Use A Good Cat Scratching Post To Make Your Favorite Feline Your Best Friend (And Save The Furniture)
If you have a cat you will know what good company they can be. A cat makes a wonderful companion. It’s the ideal pet for both adults and children. However cats do have some annoying habits and one of them is scratching.
Most cat owners find at some time or another that their cat has this annoying habit. That’s not to say that the cat is scratching the owner, just that the cat is scratching the furniture, and it is usually your favourite furniture as well.
It is so common for a cat owner to discover one day that the legs of the furniture are covered in scratch marks. So why do cats love to scratch? And why would providing a cat scratching pole help with the problem?
All cats love to scratch, it’s perfectly normal. They do it to sharpen their claws. In fact scratching is a perfectly normal part of their behaviour and it’s not likely that you will be able to stop your moggy from doing it. It’s much better to direct their attention to a much more suitable place to scratch, namely a cat scratching post.
How do you do that? You do that by making sure that it is unpleasant for him to scratch the furniture and much more pleasant to scratch the scratching post. A cat scratching post is a piece of cat furniture specifically designed to be scratched so that your favourite feline can relieve his need to sharpen his claws in an appropriate place.
A scratching post isn’t complicated They are usually covered with a simple material such as carpet so that your feline can dig his claws into it and pull away to his heart’s content.
So how do you redirect his attention away from the furniture and towards his scratching pole? Cats respond to positive behaviour from their owners, so don’t punish him for doing what comes naturally. Try a more lateral approach, for example wrapping something around the legs of the furniture to make it less attractive to him whilst providing him with a good scratching post. If he takes the hint and uses the post that’s fine, if not then try rubbing some Catnip on it to attract him to the post.
Training your feline to direct his attention from one piece of furniture to another is sometimes a difficult task, however can be achieved perfectly easily with some patience and perseverance. If you see him heading towards the legs of your favourite furniture with itchy claws then pick him up, take him to the scratching post to see if he gets the idea.
One thing that you should never do is to de-claw your cat. It’s a nasty process and something you should never consider. But it’s fine to trim his claws from time to time just to make sure they’re not so sharp. Once you’ve learned more about those annoying little habits of cats, like scratching, you can redirect his attention quite successfully, keep your cat happy and make him a lifetime companion.
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