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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004Persia scratching the sofa
She gets up on the arm of the sofa and starts that scratching thing, all willy nilly, like she's going to shred it to pieces... but she has no claws except in the back (no debates, please, that's how she was when I was adopted). So I like to tease her - you silly girl, what do you think you're doing? You have no claws! and then I start scratching at the sofa too, except, as you may have gathered, *I* have not been declawed :D She then looks at me like I'm the one who is crazy and walks off in a huff. Jill > She gets up on the arm of the sofa and starts that scratching thing, all > willy nilly, like she's going to shred it to pieces... but she has no claws [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Jill I once had a cat that had been declawed before I adopted her, and she would also use clawing motions like you described. So, I got her a scratching post with soft carpeting on it. She loved it! MaryL >She gets up on the arm of the sofa and starts that scratching thing, all >willy nilly, like she's going to shred it to pieces... but she has no claws [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Jill Stinky, who *has* his claws, will "scratch" stuff *without* them. He just moves his paws exactly as if he's scratching, without extending his claws. I can get him to start doing it, too, but mimicking the motion himself-- he'll jump up wherever I am, and start doing it himself. It actaully looks a bit like what he does in the litter box, which worries my mother, but he has never ever mistaken anything else for his litter box. I wonder what he is doing-- he will do it very vigorously sometimes. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) I am very careful to keep the "girls" claws closely clipped (no piece'a cake w/Sylvie, the Hemingway tux, all those toes) but still once in awhile Maluce will have a go @ that tough saddle-quality leather couch in here....and Rowdy, declawed in front, regularly goes to town "clawing" @ a woven-rattan occasional chair. It must be an instinct, as he sure doesn't have anything to sharpen. : >She gets up on the arm of the sofa and starts that scratching thing, all : >willy nilly, like she's going to shred it to pieces... but she has no claws [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] : claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. : (Aldous Huxley) >I am very careful to keep the "girls" claws closely clipped (no piece'a cake >w/Sylvie, the Hemingway tux, all those toes) but still once in awhile Maluce >will have a go @ that tough saddle-quality leather couch in here....and >Rowdy, declawed in front, regularly goes to town "clawing" @ a woven-rattan >occasional chair. It must be an instinct, as he sure doesn't have anything >to sharpen. I read once that cats "sharpen their claws" because it stretches the whole body and it feels good to them. It's relaxing and they enjoy it. I have to take this opportunity to brag on my four though. They are *very good* not to scratch the furniture. >>I am very careful to keep the "girls" claws closely clipped (no piece'a cake >>w/Sylvie, the Hemingway tux, all those toes) but still once in awhile Maluce [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >opportunity to brag on my four though. They are *very good* not to scratch the >furniture. Scratching is also scent-marking, I've read. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) |
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