Our kitten/young cat is now 7-months old, and is still
scratching up a storm which is to be expected.
Any chance that she will reduce or stop scratching our
furniture as she gets older?
She also enjoys scratching, kicking, and biting my feet!
-=Grumbler <good thing I'm an easygoing bloke>
Anna - 21 Feb 2006 21:30 GMT
>Any chance that she will reduce or stop scratching our
>furniture as she gets older?
Have you provided her with a scratching post? You can put double sided
sticky tape on furniture - Sticky Paws is available from pet store or
stickypaws.com - she'll touch it and her paws will stick to it which she'll
hate.
>She also enjoys scratching, kicking, and biting my feet!
Kittens will do that. Just walk away when she does it to show her you won't
tolerate it. Don't play with her when she does it or she'll think that is
the way to get you to play with her. Hopefully she'll grow out of it.
Anna
~*Connie*~ - 21 Feb 2006 23:20 GMT
she won't "out grow it" if you do not provide something appropriate for her
to scratch on. Cats routinely use something big and stable to claw, to
remove the sheaths on their claws and to stretch. They also scent the item
to mark their territory. People often give tiny posts, and the cats can't
use those as they need to. Give her something big and stable, a scratching
post at least as tall as your hip. the reason they use furniture is because
it doesn't move.
> Our kitten/young cat is now 7-months old, and is still
> scratching up a storm which is to be expected.
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> -=Grumbler <good thing I'm an easygoing bloke>
deci - 21 Feb 2006 23:41 GMT
One way to 'maybe' stop it is to get a spray cat of feline pheramones,
sold for just this purpose - Never worked with ours until we got 2
large scratching posts - tall enough for them to to stretch their
spines. The cobination of the two things seems to have stopped it.
Now they just strip the wallpaper off outward pointing corners :(
http://www.black-cat-gfx.co.uk/
"A cat is only technically an animal,
being divine" - Robert Lynd
Michael Rhino - 22 Feb 2006 02:00 GMT
> Our kitten/young cat is now 7-months old, and is still
> scratching up a storm which is to be expected.
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> She also enjoys scratching, kicking, and biting my feet!
They say that you're not supposed to hit cats, but at one point I decided
that I had to defend myself. It worked. She was smart enough to figure
that one out. Keeping her claws trimmed also helped.
LMR - 22 Feb 2006 03:12 GMT
>They say that you're not supposed to hit cats, but at one point I decided
>that I had to defend myself. It worked. She was smart enough to figure
You could have used a water sprayer and gave him a little shot of water as
cats, as everyone knows, hate water, but instead you chose to use violence
and make him fear you. You must be so proud of yourself.
LMR
Michael Rhino - 23 Feb 2006 06:12 GMT
> >They say that you're not supposed to hit cats, but at one point I decided
>>that I had to defend myself. It worked. She was smart enough to figure
>
> You could have used a water sprayer and gave him a little shot of water as
> cats, as everyone knows, hate water, but instead you chose to use violence
> and make him fear you. You must be so proud of yourself.
I never sprayed my cat except for one time when she jumped up on the toilet.