Keep Away

I've learned that using room temperature butter is very important in baking unless the recipe says otherwise.  Room temperature butter makes a huge difference in texture of the final product.  Unfortunately room temperature butter also means having to keep the butter out of the fridge until you need it.  Out of the fridge is cat territory.  Apparently cats like butter.  I've come back to use my room temperature butter to find cat tongue sized parts of my butter missing.  That's right, Duff will lick through the paper to get to the butter.  Now when I'm allowing butter to come to room temperature I set up a contraption that looks something like this: