Tips On How To Make Your Cat Cease Clawing Your Furniture

The way to make your cat quit clawing your furniture…

Provide them with something else to scratch!

We've all experienced that same though in the furniture store… “I love it, but the cat would tear it to pieces!” Cats scratch for a number of factors, it all depends on circumstance, but for the most component you can’t quit them from ding it altogether, I've found achievement in providing my cat some thing more desirable (from his viewpoint) to scratch. I tried these short cat scratching posts however it really didn’t do the trick. He kept knocking it over and soon stopped utilizing it outright. I got some of those cardboard scratchers and that was a error. Following one day there was a mess all more than the living room, and he stopped using that as well!

I'm a carpenter by trade and figured if I could build an expensive cabinet for a homeowner I could definitely develop something for myself that my cat would use.

Of course it would need to look good also as be functional so I although and planned and thought once more. To no avail. The only thing left was to just begin developing it and see what comes.

So I went into my shop with an open thoughts and looked around to determine what I had to work with. Tons of oak plywood. I believed that was quite a little of overkill for a scratcher but would make a great tower, And so it started. After a few hours I had a corner cat tower with alternating shelves along with a sisal scratching board at the bottom. I didn’t bother having a finish till I knew it would work so I went right into the living room and set ti up. My cat knocked it over around the initial jump in the sofa. I attempted a number of versions of a base, but honestly decided that it would have to be so big and unwieldy that I was much much better of just anchoring it to the wall, so two screws later it was up.

The cat loved it! But to ensure it wasn’t as short lived as his attachment to the other ‘solutions’ I went through I left it up for a couple of days to determine if his interest waned.

I was ecstatic to locate he preferred that towards the spot on the back of the sofa he had claimed as his own instantly following I got it. So I spent a few days peeking around the corner to catch him using the scratching board. Success! Inside a brief time he stopped scratching at anything else as far as I could inform. That is except for his habit of ambushing me when I came around the corner so he could scratch my shin, but I do not think anything I build will remedy that specific source of pleasure for him. I lastly got him off lengthy sufficient to finish it in Dark Walnut with four coats of lacquer on it and it appears much better that I could have hoped, like a piece of furniture rather of a shabby cat scratching tower.

I now have a number of designs and a successful business building cat furniture, so whatever you do, don’t give up! There's hope after all.
Author: Ken Gessner, Founder of The Cultured Cat

My custom cat furniture at www.culturedcat.com

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