We have 3 dogs and 4 cats. Most of the cats don't mess with me while I'm sewing (but you can't leave the quilt unattended or you WILL have to shoo them all off!) but one of them loves to watch the thread when it's feeding into the machine. Yesterday, he decided he'd "help" me by chewing on the thread while it was going!! I guess he needed to floss his teeth!
My husband kept saying "Jack, you'll die back there". I said he'd be the first cat to find out what it's like to be quilted!