At present, the most popular way is to roll cats at home. Many urban white-collar workers are used to keeping a cute pet at home, so cats have become one of the first choices for pets. Many friends who have just raised pet cats will complain that the cute cats at home often scratch the furniture at home. In fact, it is the cat's nature to scratch things, which is the way to occupy the territory and leave smell, which is also taught by the ancestors Their natural way to trim their nails. If you want to improve these "bad habits" of cats in the eyes of human beings, the best way is to create a suitable environment for cats, which can easily protect their beloved furniture.
Cats often pick and scratch when they stretch, and they usually like to grab in the same place, which is not a good thing for our furniture, because the cat's claws are too sharp, so it is easy to damage our furniture and cause serious losses. So how can we prevent cats from scratching furniture?
Before training, a wooden post should be prepared, which is 70 cm long and 20 cm thick. It should be upright and fixed near the cat's nest to facilitate the cat to scratch. The wood column should be solid in texture.
Training should start with kittens. During the training, the kitten is brought to the wooden post, and the cat's two front legs are grasped with both hands, and placed on the wooden post to simulate the cat's scratching action, so that the secretion from the glands on the cat's feet can be painted on the wooden post. After a lot of training, coupled with the smell of secretion, the cat will go to the wooden pole to scratch. Develop such a habit, it will not pick on the furniture, so as to protect the tidiness and beauty of the furniture.
For cats who have developed the habit of picking furniture, when training, they should first cover the outside of the scratched parts with plastic boards, boards, etc., and then place a solid wooden column or board in the appropriate position in front of the picking parts. You can use the same method to train cats to scratch on wooden columns or boards. After the cat has formed the habit, slowly move the wooden pillars or boards until you have the place in your mind. The distance of moving the board each time should not be too large, 5-10 cm is appropriate, and should not be done too quickly.
Training cats is different from training dogs. It may take us more time. This requires the owners to have enough patience to educate them. After a long time of training, I believe that cats will be able to get rid of the bad habit of scratching furniture.
1: Learn about the habits of cats
If you have furniture that has been scratched by a cat, please observe the relationship between the furniture and the cat's work and rest. Usually, the cat will stretch after getting up, and then grind its claws to strengthen the smell of the territory. So the furniture along the way can suffer.
2: Observe the cat's work and rest, and then layout
Observe where your cat likes to sleep most? Where does he like to go and play every time he gets up? Which furniture does he like to grab most? Then put a cat scratch board next to his resting place, and also place a cat scratch board on the route he must pass after getting up and beside his favorite furniture.
Only by understanding the cat's habits and improving it can we get rid of the problem of cat scratching furniture.
3: What if you put a cat scratch board but the cat doesn't scratch?
If you set up a cat scratch board but it doesn't work, please go back to step 2 and make sure that the location is in line with your habits.
Secondly, make sure that the scratch board is a cat's favorite material: each cat likes different things. Some cats like hemp rope, some cats like corrugated paper, and some cats like carpet or leather. You can see the clues from the furniture they like to scratch.
Then, please make sure that the direction of the cat scratch board is consistent with the furniture that the cat likes to scratch. For example, if your cat's claw board is flat on the ground, but the cat likes to stand up and scratch the sofa, it's not in the right direction. Some cats like the sense of horizontal grasp, and if you put a hemp rope pole, it's not interested. Some cats like vertical scratching. If you put a horizontal cat scratch board next to the sofa, it will certainly continue to stand up and grab the sofa.
4: What if you see the cat scratching at the furniture?
The first step, of course, is Hold on! Don't scold and pretend you didn't see it.
After the cat has finished catching, try to cover the area where it has been caught, and then go back to the second step mentioned above, place a suitable claw board beside the cat, and reward them when the cat goes to use the claw board. After they get into the habit, they can take away the cover.
According to the above steps, we can easily solve most of the random grasp problems. Finally, remember to replace the cat's scratch board regularly to keep "scratch feeling".
Finally, we do not recommend that we use odour spray. If we understand the habits of cats, we can build their love environment without improving the dislike of furniture by repelling cats.
