Guest Blogger: Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends
Working Cats Clock In
After years working long days in the corporate world, I now have the luxury of running my own business from home. My husband also runs his business from home.
Because we are at home most of the day, our two fuzzy little pet children, Sparky and Sheba – are closer to us than any of our pets before. Sparky and are siblings. Sparky is a red cream Himalayan and Sheba is a blue Himalayan. Himalayans have gentle and loving personalities and become very attached to their human parents.
Sparky and are “working” cats. My husband has a large desk and they spend most of the day hanging out on a corner of the desk while he works. We even have a term for it – we say that they have “clocked in” for work.
During the winter the two of them huddle next to our network router, because it is warm. We call it fine-tuning the network.
Throughout the day I occasionally go back and peek in to see the three of them at work. OK, I do more than peek in – sometimes I hang out with them for a while, too. It makes work more fun and less stressful.
Sometimes they need to take a short break from their duties, too. That’s when they go hang out in the foyer for a while. These pictures show them on their “coffee break.”
After all this time with the four of us “working” at home, I doubt that I could ever go back to regularly leaving the house for 10 hours each day to go work someplace else again.
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