This behavior of cats scratching furniture is very common, they usually think it's fun or scratch leather to confirm the territory, but this will be very very easy to cause damage to the furniture and reduce the life of the furniture, here are some effective ways to prevent cats scratching furniture:
1. Provide specialized claw grinding tools: Prepare some claw grinding boards, claw grinding posts or claw grinding blankets for your cat, which can be placed in the areas where your cat frequently moves. Choose claw grinding tools with different textures and materials to meet the cat's preferences
2. Guide the cat to use the claw sharpening tool: when you see the cat ready to scratch the furniture, you can gently bring it to the claw sharpening tool and encourage it to use it. You can reinforce its correct behavior by rewarding it, such as giving petting or small snacks.
3.Use cat repellent odorants: there are some products on the market that can tend to avoid the cat scratching, through some odor to stop the cat scratching . They usually contain odors that cats don't like, and can be sprayed on furniture that you don't want your cat to scratch.4. Furniture protection measures: Cover the easy-to-scratch areas of the furniture with protective film or use furniture protection covers. Choosing material textures that cats don't like to scratch, such as plastic, metal, stone, etc., will allow cats to develop the habit of not scratching
5. Regularly trim your cat's nails: Regularly trimming your cat's nails can reduce their urge to scratch furniture and also reduce damage to furniture. Please make sure to use nail clippers that are suitable for cats and handle them carefully to avoid hurting them.
6. Provide enough entertainment and exercise: Make sure your cat has enough toys and space to move around so they can burn off excess energy. Busy cats have less time to scratch furniture.
7. Cultivate good habits: Start cultivating your cat's habit of using claw sharpening tools when they are small so that they will naturally avoid scratching furniture when they grow up.
8. Enrich the environment: Provide cats with climbing frames, cat nests, etc., so that their environment is more varied and rich, so that they will pay less attention to the furniture.
9. Sofa with cat scratching cloth material: my friend bought a cat scratching cloth sofa, and now it has been used for a year, or so nice and beautiful, a good cat scratching cloth sofa must be very suitable for people who have cats!
10. Sofa protector: I will let my friends to stick the cat claw sticker in order to prevent the cat scratching, stick a transparent anti cat claw sticker. The appearance is smooth, cats do not like to scratch, transparent does not affect the appearance. Stick in the part of the cat likes to scratch, when the cat realizes that the smooth scratch uncomfortable, it will develop the habit of not scratching that place, remove the cat will not scratch the sofa. In addition, you can also cover the sofa with a sofa cover and sofa blanket to protect the sofa. Choose the right color, play a decorative role, beautiful and safe!
11. Shift the goalposts: put a few more cat scratching boards at home, vertical, horizontal, paper, sisal rope, a variety of styles and materials to meet the different needs of cats. Cat scratching boards should be updated from time to time, and after a certain degree of wear and tear, they will not be very usable. My cat especially likes the cat scratching bowl, can fall asleep in the sun, lying down to sharpen the claws, have used several.
Doing the above may help you to avoid your furniture being scratched by cats and cats, thus making it last longer. Remember, patience and consistency are key, and with continued training and guidance, your cat will learn proper claw-sharpening behavior.
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