Cats and front-lacing corsets

This has been a problem for me since the spring: two of my three cats insist on "helping" me lace my Elizabethan!  With 14 pairs of eyelets to lace in the front, it really does get annoying -and futile - to try to shoo these two off.  Here are the two usual suspects:

Both often try to "help" hubby with his bootlaces in both the morning and evening as well.  I'm sure one will tell you he is helping, while the other will assert that he is "saving" us from these laces.  Being cats, neither will take "no" for an answer!