Pet projects! Employees working from home share pictures of their ‘new colleagues’ as cats and dogs take over their keyboards
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Staff from across the globe, who are working from home as an increasing number of employers attempt to stop coronavirus from spreading, have shared pictures of their bemused pets infiltrating their work space.
Taking to Twitter, the viral thread was kicked off by Rae Paoletta from New York, who shared a picture of her cat giving her an intense look, along with the caption: ‘Help, I think my new coworker is planning to eat me’.
She was quickly inundated with thousands of replies from other users, battling to keep their dogs, rabbits and even rats off their keyboards.
Many joked that their dogs couldn’t understand why their owners weren’t throwing a ball, while others said that their cats had become their new phone assistants, in the cute thread.
Staff from across the globe, who are working from home as an increasing number of employers attempt to stop coronavirus from spreading, have shared pictures of their bemused pets infiltrating their work space. Jamie from Seattle shared a picture of his two confused cats circling his laptop as he attempted to work
Jae from Denver shared a picture of his moggy hovering behind the phone and joked ‘Help, I think my new coworker is planning to eat me’
Elsewhere Twitter user Tom from Baltimore showed the comical expression his cat shared at seeing him work from home
Rachel Mennies from Chicago shared a picture of her pet dog laying down on her diary planner and joked that he was her ‘CFO’
Meanwhile Ann Marie from Manhattan shared a picture of her confused cat staring at the blank computer screen as she attempted to understant why her owner was so fascinated by it
Timothy Davis, from Hollywood, shared a picture of his cat admiring his script and joked: ‘My little dude running lines with me on a rainy day’
Saramaya Penacho, a PR from San Diego, posted a picture of her pet pooch working with her, writing: ‘My six yr old rescue staffy, Luna, and I WFH’
A mother from Portland shared a picture of ‘Ivy the Rattie’ who helps her through the working day at home
Meanwhile Dr. Irina Anna Rose Yakubovskaya ‘Bast the kitten. Not helping anyone to work, just being overwhelmingly cute.’
Elsewhere Lynne Kelly from Texas posted a picture of her dog, writing: ‘Hi what is you doing, is that work? I like work – I’ll help you with work!’
Rae Paoletta from New York posted a picture of her cat and wrote: ‘Help, I think my new coworker is planning to eat me!’
American user Phoebe Juel posted a picture of her rabbit as she worked from home and wrote: ‘Spencer, here for it’
Leah Kashar posted a picture of her adorable pooch, and wrote: ‘This is Butter, she’s doing her best to make some big career moves today’
One American user admoitted their dog Talia didn’t understand why the owner wasn’t throwing a ball for him as he tried to work from home
Becky from Chicago shared a tweet with her dog and wrote: ‘She had to make sure she was closer to me than my laptop Face with tears of joy’