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Four Ways to Protect Your Furniture From Cat Scratching

If you are a cat lover like me, you need to identify how to protect your furniture from your cat’s scratching. Scratching is natural for cats so you would want them to continue. Then becomes an issue of getting them to scratch where you want them to. Here are four tips on protecting your furniture.

1.  Put foil on the ends of your furniture, like aluminum. Cats will not scratch on material like this.

2.  Place double sided tape on your furniture. Cats will shy away from this material, too.

3.   Have a can filled with coins available. When your cat starts to scratch where you do not want him or her to, shake the can loudly. This noise will scare them away from your furniture. Soon they will associate the scratching with the loud noise and stop scratching there.

4.  Offering a scratch pad. If you provide an attraction to the pad, like a toy or some cat nip, they will use the pad instead of your furniture. Cat nip works the best as an attraction.

These are just four methods of stopping your feline friend from scratching where you do not want them to. If you are thinking of de-clawing your cat, please do not do that. That robs your cat of their natural instincts, is very painful for them and may affect their personality.

If you have some other methods to stop your cat from scratching, please provide it in the comment section of this article. I would love to hear of different methods to stop cats from scratching.

I used all of these methods to stop our cats from scratching our furniture, and they worked effectively. Now I just have the Emery Pad which is very effective and do not have to do the root three items I listed. I also stopped hair balls by using a hair brush known as furminator.