Nowadays, many urban white-collar workers have a cute cat at home. Many friends who have just adopted a pet cat complain that the cat often scratches the furniture at home. In fact, it is the cat’s nature to grab things, it is the way to leave the smell of the land, and it is also a natural way for their ancestors to teach them to trim their nails. If you want to improve these “bad habits” of cats in the eyes of humans, the best way is to create an environment suitable for cats, and you can easily protect your beloved furniture. So how to prevent cats from scratching furniture, you can do this:
1. Understand the habits of cats:
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If you have furniture that has been scratched by cats, please observe, what is the relationship between these furniture and the cat’s work and rest? Usually, the cat will stretch after getting up, and then sharpen its claws to strengthen the site odor. Therefore, the furniture along the way may suffer.
2. Observe the cat’s routine and layout:
Observe where your cat likes to sleep the most? Where to play? Which furniture does it like to scratch the most? Then put a scratching board next to the place where it rests, and also on the path that it must pass after getting up, and next to the furniture it loves to scratch.
Understanding the cat’s habits and improving it can effectively solve the problem of cats scratching furniture.
3. What if you put a cat scratching board, but the cat doesn’t scratch? ?
If you have placed the scratching board but it doesn’t work, please go back to step 2 to confirm whether the placement is in line with your habits.
Secondly, confirm whether the scratching board is a material that cats like: each cat has different preferences, some cats like hemp rope, some cats like corrugated paper, some cats like carpet or leather, you can scratch from it Furniture can be seen.
Next, please make sure that the direction of the scratching board matches the furniture that the cat likes to scratch. For example: If your cat scratching board is the kind that lays flat on the ground, but the cat likes to stand up and scratch the sofa, then the direction is not correct. Some cats like to scratch horizontally, and if you’re posing with twine posts, they’re certainly not interested. Some cats like vertical scratching, and if you put a horizontal scratching board next to the couch, they will of course continue to stand up and scratch the couch.
4. What if you see the cat scratching the furniture?
The first step is of course … hold back! Don’t scold, pretend I didn’t see it~
After the cat is scratched, try to cover the scratched area first, then go back to the second step above, put a scratching board suitable for the cat next to it, and put it on the cat. Reward them when you go to use the scratch board. Once they get used to it, you can remove the cover.
Following the above steps, you can easily solve most of the random grabbing problems. Finally, remember to replace the cat scratching board regularly to maintain the “scratching feeling”.
Finally, it is not recommended for everyone to use scent sprays. As long as you understand the habits of cats, you can create an environment that they like. The problem needs to be ameliorated in a way that makes the cat repel the hated approaching furniture.
