One of my female cats also loves to scratch the sofas. Unfortunately I think she was the runt of the litter, her sister is much bigger than her, and isn't maybe all there! Since we have moved we keep her out the lounge unless we are there, also putting tinfoil round the arm of the sofa seemed to help in our last house.

She too likes to jump on the kitchen units, spraying water didn't work as she loves water, chases it out the tap and down the drain! She does still go on the work surface but only a certain area which we trained her to do.

Good luck, I think you can both live in harmony.

You can't 'teach' a cat things as you would teach a dog. This is because cats are clever enough to realize there are no real benefits for doing things you want it to. Cats live to please themselves, not their owners.

So what you need to do is make the cat WANT to use the scratchpost. Buy a good one, maybe spray it with cat nip spray. And if you see the cat scratching something else, gently pick him up and put him by the scratch post.

DONT tell him off by shouting, or hitting, as he wont understand :S

But whenever he does use the post make SURE you always let him know hes a good boy, speak to him positively with a soft loving voice, and stroke him.

Whatever happens though, EXPECT your cats to damage atleast some furniture. It's inevitable, especially if youg go out to work in the day.

I have an £1800 dining table & chairs, which are ruined! But i dont really care bacause after all, it's a dining table! If the dining table scratched my cats, it'd pay for it!

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He he, hope you have the table under control!

It is now

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Is it just me or is this one a complete and utter w*****!

I'd say pre-menstrual or been dumped for someone younger!

Yeah come on chilito, i'll have some bad rep too if you like

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Im glad its not just me that thinks they are a w***** . Wil probably get more bad rep now

[quote=chilito1970;132547]first off, AJ, you're just an *******. Either offer up some constructive advice or shut the hell up. F-wits like yourself do nothing to enhance conversation with your condescending dickery. Completely classless.

Sorry chilito, but you are way off the mark here. AJ is a responsible pet owner, with a lot of experience, and if you were not such a newbie you would see that he has given good advice on many threads. May I give you a bit of advice? Everyone's opinions are valid, but sometimes you need to look at facts and gain knowledge of the subject before you express them.

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WOW I only just saw all that!

"first off, AJ, you're just an *******. Either offer up some constructive advice or shut the hell up. F-wits like yourself do nothing to enhance conversation with your condescending dickery. Completely classless."

- Right, so what you just did is really 'classy' and helpful.

"Maybe he was having a bad day and needed a little pick me up that can only be had by berating another person with the relative safety and anonymity that only the internet can offer."

- Alot like what you're doing then yes? I believe it's called an E-Thug. Someone who is to pussy to start in real life so feels the need to 'big up' themselves online and belittle others in order to deal with insecurities.
What AJ said was clearly in jest. Where as you are clearly little more than a **** yourself.

What a total ****. Surely this person should be banned. Eveyone that I have ever spoken to on this forum has been very helpful and kind, and people like this have to come in and spoil everything. Also he totally contradicted everything he said! Hilarious. People who have opinions as strong as him often do so as there is no knowledge backing them up, so they attempt to be blunt in an aim to portray a sense of intelligence.

Personally I don't think there is any need to keep people like this on as users.

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Hi Vapor-has she been spayed yet?We are are a friendly lot-honestly-just sometimes people get a little too heated in replying and forget the question

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Im so glad im not on my own on this 1. I was taking brunt of it this morning, some of the things this person said about me have been removed as they were def uncalled for. As you can see from what i have wrote i didnt want to pick an argument with any one but wasn't just going to sit back and be called all the names under sun and not have a say. I was at a stage when i read 1 of there posts that i was about to say i wont bother coming on here any more but then thought why the hell should i let him/her get too me