Cat Furniture, Cat Toys

No they torment them though?
Get a good cat scratcher….I did.
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I’ve had many cats and have tried several different things. One of the easiest ways to get them to stop scratching furniture is to get them a scratching post. You can make it yourself with a board or post, carpet or sisal rope. You can also buy one from walmart or a local pet store (you don’t need a really fancy one). This will give the cat a place to scratch without using your furniture. If you do this, anytime the cat scratches anywhere else, just pick them up and take them to the post.

Another thing you can do is discipline them to not scratch. I’ve had good luck with this on my latest cat. Ever since she was a kitten she wanted to scratch everything. I researched cat behavior and found that mother cats hiss and pop kittens on the head when they do something wrong, and it has been verified that doing the same for any cat will teach them to not do what they are doing. You don’t want to hurt them, just make a hissing sound when they scratch and if they don’t stop, then just walk over and gently pop them on the head. If you do this consistently (everytime you see them scratch) then you should see results in a week or two, and they should almost completely stop after a month.

I’ve never heard of sprays that do that, but I doubt they really work. It sounds like something similar to spray for puppies so they don’t mess everywhere, but it works about as well as cutting a yard with safety scissors. Besides, your cat will probably appreciate the attention more than you realize.

I hope this helps.
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Yes, if you don’t want your cat to scratch the furniture you have to provide him with an alternate place to sharpen his claws. However, where a cat scratches has to provide him with a good place to really dig in his claws and stretch. Cats will just about hang their weight on their claws in order to remove the outer layers, so a scratch pad, if it’s kind of small and either not sturdy in and of its own weight (like a cat tree) or not attached tightly to a wall, will just not give them what they need. If what you’re talking about IS a cat tree and he still doesn’t like it, try either rubbing catnip on it, or spraying it with a catnip spray. Not every cat is attracted to catnip, but if your cat is one of the ones who DO like it, it might make the scratch pads more attractive to him. The preventive sprays that are based on pepper tend to work to repel cats, but if the urge to scratch is really strong and he doesn’t feel like he has an alternative, he will still scratch the furniture even with the spray. The trick here is to give him a more acceptable scratching alternative than your furniture. By the way, just as a general rule about cats – telling a cat NO without giving him an alternative won’t work. If he feels he needs to do something, he’s gonna do it whether you like it or not – you have to provide him with another solution to the problem. If you’re not happy about something he’s doing, you have to come up with a way to fix it that will be acceptable to him as well. One more thing……if he is scratching the furniture as a protest about something he doesn’t like (like, you moved to a new place, you have a new partner who is spending a lot of time in your home, you bought the wrong kind of kitty litter and he doesn’t like it,etc), you will have to find out what is bothering him and correct it before he will stop. As every human companion to a cat knows, he owns YOU; you don’t own him.
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