Same Cats, new furniture. Anything to prevent them from scratching up the set.

I've heard of people using aluminum foil. Just make sure you poke some air holes

Sane? I'm not competent to say, but I have had very poor luck with this situation, even with older cats. Yes, they would use the cat furniture and trees for scratching and stretching. They would also pause for a quick stretch on my really nice recliner.

I would send you to an old cat hand like Margo, but I think Possum has her pretty well whipped.

We do not wrap our cats in aluminum foil.

Well what do you wrap them in then?

Saran Wrap is much quieter, if that matters.

Our cat goes mental with door mats, maybe get one of those. Other than shouting "No" when they go to scratch it and shutting them out of the room when you're not there I don't know what to suggest.

Cats can learn, we have two, Vic and Bob, Bob is the smart one. Vic has just learnt that if he doesn't stand exactly in the spot where I put his food bowl, but gets out of the way, he gets his food sooner. It has taken him 14 years though.

Your cat is smarter than my cat.

His brother, (Bob) is a lot smarter. If he wants to come in he'll get on top of the bins to make sure we can see him. Vic just waits by the back door and hopes for the best.

Thank for all the input. This new furnitur is smll aet of "motorized" flexsteel couch and chair. It fits a certain room really well and Id like to be able to keep it nice.

I was wonering hether any of thoise sprays (along with a couplw of scratch poles ) would be effective.

WE have a Stickley couch in the outer "parlor" and they steer clear of this motly cause its a wood base. That room is done up in a style that a Stickley Arts n Crafts looks fine, but you could get tired of the same stuff all over and we really arent that comfortable on lether sets.


Maybe if I let "Mule" our attack donkey in to take command and apply discipline. Our cats have it too damn good.

years ago we had "lUCKY" THE BOMBAY STREET KITTEN, declawed. he healed up but it was still kinda brutal. So , when w got a Maine Coon, qe tried those plastic nails. She figured those out in a couple of hour nd we were finding little red claws all over the house .

I heard some zoos sell tiger and lion **** to gardeners. Cats smell that and don't hang about, but it's not really for indoor use.

I once had a dog that began chewing serious chunks out a porch support post. I screwed lengths of 2x4 around the four sides and she quit messing with it. Nuff said. Screws/nails, 2x4s.