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I've painted only sporadically so I haven't attracted them, but calligraphy gremlins definitely chomp on ink brushes and calligraphy pens. They like pricey Japanese ones.

This might work better than the medication prescribed to Milhouse of The Simpsons -- "Repressitol."

It's not the year of the Cat but it's the month of the Cat -- in the Vietnamese version of the Chinese taoist calendar they borrowed in time immemorial, they still have the Cat which the ancient China also had before it got replaced with the Rabbit. March 5 through April 3.