Cat damaging furniture

[JDgreen227]

Guys, I have a 2 1/2 year old neutered male tabby cat who is gradually damaging the wicker framed furniture in my living room. He chews on the frames and has done a lot of scratching on the chair backs, and this is despite there being several scratching posts and cat towers in the room. I do not want to have him declawed...does anyone know of a solution I could spray on the wicker frames that would repel him? Weird thing is, the other 3 cats have NEVER touched the furniture. Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Don87]

Red pepper,Tobasco sauce, or spray him with a steam of water(squirt gun).

 

[MossRoad]

Ah, the joys of indoor cats. As a kid, my parents' cats did some serious damage to the woodwork with their claws. My dad's solution... replace the woodwork. :laughing:

I know several people that have a spray bottle and squirt the cat with water each time it even goes near a place they don't want it to. That does the trick as long as you are there. However, cats are very patient. They'll wait till you are asleep then claw away with great joy.

Kind like one of our "boys" that we never see on the kitchen counter. But when we come towards the kitchen in the middle of the night, we always hear a loud WHUMP! and he's siting on the floor in the middle of the kitchen looking innocent!

 

[JDgreen227]

Red pepper,Tobasco sauce, or spray him with a steam of water(squirt gun).

Yeah....but as Mossroad says, it is very hard to catch him in the act of vandalizing.....:laughing: would you think this innocent looking critter could be so destructive?

 

[jerry56]

Try a stuff called "bitter yuck" it smells and taste horrible to them but you can't smell it at all..well I couldn't, we used it on the Christmas tree....worked like a charm...if it is fabric there is a double sided tape thet won't harm the fabric but the cats hate it because their paws stick to it.....
lol...just saw your picture...a red...lol...no wonder...like this little bundle of cutness....I feel your pain

 

[IkeRoberts]

spray furniture with any citrus scented deodorizer. Cats hate citus and will stay away.

 

[strum456]

So, anyway- back to training cats. They sure are a lot tougher than dogs, aren't they. I grew up always having a German Sheppard. Now my wife and I adopted one of our barn cats as a house pet. His body language tells me "I know I'm being bad, but you can't catch me". He gets squirted multiple times a day. I think getting squirted is getting to be a game for him. I was about ready to hook a fence charger to the Christmas tree. That little jackwagon!

 

[Stimw]

I built a nice "A" frame scratchin' post for my two inside Kitties and once in a while I rub some Cat Nip into the carpet on it. Once in a great while I will see them scratch where they shouldn't and I tell them firmly DON'T SCRATCH!! When they are on the post I sometimes tell them very nicely, sugarly "you tear that thing down and I will build you another one". They keep scratching because they know the tone of my voice.
But don't get up to go to the bathroom or I loose my seat in the Lazy Boy!! see pic

 

[RobertBrown]

Yeah....but as Mossroad says, it is very hard to catch him in the act of vandalizing.....:laughing: would you think this innocent looking critter could be so destructive?

it is very hard to catch him in the act of vandalizing....

THAT'S what wives are for.....maybe you should get one....or loose the cat.

 

[MasseyWV]

Red pepper,Tobasco sauce

I tried a mixture of these recently and they actually attracted one of my cats, which eagerly licked it off. Who would have thought... a cat that likes hot sauce!