Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Mymblesdaughter on August 06, 2013, 10:40:11 AM
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Buffy really likes to scratch furniture and door posts. They have scratching posts and I let her scratch the wooden trolley in the kitchen but I've just brought a really nice chest of drawers for the bedroom and she has started to try to scratch the front of them. I can tell her off when I'm there but I'm worried it's going to get wrecked. Does anyone have any good ideas to stop her? I looked at the sticky pads you can buy but I think they are for soft furnishings and might damage the chest. There is also a spray you can buy that cats don't like.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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If she's a vertical scratcher you could prop a scratching pad up against the new piece? Just a bit of old carpet glued to a board would do it, perhaps? You can buy them too, think I saw one on Zooplus. If you rub catnip into the fibres she'll prefer this to the wood.
Don't forget that scratching is also a means of scent marking, I read that they have scent glands in their paws and scratching distributes this, so they don't see scratching as norty, simply making themselves at home.
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Ours love scratching vertically so we got those cardboard cat scratcher which they love and they are so cheap to replace!
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:Luv2: Sorry I can't help only say my two wrecked my leather sofa when they were younger, but they don't do it anymore. Nothing we did made any difference. :scratch: