How on earth can I stop my cat from clawing my stair carpet , rug & leather sofa! He's 6 & has never done this before but we recently moved & he's agraphobic! Won't leave the house at all! So I guess he's not clawing trees like he used to! Tried a scratch post but he & his mate who's 13 just looked at me as if i was mad!
2007-03-14 08:30:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
just to add .... read 1st answer, would never dream of de clawing poor Alfie .... mallet over the head maybe ...... Joke!
2007-03-14 08:36:40 · update #1
You are going to have to teach your cat how to use a scratching post. Mine had no idea what to do at first. I covered it in catnip to get her interested in it, and then I knelt down next to it and scratched the post in front of her, with my nails for authentic scratching sounds. After a couple of training sessions she eventualy worked out what to do and has now spent years of scratching heaven with her posts.
2007-03-14 09:44:49 · answer #1 · answered by Guenivere 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get him a scratch post, are you in the UK? (£15-30)
You can get them from nearly all pet shops.
If you don't live in the UK, go to your vet clinic and they will give advice on it.
I have just rescued a 7/8 year old cat,, and she has started to claw my carpet on the stairs, but we need to get the whole house re-done so its not a prob at the mo!
2007-03-14 08:36:10 · answer #2 · answered by chloe 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What we did is to get our cats a cheap rug/mat and they use that to claw on.
Everytime they went to claw something else we would stop them and put them on the rug, they soon got to know that they could claw the rug.
And the now leave everything else alone.
2007-03-15 05:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, please don't get you cat declawed!
We had the same problem with our cat, she used to scratch the wallpaper, and sofa.
We got advise to make a load noise everytime she did it.
So from then on everytime she started to claw the sofa I'd clap my hands sharply, and she would stop right away.
It took her a couple months to catch on, but after that she never did it again (but she did still scratch the patio post outside so that might have helped)
Give it a try
2007-03-14 12:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by Fiona I 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he's in all probability by no skill around once you empty the trash for a reason. If I observed somebody throwing away all forms of stuff that i had to consume, i may well be ticked off to! yet that would not recommend i might save attempting to beg. that's a cat. The in certainty have not have been given something to stay for execpt food and interest. might it injury to furnish him a scrap. Why waste it? Do you savor teasing animals?
2016-10-02 03:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like he's depressed or stressed due to the move or something, maybe a vet can give you some sedatives to chill him out for a bit until he gets accustomed to his new surroundings!
Good luck hope he recovers!
2007-03-14 08:43:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you wouldn't want to de-claw them at their ages. Have you tried a wicker basket? Yep, my cat, 4 years old, has been declawed, but still loves to "scratch" her front paws on different things. I have an old wicker basket in my bedroom, that she just loves to "scratch". Your cats are up in years and use to "home". Home is gone now and they are trying to get use to new things. I don't really thing spraying with water or "punishing" them is fair. Ask your Vet...maybe they have a magic formula.
2007-03-14 08:38:17 · answer #7 · answered by janice 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Soft paws, you can buy them at any pet store, they comes in different colors, it's safe and it wont hurt the cat , it cost about 18.95, and please dont declaw your cat, it's cruel, and it will hurt the cat and they need them to depend themselfs.You put them on the cat's claws
2007-03-14 08:34:45 · answer #8 · answered by kitty 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can understand your frustration. One of my cats decided that my husbands new shoes were good for clawing I kept getting on to her but she would always do it again until i decided to beat her *** with them, she doesn't claw them anymore.
Seems to me that your cat has anxiety from moving to a new place. I don't agree with de-clawing tho cause they can't defend
themselves in case of attack.
try this website.http://www.catscratching.com/
2007-03-14 08:45:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
you can buy spray from the vet to stop them but you have to be paitent, rub some cat nip on their cat post you can get that from the pet shop. good luck!!
2007-03-14 08:35:24 · answer #10 · answered by Vickezo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋