This problem sounds more familiar to me. Cat - keyboard interaction is one of the most destructive, besides cat - carpet and cat curtain interactions..
I've used something similar to teach a kitten I had to not step on keyboards. Just pick them up and drop them on the floor every time they touch the keyboard - they learn that that touching keyboards is How You Fall Off The Desk.
In general yes, though at my home office when my desk is clean my cat walks across it and takes liberty in lying on my keyboard or jumping in my lap whenever he wants. My clutter defends against him :-)
I dealt with it by getting a split keyboard, so the cat can lie in front of me with my arms around her while I type. It's less work than shooing her off the desk every 3 minutes.
The bug was the quantity. Cats that walk around in a place with spilled beer will indeed lick themselves clean, but the amount of beer ingested is tiny.
Imagine getting drunk by licking beer residue off your hands.
One of my cats learned to bump the faucet lever on the kitchen sink when he wanted a drink. Fortunately the sink only overflowed twice but that was enough to make me very serious about not leaving dishes in the sink.
My cat is too lazy for math. She lays next to water bowl with her chin resting on the edge and her paw dangling into the water, then just rotates her wrist to bring her wet paw up to her mouth and licks the water off her paw. Repeat.
My cat annoys me while I'm trying to work. She wants to tip over my mug of coffee or walk on the keys. When I put her on my lap she wants to crawl up on the desk and play with my headphone cord.
I try to do most of my work while the cat is asleep ;)
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