Cat plus new 3 piece suite.......

xsunnysuex

is not a great combination. My cat Ebby ruined my old sofa by scratching the corners. My mum said to buy some cat pepper? Does anyone know a product I can buy to spray on the corners of the suite to stop Ebby ruining my new one? Any help appreciated.

picklepick

I dont know about cat pepper but usual pepper will do the trick!
If you dont wanna put pepper all over your new sofas, try sticking on some double sided tape. They hate the sticky feeling.

child359

Paws away from Pets at home. It is about £4 but basically long strips of double sided sticky tape. Stopped my two scratching my sofa!!! Worth every penny

xsunnysuex

child359 wrote: »

Paws away from Pets at home. It is about £4 but basically long strips of double sided sticky tape. Stopped my two scratching my sofa!!! Worth every penny

Thanks. I'll pop into Pets At Home tomorrow and get some.

picklepick

Theres not really any need to be pet specific pricey tape when ordinary double sided tape or folded over cellotape is the exact same thing and half the price!

Sagz_2

I trim my cats nails and they have never (touch wood!) damaged the sofas.

mirrorimage0

ours dont like the smell of orange so placed some orange peel under the sofas to keep them away they got the hint lol

zaksmum

We need a new 3 piece suite but my dogs love kipping or just snuggling up on the old one.

Hubby says no point getting one while we have the dogs but it's getting quite tatty now so really do need to replace it. God knows how to keep the dogs off it though. Unlike the cats it's not a scratching problem...just a doggy smell thing and the odd paw/claw mark, especially when they just came in from the rain and one leaps up on the sofa while I'm trying to dry the other one off.

Hope your cats stay off, OP!

Mrs_Z

Hi!

Have you tried providing a scratching post? They are not very sightly I know but worked in our house. The trouble is that once the cats get into a habit of doing their nails on one place - they keep to it - I think it's also something to do with their territory and marking it with scent glands. We learnt this the hard way (sofa with a canvas cover = ruined) - and we were very worried in updating into leather ones, but they did not seem interested in the leather the slighted. We also provided them with a scratching post at the same time which one of them took (the others did theirs outside)!

dizziblonde

If it's anything like our house - the cat will claim one sofa and all humans will have to squash onto the remaining seats, and then be joined by the cat.

Not much help but a water squirter and a scratching post combo sharpish got the message across to ours when we swapped from a relatively claw proof leather one to a fabrich sofa. We've also got the sofa covered in fairly heavy throws as well anyway (cream sofa + black cat) so she can't generally get claws at it - the odd claw wanders close by but now just a sharp call of her name is enough to send her back to the scratching tower for a good claw instead - but she's always been very good at using scratching posts.

escortg3

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A3133&rt=nc&_nkw=cat%20claw%20caps&_dmpt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Cats&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1513&_pgn=2

My daughter got these for the cats claws, they are great