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The cats like to play table hockey after we've gone to bed. This seems
to consist of chasing each other over the dining room table! Anything on
the table gets knocked out of the way. Don't know how they score points
though LOL

Left the Pfaff on said table last night...It was on its back this
morning (on some thick padding) and fortunately not on the floor. Ran it
through its paces and all seemed to be well.

Had it been the old all-metal Pfaff the cats wouldn't have been able to
knock it over at all; that sucker was heavy.

Umm ... why not just banish them from the dining room at night? They
shouldn't be on the table anyway (eeeuw). My cats have always been
packed off to bed in the kitchen, with the option of going out through
the catflap if they want to play.
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Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between
kitchen, dining room and living room.