Guest Blogger: Hamburger Petersik
Some of you might not know that Burger’s full first name is actually Hamburger. And you also might not know that we named him two years before we ever got him when we first started dating and agreed that it was the best dog name ever (other favorites: Meatball and Tyra Banks). You also might notice the occasional typo from time to time. I blame Hamburger. Look at how unaware he is of his errant appendages when he sleeps:
Sherry snapped this shot of him randomly poking his arm out across her keyboard as she worked. And after she took the picture, he looked up at her as if she was the one in the way:
Look at those cold, accusing eyes.
Do any of you have pets who like to interfere with your daily routine? My parents’ cat likes to sit right on the newspaper as they try to read, and he’s been known to walk across the computer keyboard mid email. But at least he’s not on Facebook superpoking us or anything…
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our dog is 30 lbs, but he insists on sitting on your lap when you’re at the computer… and don’t you dare move the mouse, b/c it’s an instant game of dog vs mouse. oy! p.s. he’s here now… he says hi to burger haha
Yes! Smoky, my boyfriend’s cat, has walked across the laptop numerous times this morning and is sitting between me and the keyboard as I type this.
Ruby, one of our golden retrievers, goes to work with me everyday. She has a major paper fetish, so when she feels like she’s not getting enough attention or just gets bored, she pulls paper out of the recycling bin and holds it so that it hangs out of her mouth. She doesn’t chew it, just holds it. Her other endearing attention-getting behaviors are pulling all the dog toys out of my briefcase, pulling dollar bills out of wherever she can find them, and pushing tennis balls in your lap. She also treks all the way up the the third floor so that she can visit everyone up there and get all the office gossip!
My cat likes to lay on my arms while I type on pc. Very hard to type that way. The dog will whine and paw me sometimes if she needs something or really wants some attention. Pets always interfere with my techie life. ;-)
I’ve been known to shove the Hubs off the couch so that our dog Hiro can have the other half. Is that so wrong?
Adorable Burger; I love the accusing look. When I feed Hiro, he stands there and peers at his food bowl, then peers at me appraisingly. Like he knows I can give him more than that b/c there’s a whole container of food in the closet. Like he knows it wouldn’t kill us to give him a steak every once in a while.
This post is so cute and funny! Love it!
My 70 lb dog insists on sleeping stretched across my pillow and my fiance’s pillow…even though said pillows are already occupied with our heads. Yes, it’s quite interesting.
My old cat used to love to play with the pencil or pen when I was writing things. I would hand in homework with random scribbles on it because it was just too cute to make her stop!
you’re going to get a ton of comments on this one, i bet! :) my dog likes to come and sit next to me and rest her chin on the corner of my laptop. if i’m at the desktop computer, she will use her nose to nudge my hand off the mouse and onto her head. :)
ps – hi burger!
my kitty, grace, sits on my lap every night while i sit at my desk and work on the computer.
http://flickr.com/photos/springtreeroad/2714697770/
My parents’ doberman/lab mix, Rocky, used to climb onto the couch when we were all on there and lean into us intil one of us would give up to the crushing wait and move! Apparently, he thought the couch belonged to him.
P.S. Any suggestions for my cuckoo clock dilemma?
Hey Natalie,
Have you tried Urban Outfitters or Fred Flare? They might have cost effective alternatives. You also might want to try nextag.com (search “cuckoo clock” and see what comes up- they pull a lot of products from other sites so you can search tons of places at once). Hope it helps! Of course you can always frame our cuckoo clock print… that might be quite fetching actually!
xo,
Sherry
I love how pets are like this!
We have no pets. We go back and forth between the US and Europe too much to want to put a pet through the stress. :( Your post made me smile.
Katie
Burger is so cute. Niski, our dachshund, loves to follow the cook around the kitchen. We call her our vacuum wiener. I can’t lie down on the couch without her snuggling up on my back behind my neck. Cheek to cheek. And our cat, Sneaks, lives and works at my husband’s office. He’s Vice President of Public Relations. haha
Sleep! Brasco thinks he owns my bed :)
My kitten has taken to sleeping on my boyfriends mac book, she leaves us lovely little essays while we’re gone. My older cat enjoys sleeping on any important papers one might leave out and the dog enjoys sleeping on freshly washed laundry so as to impart his special smell.
My littlest yorkie-poo named Biscuit loves to jump up on my desk as I work. He has been known to sit right down on the keyboard to face you as if he is saying “how dare you give your attention to that computer instead of me!”…
Oh the joy of having little doggies running around the house!
Biscuit tells Burger hi!!!!
I am a big fan of little dogs. My dog Chloe is little. But she too thinks she owns everything. Here’s an old blog post about her. It’s hard to tell but she’s laying across my lap as I’m sitting at the desk working on school work.
http://shishnit.org/2007/02/19/dear-chloe/
So cute! My cat almost ALWAYS sits in front of the monitor when I’m on the computer. I have to shoo him away so I can see what I’m doing. He’s sitting behind it right now. He also attacks me when I’m getting into the shower (every time), but that’s another story.
p.s. I have those same shoes Sherry!
Mo (our 5 year old Yorkie) thinks it is okay to sit on clean laundry when it is being folded, sit on our drop cloth when painting, jump on our ottoman and stare at the tv (no she isn’t big, but she does block the view). She is so silly and she makes me laugh everytime she does it.
Our rottie loves to sneak up on us and poke her head under an arm as we’re typing (or drinking, reading, or sleeping for that matter). She noses up really hard several times, and if you aren’t careful, you’ll end up smacking yourself in the face. LOL
Hamburger is so cute! I’d love a pint sized pup!
This is gross….but we just had a baby and our first child, a peekapoo, loves burp cloths. She keeps stealing them and hiding them. We think she’s building a nest.
Our cat manages to park itself right in front of any screen we’re watching — TV or computer — so, so annoying.
Lady, our lab will put her nose up under my arm when I type and push my arm up to try and get me to pet her. She does it constantly when i’m on the computer. Our pointer, Molly, she is so into everything else and hyper that she just doesn’t care. Now my toddler she always wanting to push buttoms on the computer. We had to get her own little kid laptop just so she could pretend to be working like mommy. haha!
My cat doesn’t just sit on the newspaper while I read. She doesn’t just block the article that I am reading. She laser focuses in on where my eyes are glancing and plants her paw over the very cluster of words I am trying to read.
Maybe she thinks I’ve entered a strange fugue state and it’s up to her to snap me out of it.
Oh, and a former landlady had a cat that would ignore the television unless a ballet was on. She’d then park herself in front of the TV.
If one of the dancers happened to be Mikhail Baryshnikov, she’d put her paw on M.B. and follow his movements across the screen. But only M.B. got the paw on screen treatment.
Weird, huh?
I run my own graphic design business from my studio at home. My cats love nothing more than to make my work more difficult than it needs to be. It’s as if they’re trying to make a point about being ‘neglected’ while I do something other than admire them. Or maybe they’re annoyed that their names aren’t nearly as awesome as Hamburger!
Oh the angst of having pets that love us!
My cats also insist on laying across the keyboard when I’m trying to work, or sitting on my lap when I eat breakfast. Not at all helpful, but sometimes I just can’t help but give into their affection and set my computer down. They know when I need a break, I guess!
I just renamed all three of my cats Hamburger. Now that’s out of the way, can I mention that I’m gettting the close-up death stare from one of them right now? I think she’s annoyed that my hands are typing, not petting. Or maybe it’s because I just called her Hamburger. Another of my cats, Hamburger II, really loves to sit on my mouse hand (like, draped across it completely) and gets really annoyed when I try to move it. GEE SORRY.
Yes, my 3 year old Wheaten Terrier, Ryleigh Whiskers O’Shaye (what can I say, she is an Irish breed) loves nothing more than a good back-scratchin! In the morning, while I am sitting at my vanity she comes up and just puts her chin on my leg. This is her subtle hint that she would now like a back-scratchin. If that doesn’t get my attention fast enough, she then places both paws on my leg and gives me those “adorable-I-know-you-would-do-anything-for-me” look! Needless to say, I have had to add 30 minutes to my morning routine, but it is absolutely worth it!
I’m glad someone else has our taste in pet names. We just named one of our betta fishes filet and the other stick.
Thanks for the suggestions, Sherry! Oh I also realized that I wrote “wait” instead of “weight” haha wups! :P
Our cat Gus is notorious for doing some of these things you have mentioned. First, my cat has an obsession with all hard surfaces like our wood floor, tables, the desk, and yes our computer. I can’t count the number of times he has laid on the open laptop and pressed keys. Then, we are left to figure out how to fix it! The moment we unfold the paper and lay it down he jumps up and lays on it. Then, he looks at us like we are in his way. I could go on and on, but you would have to meet him to believe some of the things he is capable of.
Hamburger is soooooo cute! Reminds me of my parents dog who acts like him. My current dog, Maddie will constantly put her paw on my laptop keyboard when I’m busy away typing. Hate it!! But, she’s such a cutie pie that it’s so hard to get mad at her.
hehe! your post just made me giggle! My fiance & I have also have named our future dog, a dachshund to be named Chesterfield! & now we only refer to any weiner dog(s) we see as chesterfield(s)! cute post thank you for sharing!
~emily
The cats love to interfere with my computer use in any way possible. They also play with pens while I am writing as a previous poster mentioned, leaving lovely little designs on my paper. When I was in school, they would do their best to lay across any textbook I was attempting to read. Now Ruby (my doberman) likes to put her chin on the laptop when I am not paying attention to her. Ruby also likes to follow me when I am, say, moving furniture or sweeping. They are not very helpful when I am trying to get something done.
Our dog Miles is always resting his chin on the touchpad on my laptop. I try to type around him, but his little beard makes the cursor move all over the place and messes everything up. Lucky for him he’s super cute.
This is my favorite picture of him, taken when I was home sick one day and trying to watch a movie in bed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandi_an/151445551/in/set-72157602322078972/
That Burger… he is so evil looking!! LOL. What a cutie. Yes, I have a cat and whenever I lay a newpaper or magazine down flat he immediately comes over and sits on it. And yes, when I am typing at my computer he walks back and forth in front of my face and sometimes just plops himself down right in front of keyboard.
Dude – sweet kicks…nothing is better than a broken in pair of chucks :) and as if you didn’t know – Burger is soooo darn lovable. He has a stray appendage on the keyboard and a wee paw on my heart…he puts the wow in chihuahua!
Oh, so cute! I love it how their litle paws poke out in random directions when they snooze.
Now, on that annoying habit thing! My cheeky puppy gets annoyed when you read magazines or catalogues instead of paing atention to her…so she lays down on them. If you read them on your lap, she sits on them!
Its so cute though..how can I complain!
When reading this post, i felt compelled to comment. My partner and i have two cats. Ruby, who always walks over my keyboard whilst im working and Leo who regularly sits on Deans lap when he is reading the paper. We were discussing what to call our future dog last night which is to be a Boston Terrier… name yet to be decided.
My fiance and I decided if we ever get dogs (unlikely, since I’m allergic), we’ll name them Grizz and Dot Com, like the characters on 30 Rock. Even greater because they’d probably be little teeny Westies or dachsunds with those big names.
I’ve got two cats. One of them loves to hide under the newspaper as it’s stretched across the table. The other likes to sit in front of whatever I’m reading when I’m laying on the couch.
They also enjoy being right up close and personal wih crafts and sit right in front of the monitor when I am on the computer.
What a fun post! I’ve got two kitties and they make any task more difficult. One “chases” the mouse cursor as it moves across the screen, and God forbid I try to read in bed… she will come and lay between my head and the book or better yet, lean against the book until she pushes it over, then get ON TOP of it. I haven’t been able to finish a book in two years. The other lies on her back in the middle of the kitchen floor while I’m cooking, despite me having backed up onto her tail multiple times. I guess I should take it as a compliment, that she’s willing to risk pain for a bit of my cooking… right? ;)
Our 55 pound Doberman/Lab mix likes to sleep on the bed, right in the middle. He growls if we even so much as brush up against him. Moving him is like moving a mack truck!
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I have a cat that loves to lay down on the keyboard. I’ll be in the other room and hear the sound of a key being held down. My wife and I laugh and say that he his working.