Business analyst pilot fish is working from home on her laptop when the household cat jumps up on her desk and walks across the keyboard to…well, wherever.

“Soon after, I noticed the mouse on my laptop was not working,” says fish. “Immediately I knew some set of keys had been touched by the feline invader and locked the mouse, but had not a clue how to undo it.

“Next day I got back to the office, ported the laptop and used my wireless mouse. I asked our developers, my fellow analysts and a few random geeky co-workers, but no one knew how to fix the problem.

“I finally broke down and entered a ticket to the local desktop support group with the title ‘The cat killed my mouse’ and included the story. Within an hour, a tech was at my desk asking me to retell the story, much to the amusement of those seated around me.

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