Hi all my new kitten is a little horror (bless her!) and doesnt seem to know where she should scratch
. I have only had her for a few days and she is about 18 weeks old. She keeps trying to scratch on the carpet which I would like to stop obviously! I presumed that she may be one of the cats that likes to scratch horizontally instead of vertically, but no, she wont use the nice lovely sissal mat I bought her.
How do I gently teach her where to go? When she starts to use the carpet I say "no", and gently pick her up and put her on the scratch mat but she doesnt seem to understand at the moment.
My big cat even though he was younger when we got him seemed to get it straight off, so Ive never had to teach him as such.... Any ideas?? Im going to get her a normal size vertical scratch post as maybe the big one seems a bit big?
Do you think she may learn from watching my adult cat once they are intergrated properly?
ta, nikki, who does like her carpets......