Cat scratch post to protect furniture?

springer211

on a serious note, it may also help to have a good scratching post. Someone on this board wrote about using a tall scratching post (sorry don't remember who), because cats love to stretch and I have to say that it was very good advice (my cat fully approves).
This is one of the best value scratching posts I found:
http://www.petplanet.co.uk/product_group.asp?dept_id=5831&pg_id=2214

iAMaLONDONER

Treevo wrote: »

You should never de-claw a cat. And if you do I've half a mind to report you to the RSPCA for that barbaric behaviour!

Oh please!

zzzLazyDaisy

My cat has five scratching posts - lounge, bedroom, kitchen hallway, and bathroom - all tall ones so he can stretch when he claws them. When I first got them I sprayed them with cat-nip to encourage him to use them.

He had completely destroyed the stair carpet and a chair in the lounge, but since he's had the scratching posts I have replaced both, and he hasn't touched them.

Spudsey

My cats have two tall scratching posts, one homemade and the other bought cheaply from zooplus. I have also got a scratch mat at the bottom of my stairs and some cardboard scratchers which the cats stand out and claw. That said, Alfie cat still insists on scratching the bottom of my stair carpet as my lounge carpet unfortunately is like a great big scratching mat! Note to self to think more about the carpet next time I purchase one.

daveeeeed

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

get off your high horses people i said as a upmost last resort, i have known a cat to be de-clawed in my area, because the cats claws were deformed and causing the cat pain, i did not realise it was illegal unless medical, because unlike some i dont trawl the parliament legislation ragarding pet claws, now thats established, quite rudely by keyboard warriers who wish to free the world of everything possible to do with animals and thus make it their quest.

I'm sure the RSPCA/police could find a way of tracing someone from their username (which would be linked with email & ISP) if they needed to.
And by the way it's utmost not upmost:
http://grammarist.com/usage/upmost-utmost/

Saving_NOW

The best scratch post i've ever owned is 'the fat boy' it is as the name suggests big, but it is solid and doesn't tip when my cat has a really good stretch and scratch. It has saved my new leather suits and we bought it because the day after my new sofas were bought he had a little go on the sides of them. I was upset that the 'fat boy' cost nearly £40 but I can honestly say it was worth every penny. Be warned though it is huge!!.

Lifeforms

I got a couple of cat trees cheap from an amazon German seller. My cat doesn't venture up them, so frankly having a large one was pointless from that view. However being a large set up it provides stability which is a bonus, anything loose and feeling like it'd fall over and he wouldn't use.

Year and a half old and he's totalled most of the fur covering and sisal wraps, however I'm going to change the posts around a bit an see if i can fix the newer untouched, high ones, with the lower ones he uses. Maybe not the best value, but I'm somewhat dubious about most of them anyway length of time lasting when you've got a cat constantly killing it.

I have two, uk bought shabby one in the kitchen and one in the living room, but I also have an incidental one in the Bedroom. It's an old half king size divan bed base that sits under my own bed to support the metal frame as the cats basically destroyed the middle (and useless imo anyway) support "legs". I often hear him scratching on that at night, so that's well scratched now.

His claws gets trimmed as he doesn't wear them down appropriately, and ends up catching them on things. or me.

I'm afraid one token one doesn't work, and often the cheap flat base, small post are the ones most people buy for scratching then mark their cats as a non-user of all scratching posts. Just like beds, cat's like the one suitable for them.

In the end my mum just screwed a sisal mat to the side door frame where the cats all scratched and that was what they habitually used. That was after they scratched it away and it had to be replaced
Now she has a gigantic tree in the middle of the room, whilst it's not used a lot as a scratching post, both her rescue moggie and bengal love climbing it and the bengal has claimed top bed on it at about 6 foot high. Neither seem to scratch anywhere else, or have a desire to scratch a lot. She is about to get a cat wheel too... >.<