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My cat gets into all my wargaming things, so I was wondering what pets do to affect your game?

My cat once flipped over my table (2 pieces of 2X6 polystyrene). I lost over half of my SM and had to re-make the table.

everybody knows cat loves warhammer thats why my cat must be out before we play, but i think only cats have that fixation

beware of the furry beast!

I thought my minatures were safe from my fiance's cat. Untill I learnt jumping up to an open window six feet above the ground was no obstacle for a cat. :(

One of my cats ate half a pot of boltgun metal, but thats the worst so far.

They are both very good at not bothering me while painting

My cat likes to snooze under my daylight bulb while I paint at night. It just wouldnt be painting without having to pick out the occasional cathair.

My cat almost some drank paint.

My cats don't bother me whilst I'm painting, but the younger one (age 9, older one is 16 so he can't be fethed with toy soldiers) luuuuuurves messing with games-in-progress. When I used to live with my dad and I had to play floorhammer due to not having a suitable table, Catzilla would frequently come and tread on some marines, or swat a daemon prince over.
It happened so frequently that Catzilla attacks became part of my house rules.

Any model knocked down is destroyed, and anything the cat moves is now in that location. Led to some really funny games!

Ktulhut wrote:My cats don't bother me whilst I'm painting, but the younger one (age 9, older one is 16 so he can't be fethed with toy soldiers) luuuuuurves messing with games-in-progress. When I used to live with my dad and I had to play floorhammer due to not having a suitable table, Catzilla would frequently come and tread on some marines, or swat a daemon prince over.
It happened so frequently that Catzilla attacks became part of my house rules.

Any model knocked down is destroyed, and anything the cat moves is now in that location. Led to some really funny games!

I play floorhammer! My fat cat fell asleep on the first model I glued together, and the first one I re-glued.

My parrot just gets angry that I'm playing and screeches every once and a while. I've heard enough horror stories of parrots running rampant to be wary of letting him spend that much time in the game room.

My cat takes great pleasure in occasionally stealing one of my miniatures and hiding it in the darkest corner of the house.

warpcrafter wrote:My cat takes great pleasure in occasionally stealing one of my miniatures and hiding it in the darkest corner of the house.

Mine does that with jigsaw puzzle pieces. He gets jealous of the amount of attention paid to the puzzle instead of being lavished on him. He knows better than to do it with minis though, he tried it once and got the water pistol as a result.

One of my (at the time) six week old kittens was relocating my kroxigars to the other end of the house. I was rather impressed.

ZF-

Rodney the Shanker has tried to drink some of my paint. He eats dead animals he finds...is there a relationship?

Frazzled wrote:Rodney the Shanker has tried to drink some of my paint. He eats dead animals he finds...is there a relationship?

Only because he belongs to you.

One of the cats managed to pick up a Russ in it's mouth and proceeded to carry it around, rather proudly, for the next hour.

My dog chews on dice....

He got ahold of a mini once, but a trip across the living room floor via my foot taught him not to play with those.

My last cat loved to eat my models. She went away after leaving many permanent scares on my arm, and pissing all over me.

My newest cat is mostly ambivalent towards them. If she knocks one over while walking by, she'll bat at it like a toy, but all in all isn't to bad with them.

My dog has never gotten into my models, so no worries from her.

Seemed to be a lot of Cat owners here.

One of my cats likes to drink the water for my paint brushes. Since I paint with a lot of metalics, I now cover it up. One time, I left the room while touching up some Black Templars. As I'm walking back towards the room, I see little black spots on the carpet every foot or so. He had jumped up on the painting table to drink from the water glass and placed his front paw in my painting pallet, getting black paint on his front paw.

Honestly, I clean his water bowl twice a day. Stay out of my nasty paint water, stupid.

Neither cat will jump on the gaming table while we are playing. But my other cat REALLY likes the red whippy sticks that came in Assault on Black Reach. If you leave any part of it hanging over the table edge, he will jump up and grab it. This has launched a space marine in the air.

He's also the one makes a B-Line for my photo booth EVERY TIME i set it up. he must be a painting critic:

My dog kicked a bottle of the green wash onto my pants... I think he wanted to go on a walk.

I have since trained him to lay along my side when I sit on the couch to paint since occasionally he 'loses control of his limbs' and spazz's.

And yeah I sympathize with the water drinker problem. My dog always has filtered clean water to drink but wants to drink my dirty painting water??? I had to get a lid to place over it if I get up even for a second.

Yeah i dont get the dogs and nasty water thing...

I used to always notice my dogs water bowl was completely full, then i would go to the bathroom and the toilet would be empty...

My cat , usded to have 2 but one gone insane , maulded 2 of my chaos marines before crushing the other under her paw they now worship her as Nelly the skull crusher , the bone ripper and the limb ripper.

Dirty water smells interesting. And Dog's are pretty daft creatures!

Worst I've had in an inquisitive nose appearing at the edge of the table, sniffing, then disappearing.

My old housemates cat, Oscar the Bastard, once mistook my basing tin full of sand for a litter tray and did a massive poo in it.

I was not impressed.

squilverine wrote:My old housemates cat, Oscar the Bastard, once mistook my basing tin full of sand for a litter tray and did a massive poo in it.

I was not impressed.

I am. He may have to be made an honorary Team Wienie Legionaire.

Frazzled wrote:

squilverine wrote:My old housemates cat, Oscar the Bastard, once mistook my basing tin full of sand for a litter tray and did a massive poo in it.

I was not impressed.

I am. He may have to be made an honorary Team Wienie Legionaire.

Yeah it's always funny when it happens to someone else!

The thing is this cat was abnormal, it's poo's were human sized and stank like a tramps undercrackers.

You've not seen Tbone. Its scary.

my dog wanted to play xbox since my flatmates and i where attached to that darned thing all the time, when she saw a pad on the floor she just sitted with the pad between her paws lol then stare at us like saying "im cool too, i also play videogames it was so fun and remember

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My cats have never interfered with the (very very little) painting and assembling I've done, but then again they are usually outside.
But every time I wanna do something semi-serious on my xbox, I have a kitteh in my lap trying to press the buttons for me...

On another note, how many people have considered armoring up a kitten as a squiggoth and letting it loose on a game board?

All these stories have brought back happy memories of my dog.
She was an outside dog so the worst she ever did was bark play with me when I was out base coating.
RIP Lady.

My cat is addicted to paint water. He also likes the water out of the toilet too. Little weirdo.