One of my black persians will stand in the back of my machine, and drape his paws across the top of the machine, plop his head between his paws and go to sleep! He is the only one allowed in there (I sew in the living room in front of the TV) and I have a white persian that will "launch" the thread from the spool across the room. I think he is going for a personal best on a distance shot. My Mastiff will just calmly take something off the sewing table, usually my pin cushion. Gotta watch him, he is the thief.