How do you get a cat to not scratch up the furniture?
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get a pack of those "party favor" waters guns, they are tiny. Fill them up and just leave them laying around, squirt the cat when it does it, it'll learn.
Anubis
No Lifer
the watergun thing usually works and they also sell little plascit corner covers for couches etc that the cat cant scratch on and after awhile of failing to scratch the couch u can remove them and it wont scratch it anymore.. in theory
Doesn't work on my cat :frown: He seems to like water for a strange reason. He'll lie down in my bathroom sink whenever he gets a chance and refuses to budge. Usually I'd have to drag him out. Once, I thought I'd turn on the tap to get him out but he just laid there till the water was practically covering him. Then he ran out and made a mess. Grrrr
It looks really tacky, but put aluminum foil on the corners of all the furniture for a month or two. Cats hate aluminum foil for some reason.
Sounds exactly like my cats.. both of them when im in the bath have to sit along the edge and dip their paws into it and splash. The water gun method never worked.. I declawed them.
DrPizza
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I'm not sure if they make shock collars for cats or not... if they do, they're a lot less expensive than replacing furniture... My golden retriever was pretty much saved by having a shock collar... he was almost history (fighting with the other dog, damage to things in the house)... 3 shocks, then just the warning beeps was sufficient to train him. Complete change in behavior in just a couple days.
DO NOT DECLAWS THE CAT. Declawing is essentially multilating them... they cut off the tips of the paws... how would you like the tip of your fingers cut off? It's cruel to them, and some states have already passed laws that makes them illegal.
Get a scratching post, and put catnip on it.
Get a scratching post, and put catnip on it.
Yeah, declawing is a very controversial subject. It is actually illegal in some European countries. If you let your cat outdoors at all don't declaw, it leaves them defenseless.
I don't know about cats that much (know much more about dogs) and how they can be trained. Is there something that would "scare" them when they try to scratch the furniture? Like a loud noise you can make when you catch them in the act?
I don't know about cats that much (know much more about dogs) and how they can be trained. Is there something that would "scare" them when they try to scratch the furniture? Like a loud noise you can make when you catch them in the act?
You don't even need to scare them... just push them off the chair if they're on it. My cat wreaked only one kitchen chair, now she doesn't scratch anywhere but her scratching post. Believe me, they would rather scratch on a scratching post than a chair anyways... wood feels much better for them then fabric.
You can buy sticky strips of what is basically double sided tape, the cats won't want to scratch it and you won't see it on your furniture unless you really look.
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