Taki is amazing. No matter what she is doing, including sleeping, when she hears the clicking of knitting needles, she is right there. She grabs at the yarn from the skein, and she grabs at the yarn on the needles.
This is problematic. Especially when she grabs the yarn on the needles, because she pulls stitches off the needles. Sometimes, she pulls several rows of stitches off the needles at whatever spot I am knitting. And, I have to undo all of those rows. That is especially time consuming when I am working on a pieces of several hundred stitches across. Very frustrating. I use a lot of loud "nos" but that does not help. But I cannot not punish her. The instinct to play with moving objects, including yarn, is pure cat.
I usually try to finish the row on which I am working, but sometimes, that is counter productive, especially when she pulls stitches off the needle. And, while I am trying to knit, I am fending off Taki, who is scratching my hand repeatedly.
Then, I try to find a suitable diversion for her. She will not be diverted to self play. So the diversion has to be something that we can do together, and that involves string or yarn or cord.
I like playing with my cats, but I wish Taki did not think my knitting was a toy.
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