Cat Scratch Furniture – The Scratching Post Chronicles

All About Cats And Their Scratching Posts

Shredded sofa arms and legs, torn curtains, and ripped up carpet fibers. If you have any of these in your house, I would guess you have a cat that doesn’t use a scratching post. Maybe you didn’t have the time or the know how to train your cat. Whatever the case it’s not too late.

Although it is preferable to start training your cat when it is a kitten, there are things you can do when your pet is full grown. To start, you can purchase or make (if your have the skills) enough scratching posts to place in front of the areas your cat is using now. Rope entwined posts with a sturdy base is usually your best bet.

If your furniture won’t lose it color or fade with this, you can rub citrus-smelling oil over your cats’ favorite spot to scratch. This is especially effective with molding or doors. Cats generally hate the smell of citrus. Your cat may be one of the odd ones who will just lick it off. If so, you can also use an undesirable object such as plastic carpet runner (pointy side out) aluminum foil, or sandpaper placed over the area you want to prevent your cat from scratching. You only need to leave this on until the cat is using his scratching post consistently. You can make his new scratching post more inviting by using catnip. Take some catnip leaves and rub them on your post.  Also, gently run your cats’ paws over the scratching post to deposit the cats’ scent.

Hang some toys off the scratching post to make it worth a checking out from your cat. Most of all be patient watch your cat and if they want to scratch something off limits, take them to their post and run their paws over it.  After awhile your cat will be using his scratching post and you can start to replace your furniture.

My cats would scratch everywhere and everything. They would completely ignore the scratching post until I used a few of these tips. I bought my post from cat scratch furniture and they happily use it all the time.

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