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Cat / kitten proofing your studio
So, I got a couple of kittens. I have a small cottage home, and my office and music studio will also be the kitten home. They will live here much of the time, including nighttime.
Kittens like to chew cords. Kittens like to knock things down. They bring mayhem and chaos to our world, which is why you have yet to see them in a museum or china shop.
I've taken some precautions by buying .5-inch cord protectors to encase a few instrument cables. This seems like a safe measure. However, I'm particularly worried about protecting my pedals, as well as the dozen jacks and cords that connect to the mixer. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Other than giving the felines away, what have you folks tried that you'd recommend to protect your studio gear?
Thanks,
Joe
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The short answer is, close or lock the door to your equipment and keep them out.
Cats are very curious creatures and you can't keep them from doing what they do naturally unless you have the time and the will to keep them constantly distracted by yourself.
Keep things which can be damaged out of their reach and also immediately get them scratching posts and a something they can climb up and climb down (such as a "cat tree" for indoors). Their survival instinct will get them to try to move to the highest point they can in a room, so you have to provide that to them so they can do it non-destructively.
I wish I didn't know all of this stuff, but I do. And now you know.
Thanks. Yeah, let's make the top elevation something other than my MPC Key 61, though it's well-covered.
Omg, they’re adorable. The ginger one reminds me of Ducky: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C74COUGA45f/
Yeah, cover stuff, maybe try using bitter spray on cables to put them off chewing them, maybe wall mount the cables. Most of all, best to just always keep that studio door closed, keep them out of there. Cat pee could completely destroy a synth, keyboard etc, from what I’ve heard.
So have you had much luck with bitter spray? My wife has doubts. If it has worked, please pass along any specific recommended product names or links.
Thanks!
I've seen nothing that prevents it other than making sure they have scratching posts and other things to distract them. Keeping in mind that most of the time cats are asleep, it's when they're awake that you suddenly discovered they've done something. Keeping their litter box free of all 'deposits' is critical. They will tear your house up if they don't have a clean area there.
I have 4 cats and a dog and they are never allowed in my studio room.
I haven't used it myself, just heard about it, but I wish at least I had tried before my pup are through a bunch of my cables years ago, including completely destroying a pair of good cabled earbuds. I didn't have a dedicated room for music like you do though. Honestly, just keeping them out would be the wisest thing to do, I'd say.
Vacuum lots, too. Cat hair will get in everything.
If you can't lock them out maybe lock yourself in using room dividers. Just found this through YT search which looks kinda interesting, but normal ones might work as well.
Never had a kitten, but from what I heard, I would definitely make the studio a no go area. With my 12 year old Siamese Redpoint, he only gets unsupervised studio access during daytime and when nothing is switched on.
He has a choice between a chair with a sheepskin, a basket and the window sill. However, the moment the computer or the synths are switched on, there is the danger that he will take a nap on the laptop or climb over the other gear.
I had this with other cats too: The moment electronic equipment comes alive, they are attracted to it.
Never leave mics lying on the floor. Many years ago I discovered that cat piss is the one thing capable of destroying a SM57.
Thx for the tips. One thing I’ll do is pull the plugs from outlets after each session.
I've got two cats. My male bob tail spends more time on the MPC than i do. They like sleeping on the Akai but they never go after cables or mess up my gear. My cats are older and lazier than kittens.
Have two cats since they were kittens, one thing to know is it's a bit of a lottery - some cats are very calm and lazy, others destroy all things. Ours are super chill but they do like scratching things, plus they grew up to be really big!
I hear what people say about keeping them out of the studio but a) they might just cause havok elsewhere for not being let in and b) they are so cute you might not want to keep them out
Giving them scratching posts, high places to sit that are better for scratching and sitting than your expensive gear is a good tip! Also teach them when they are young, because it's really hard to train an older cat.
RIP, my prior adult cats did not chew on gear or cables and stayed in the same room as my studio/ office most of the time, including nights. The biggest issue with them was pee. BTW, the Litter Robot is great, until it's not.
Main point is make sure you keep litter clean.
We do not have cat trees at all, and I need to look into that.
Mine mainly was just into climbing as high as she could so I made it as hard as I could, though she always got around it one way or another…
I got a bunch of deck savers for the valuable stuff, or cables on racks as far away from usual places she passed by, and learned to stop worrying and love the fluff…
There’s no way I can close my door on her as she’ll howl the place down like it hurts if I do, but she’s got more chilled with age - although just the other day she made a rare trip to the giddy heights of synth towers, but was less hissy and clawful than previous times 😅
At least I can still sell stuff smoke free household, just not pet free for sure…
Get a really nice couch that you definitely don’t want them to scratch and maybe, when they do scratch it, it will distract them from your studio
This man cats!
Reminds me of the time I found a cat inside my modular synth. He had crawled in and curled up on the power supply behind the modules. I made a cardboard panel to cover the hole that day, my friends.
In retrospect, I wish I had taken a picture. His little head sticking out of the hole between the other modules was really cute. But I was too angry to photograph and instead chastised him severely until he jumped out.