Cat people, need some advice
26-03-2009, 07:54 PM
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Cat people, need some advice
I have been offered a kitten but the wife is concerned about it ripping our leather couch too shreds. You know the way they dig their claws into the seats? Our old one at my mums house used to do that but it was a cloth seat. Will it do it to leather??
26-03-2009, 08:00 PM
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Yes they scratch leather.
If you invest in some good scratch pads you should be ok. Don't get the pole ones though, get the ones that attach to walls or lay flat on the floor.
If you invest in some good scratch pads you should be ok. Don't get the pole ones though, get the ones that attach to walls or lay flat on the floor.
26-03-2009, 08:08 PM
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We've got this scratch pad downstairs and a double one upstairs. They're big enough for the cat to stand on and have a good scrat. No problems with the furniture since we've had these, but they haven't stopped her biting off the wallpaper.
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26-03-2009, 08:58 PM
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did the exact same thing! hes quite a good kitten really, has scratched it a few times but doesnt do it on purpose, just when hes fell off hes tried gripping something, a friend of mine said you can buy plastic sheets that stick to the sofa and that stops them scratching it, but i didnt bother!
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Having a scratched sofa should be 125th on your list of concerns and worries.
for me.
26-03-2009, 11:18 PM
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It's not like me to play the forum-cop. But come on, it's not a fucking fluffy toy. You take on a kitten/cat for the next 20 years, in sickness and in health, and your holidays and freedom will for that period be limited by putting the cat in kennels or whatever. You get what I am saying.
Having a scratched sofa should be 125th on your list of concerns and worries.
Having a scratched sofa should be 125th on your list of concerns and worries.
I have two brown leather couches and not one scratch on them from the cats. HOWEVER when they were very young, they were a bit mad, so IF I had,had my leather sofas at that stage, something might have happened to them.
The key is to give them a spray with water everytime they do something u don't want them to. They think its more scary than anything else they can imagine and it doesn't actually hurt them at all. perfect.
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27-03-2009, 06:28 PM
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2 leather sofa's and 7 cats, not one mark. Just make sure they have scratch posts as most cats don't like the feel of leather with their claws. However they do like sleeping on it.
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