I can definitely understand the problem with cats. I got 5 myself, yes 5 i am a pet person more so than a people person, and they just love wreaking havoc.
Lucky me, i have my workbench in such a state of disarray and chaos that it, by nature, scares them off. I have a 14 pound cat stupid as a sack of rocks that liked to climb up onto the second shelf and sleep in the back, i solved the problem by filling the space though he still tries.
Yeah, you'd
THINK that would work, but no...
Piglet just likes to climb up and sleep there, which is not a problem other than when she knocks things over/off to clear a spot to curl up in:
![](https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/17-03-16-Furballs/i-w65kDPK/0/296da128/L/17_07-22%20Piglet%20bench%201-L.jpg)
But Gilmore, the incorrigible orange male, is not happy unless he's getting into ALL the places he's not supposed to be.
(I'm at 6 total, by the way. Almost wound up with a seventh last weekend, but the stray kitten I was talked into ended up being adopted a few days earlier while I was away on a trip.)
-Pat