.

Following a previous post and loving Bashytubits posts, do definitely think a cats and wargaming board is needed, nay, a necessity here on TMP.

to all you cat lovers, my best and love extended to those felines who have acquired humans.