The Way To Make Your Cat Quit Clawing Your Furniture

The way to make your cat stop clawing your furniture…

Let them have some thing else to scratch!

We've all experienced that same though in the furniture store… “I love it, however the cat would tear it to pieces!” Cats scratch for a number of reasons, it all depends upon circumstance, but for probably the most part you can’t stop them from ding it altogether, I have found success in giving my cat something much more desirable (from his viewpoint) to scratch. I attempted those short cat scratching posts however it truly didn’t do the trick. He kept knocking it more than and soon stopped utilizing it outright. I got some of these cardboard scratchers and that was a error. After one day there was a mess all over the living space, and he stopped using that as well!

I am a carpenter by trade and figured if I could develop an costly cabinet to get a homeowner I could certainly develop something for myself that my cat would use.

Of course it would need to look good as well as be functional so I though and planned and believed once more. To no avail. The only factor left was to just start building it and see what comes.

So I went into my shop with an open thoughts and looked around to see what I had to work with. Tons of oak plywood. I thought that was quite a bit of overkill to get a scratcher but would make a great tower, And so it started. Following a couple of hours I had a corner cat tower with alternating shelves along with a sisal scratching board in the bottom. I didn’t bother with a finish until I knew it would work so I went correct in to the living space and set ti up. My cat knocked it over around the first jump from the sofa. I tried several versions of a base, but honestly decided that it would need to be so large and unwieldy that I was a lot 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 towards the other ‘solutions’ I went via I left it up for a couple of days to see if his interest waned.

I was ecstatic to find he preferred that to the spot on the back of the sofa he had claimed as his personal immediately after I got it. So I spent a couple of days peeking around the corner to catch him utilizing the scratching board. Success! In a brief time he stopped scratching at something 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 don’t believe something I build will remedy that specific supply of pleasure for him. I lastly got him off long enough to finish it in Dark Walnut with four coats of lacquer on it and it looks much better that I could have hoped, like a piece of furniture instead of a shabby cat scratching tower.

I now have a number of designs along with a effective business developing cat furniture, so whatever you do, don’t quit! There is hope after all.
Author: Ken Gessner, Founder of The Cultured Cat

My custom cat furniture at www.culturedcat.com

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