SIG-03 · Desk occupation
The animal settles on a work surface during repeated screen or keyboard sessions. Usually a routine note rather than a device note — the keyboard happens to be where the warm human is.
SIG-07 · Warm device preference
The animal picks routers, chargers, laptops, or set-top boxes as rest sites. We default to a heat explanation unless the observer rules out warmth with a follow-up note.
SIG-12 · Routine cue response
The animal changes location after a familiar household sound: meal prep, a doorbell, an alarm, a chair scrape, a kettle. The cue and the time of day are almost always confounded.
SIG-18 · Pointer tracking
The animal follows cursor movement, scrolling video, or repeated mouse motion during owner interaction. Common with kittens, occasional in older animals.
SIG-21 · Live audio attention
The animal approaches during recurring call tones, speaker activation, or voice-assistant wake words. We try not to call this “curiosity.”
SIG-25 · Transit anticipation
The animal positions itself in a hallway, kitchen, or doorway before a recurring household action. Time-of-day is doing more of the work here than the action itself.
SIG-31 · Novel object
The animal investigates an unfamiliar object in a familiar room. We log these because the timeline of cooling interest is one of the few things the archive measures reliably.
SIG-34 · Vacant-room return
The animal returns to a previously occupied chair or rug after the household member leaves the room. A useful baseline for routine-association cases.
SIG-39 · Print-tray rest
A specific case of warm-device preference, kept separate because we have ten of them and they all read differently from laptop reports.