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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:	Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:	FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:	MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO

Created:	Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5089
Total number of notes:	60366

1618.0. "Cat Repellent/Furniture Scratching" by TUDOR::ERYN () Thu Aug 04 1988 10:50

    Is there a "best" brand of cat repellant? We are getting new
    furniture, and since my siamese especially has destroyed the
    old couch, I know they are interested in scratching
    furniture. I am planning to cover the furniture when we are
    not there and spray it with a cat repellent, to put their
    scratching post in a very obvious place, and spray it with
    catnip spray (providing I can find something like that). I
    was wondering if any particular brand of cat repellent works
    best or is easier to use than any other, and welcome any
    reactions to whether my plan will work or not. My husband
    and I are not home during the day so just trying to train
    without taking other measures does not work (it results
    in destroyed couch).

    Eryn Utz

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1618.1	a suggestion??	SKITZD::WILDE	Time and Tide wait for Norman	`Thu Aug 04 1988 13:54`	7
	IF your cat has a habit of taking on one particular spot of the furniture to scratch....and that is a big IF...you can get one of the new sisel covered cat scratch posts and place it in front of the likely location, thereby getting the cat to use the post and not the furniture. However, that is only if your cat scratches in the same place every time. I'm allergic to most repellents so I have no input on the "best" brand....frankly, the ones that I've smelled are ugly enough to keep ANYONE away.
1618.2	Did you hear the one about...	JULIET::CORDESBRO_JO		`Thu Aug 04 1988 20:30`	22
	Did any of you catch the cartoon on the front of Daphne Negus's Cat World in the last edition of Cats Magazine? A woman is talking to her friend while sitting in the living room. She is saying, "oh, my cats never scratch the furniture - they use their cat tree" or something like that. The punch line is that the furniture is metal lawn chairs and wooden crates standing on end... the cat tree is a full size, fully padded SOFA standing on end in the corner of the room. 8^o!! Oh no!! I hope it doesn't come to this with you! PS- if you haven't purchased your sofa yet, we bought a new sofa last year and the little beasties haven't touched it yet. It is made out of florapolished cotton. Either they aren't into Laura Ashley type patterns, or the polished cotton is no fun to shred. Jo
1618.3	I tried for the crates but was overruled...	TUDOR::ERYN		`Fri Aug 05 1988 09:52`	19
	I would love to see the cartoon! I really wanted to get furntiure from a company called "This End Up", but my husband thought it looked like packing crates and wouldnt hear of it. I was attracted to it because only the cushions are fabric, everything else is wood. We did find some nice looking all wood furniture - at twice the price of the "This End Up" stuff! The sofa that is shredded is a polished cotton; the new one is a more textured fake fabric (olefin or some other brand of polyester). It does have some wood on the front of the arms which is their favorite place to scratch, though they will also scratch the side of it as well, now that they have pulled out the carboard padding that was in the front of the arms... I'll try covering it for a while and encouraging the scratching post, and maybe some day I'll be able to take the covers off (probably by the time the child is old enough to get it very messy!). Eryn