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Tips for Cat Scratching Furniture

If you keep pets at home, you must be aware of the fact that pets do certain things at times that do enhance your affection for them. Sometimes their working acquires the gravity of a crime. There are often situations when you get frustrated to the point of leaving your pet outside your home and one such situation when your little kitty decorate your favorite sofa with the marks of her claw, or try to write her name on your kitchen cabinet, tears your favorite bed sheet in her endeavor to remove it, or damage the costly carpet just in the mood of playing.

What is the way out?

Now in your dismay you might have contemplated throwing the cat outside your home or beating it up to your heart’s content. But neither makes for the true solution. Solution lies in the understanding the nature of the problem. In order to deal with the problem, you have to find out the rout cause of such behavior. Then remains a simple task; just eliminate the factors to prevent it from damaging your belongings by scratch marks. You have to try to divert your cat’s enthusiasm of scratching in an area where this kind of feline behavior can be tolerated.

Now let’s discuss about the different factors that induce your cat to leave scratch marks on all sorts of precious possessions of yours.

The cats scratch to outline their territory

So you thought it is only us, the human beings that are so fond of privacy and our own space and those kinds of things? No, the cats are even more conscious about their territorial rights and nature has bestowed them with special scratching instinct to mark their territories. You might have noticed the areas where the cat leaves his signs of existence; it is the easily visible corners of your home. It is the way they like to announce their territory of dominance.

Scratches help the cats to have exercise

As your cat scratches the muscles of its body are pulled and moved and that help your cat to stay in shape.

It is a fun for your kitten

The cats enjoy scratching. If you are the owner of the cat you know it is impossible to stop your cat from doing something that it takes pleasure on. So you can not stop her altogether from the act of scratching. What you can do is to channelize her enthusiasm in a direction, where is fine with you.

Present your cat a proper scratching post

You can find a range of pretty and soft scratching post in the market for your beloved pet. But do not just try to train her how to use it. She will learn herself how to use it. And as she learns it she will scratch it rather than your precious belongings.

Make it a point to place the post in an area where the entire family hustle bustle is going on every time. Do not place it in a remote corner of the home where the cat will not experience any interaction with the other family members. The post must be tall, but secure.

Use your brain

The second method involves making the areas preferred by your cat for scratching unattractive by covering them with cello tape or other materials that does not feel great to scratch.

You can also use some scent that will deter the cat to use that area of the house.

At the end a few more useful tips for successfully dealing with your cat’s scratching behavior.