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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / February 2004cat climbing curtains
My 10 month old kitten has just started to climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. Trim her claws regularly and provide a turbo scratcher for her to scratch. This can be purchased on line. Gail > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have > yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have > yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. Do you have a tall cat tree? Sounds like she would really enjoy it, and it would be more fun than curtains. I think *i* would rope the curtains back for now and continue to train her to use other things for scratchng until I could get a tall tree. Take a Look at MaryL's post and see her tree. Yes, a tree like that costs a bit, but they last forever and get a lot of use. It'll save you money in other ways as the cat *will* use it for scratching. Karen JANET <JHODSON@webtv.net> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. > I have yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. She's not climbing. It's just static cling. ;) << My 10 month old kitten has just started to climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. >> It's good that you don't want to declaw her as that is a very cruel and painful procedure. The suggestions of a cat tree and tying your curtains back are very good. I would imagine that this is a stage which she will outgrow soon so you just have to keep the curtains out of her way until then or redirect her energies to something else, like a cat tree. I believe Wal-Mart has some fairly cheap ones, only about $30. At least that is what I have read on this newsgroup. They are not of wonderful quality but they'll work for awhile. At some point, she will just be too big to do it as the curtains won't support her weight so she'll stop. My youngest cat used to climb the shower curtain when she was little but she stopped when she got older. Of course, curtains are generally more expensive than shower curtains and I can understand you don't want them trashed. I would definitely tie them back or even take them down for a couple of months. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. Sounds familiar.... I know another poster who had the same problem (the cat wasn't the problem, the owner was) - the owner was just too lazy, inept and selfish to train her cat -- and then rationalized (IOW, conjured up self-satisfying reasons) that her curtains were more important to her than parts of her cat's anatomy... so she had all *ten* distal phalanges of her cat's forelimbs *amputated* at the joints.... and justified it! I have > yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. http://maxshouse.com/facts_about_declawing.htm http://maxshouse.com/understanding_scratching.htm http://www.catscratching.com/ Pay special attention to the placement of the scratching posts. Good luck. Phil > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have > yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. If all advice given by others fail, perhaps vertical blinds might be an option? > > My 10 month old kitten has just started to > > climb my curtains and I don't want to declaw her any suggestions. I have > > yelled at her and have used the squirt gun. > > If all advice given by others fail, perhaps vertical blinds might be an > option? That's an excellent as well as the most *humane* solution! Modify the *environment* to suit the cat -- not the cat to suit the environment. Phil Janet, I have two cats who are 9 months old with the same problem. I have beautiful lacey curtains and underneath that off-white mini blinds (covers a large area in my living area). The cats have destroyed the mini blinds by running in and out of them even though I tried the squirt bottle so now I just pull up the blinds halfway and let them have fun. My husband wanted to buy another set, but I told him to let's wait and see if they grow out of this phase and then spend the $30 for new blinds. As far as the curtains, I have pulled them to the side and out of the way until they grow out of this stage and also purchased the cat tree from Walmart, which runs about $30 and has catnip built into it which attracts them to the tree. This has actually worked out better than I thought it would. Since I bought the cat tree, they have stayed away from my curtains and mini blinds. Declawing won't even be considered. I think the main thing is having plenty of kitty toys and trees to play with! Try the cat tree and also, I noticed that the cats were only going crazy like this and climbing up my curtains when they were "bored"....and they liked to do it at night while we were sleeping so before I go to bed my husband and I play with them a lot to let them burn some energy. Mini blinds are hopeless though. I've already had to replace my son's twice and like I said the ones in the living area are ripped up, too. I've given up using the squirt gun, they love getting wet! Good luck!!! Christina > Mini blinds are hopeless though. I've already had to replace my > son's twice and like I said the ones in the living area are ripped up, too. > I've given up using the squirt gun, they love getting wet! Good luck!!! > > Christina I can relate to what you say about mini blinds, that's why we switched to verticals. >> Mini blinds are hopeless though. I've already had to replace my >> son's twice and like I said the ones in the living area are ripped up, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I can relate to what you say about mini blinds, that's why we switched to > verticals. Which are way easier to clean anyway! I'll have to try the vertical ones then thanks! Chris *Which are way easier to clean anyway!* A word of caution: Make sure all blind and curtain cords are tied up short so your cats can't get their heads and legs caught and tangled. Many cats have been strangled to death from getting caught in dangling curtain and blind cords. Many other cats have undergone amputation of a limb as a result of severe necrosis caused by ischemia -- blood flow to the limb cut off by a tangled curtain cord resulting in tissue and cell death.
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