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| 3269.1 | Not much help but ... | XNOGOV::LISA | | Mon Jan 22 1990 12:50 | 13 |
| Mt neighbour has a small kitten and a leather sofa plus two chairs.
(Whoops sp, meant MY!). They have trained :-) her not to jump on
the furniture, but they haven't been 100% successful. It still looks
perfect to me, but my neighbour can see the minute claw marks at 50
paces!
Try it or you'll never know!
There are lots of notes on keeping cats off furniture, perhaps you
should take a peek before deciding.
Lisa plus P&P
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| 3269.2 | Some pointers | VAXWRK::LEVINE | | Mon Jan 22 1990 13:01 | 12 |
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I just went back and added the keyword LEATHER to notes with leather
in their title, so typing SHOW KEY/FU LEATHER will give you a place
to start. You might try DIR/TITLE=FURN to find notes where furniture
is discussed, since I've never keyworded that.
For what it's worth, I have a leather chair that has not been damaged
by my cats. But mine are pretty good and don't seem to damage things
and all have all their claws. Now if I could just stop Orson from
eating the wallpaper!
Pam
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| 3269.3 | BTU = Burmese Thermal Units | DYO780::AXTELL | Dragon Lady | Mon Jan 22 1990 13:24 | 6 |
| My cats aren't too hard on the leather chair, but they do cause
some damage to my leather saddles. They like to sit on the saddles
and leave scrathes from the "mounting" process. They might be leaving
the chair alone 'cuase it's not in a favorite basking place.
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| 3269.4 | | WR2FOR::CORDESBRO_JO | set home/cat_max=infinity | Mon Jan 22 1990 15:26 | 14 |
| I would start an all out, do-not-scratch-furniture campaign now,
and start teaching the cats not to claw the sofa you have now.
Then, when you are confident that they know that you mean it, then
go buy your leather sofa. Why let the training start on the sofa
that you want to protect. You can bet there will be an occassional
mistake if they aren't already trained not to use the sofa.
You will have to provide them with an alternative place to scratch,
since it is instinctual for them. If you don't provide one, they
will find it themselves. Also, if you keep the points trimmed off
their nails, they will be less likely to leave "tread" marks in
the leather.
Jo
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| 3269.5 | | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca. | Mon Jan 22 1990 15:59 | 8 |
| I've had the same experience as .3, assuming a "saddle" is a footstool.
I have two leather chairs with footstools. The cats like to sleep in
both the chairs and on both the footstools. There is no damage
except to one footstool, which is a favorite place for territorial
tussles to break out; I think the scratches come from flying leaps
up and down in the process of the latter. That particular footstool
doesn't look very wonderful.
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| 3269.6 | Kittys like to ride! | PFSVAX::PETH | My kids are horses | Thu Jan 25 1990 11:21 | 5 |
| Saddle as in what horses wear! I have had the same problem with saddles
I just make sure there is always a cover on them when they are not on
the horse. It keeps them from getting dusty too.
Sandy
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| 3269.7 | | ROYALT::MORRISSEY | Dezyne Addict | Thu Jan 25 1990 16:37 | 9 |
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Animal-Lovers' Special
From the Seventh Generation mail-order catalog: "Protect and
waterproof your leather. ... Our leather seal is nontoxic
and uses no animal products."
(This was crossposted from another file)
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