Damn Cat

Coworker has a kitten running around...god I wish she'd put the little spaz on a leash...

Last thing I want to do is trip on a kitten running around at mach speed...

What kind of environment is it? (Office, retail store, fast food joint?)

Technically, it's against the rules. But we geeks-for-hire don't have much respect for rules :D

I don't mind the cat...but can't she keep it on a leash?

Besides, the kitten's owner is a 'cat-o-phile' and has a bumpersticker saying something about taking her cat from her cold dead hands...

Multiply that disaster by about 1000 and you'll have the kitten on a leash.

I've brought kittens to workplaces, usually retail places, to find homes for them. I also brought a BOX with a lid of chicken wire, just so nobody would step on them.

Most stores I know in Boston had store cats, even stores selling food. The health department usually just looked the other way, since the occasional stray cat hair was a lot less nasty than the alternative, rat and mouse feces, hair and saliva. I always loved seeing RoboCat, Big Momma, The Boss, and all the other store cats sunning themselves in the windows or peeking out of the storeroom.

Don't worry about the kitten, though. Overstimulation only goes so far, and it will soon crash out for a few hours, probably in your lap.

think a wailing, bouncing ball of razors that doesn't stop (unless you grab it and calm it down, which usually involves pain)

on edit: pain for YOU, that is -- not the kitten. just hold the kitten firmly

Unless it's a coffee shop or video store (the two places I've worked where we had "house cats"), it seems a little odd.