jdMorgan - 11:33 pm on Mar 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

Several years ago, a cat named "Florida" got onto a keyboard in the algo dev lab, and the resulting 'tweaks' knocked half of our members out of the index... No more keyboard-accessing critters allowed.

It's probably a behaviourally-based policy: Dogs will hang around with their owners, while cats just don't care and will do their own thing without regard to their humans. Also, dogs would be less likely to climb up into the difficult-to-access areas of the building, or onto keyboards.

Jim