Maybe this is a dumb question, but why do you even have that cat?? He sounds like nothing more than a drain on your resources - what is the upside? Surely there's a bigger glutton for punishment somewhere, willing to take him off your hands for you.
I'm perversely glad I'm not the only one that was getting MAJOR cramps and pain trying to adjust to using the cintique (my back, my legs, my arms and wrists, my brain, etc.) - finally having a keyboard shelf added to my great old desk has helped a lot (now I can put the screen right on the edge of my desk, spin it around, etc., and the keyboard is finally at the right height for my hands - I was seriously feeling tendonitis or something creeping up my right wrist)