 Purred: Wed Oct 22, '08 11:20am PST |
 | |  | | Hi! I am fully declawed, so I do not have a scratching problem, but all my Kitty relatives do, and Momma has 3 scratching posts/climbing areas for them to play on. They still scratch the furniture, on occasions, and the doorjambs have also become "victims", because of their "rough" texture. (I still "paw" at these things, it is just a Kitty's "nature" to do this! Momma calls it "Puddy-Paws", when I do this! )
Momma also wants to stress that she was NOT the person who did this to me; my former owners, who dumped me out "unceremoniously" at a fast-food place, did this to me.
Look at it as "ARTWORK" ! Refer to a book called "Why Cats Paint" (a Theory of feline aesthetics) by Heather Busch and Burton Silver. In it is an entire chapter, about furniture shreedding as "art", and there was actually a Los Angeles Exhibition of Feline Process Art, in 1993! Maybe you just need to play more, with the Cat, or provide him/her with a taller, more "climbable" scratching area.
The "Soft Paws" can be put on by your veterinarian, under sedation, but they do not always remain on, as the Cat will try to chew them off, or they will come off "naturally" as the Cat's claws grow out, or they continue to scratch at the furniture/woodwork.
Good Luck!Edited by author Wed Oct 22, '08 11:22am PST
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