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Conference misery::feline

Title:Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
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Moderator:JULIET::CORDES_JA
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1079
Total number of notes:28858

575.0. "furniture protectors" by USDEV::MANNING () Mon Jul 26 1993 11:21

we're looking for help finding couch protectors because the cat has been
using the 'new' couch as a scratching post.  unfortuneately we didn't find
out sooner.

does anyone know a furniture/upholstery type of store where we can find this
item?

thanks.

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575.1some ideasPARITY::DENISEAnd may the traffic be with youMon Jul 26 1993 17:3810
    In many of the cat magazines, I have seen a product, a clear acrlyic
    shield that can be mounted on the couch to prevent scratching.
    There are some other notes in here about this too,  using balloons to
    scare away the cats,  furniture covers, and tape. We tried the tape
    and it helped a lot.  When we got the cat tree, ALL furniture
    scratching was instantly eliminated.  Best purchase we ever made, they
    love having their own place to scratch, and hang out.  Cats need at
    least a scratching post to work off their old claw sheaths.
    
    denise and the gang of 10 (just one that used to scratch)
575.2tin foil, simple and cheap!SALES::LTRIPPFri Jul 30 1993 09:5418
    Attach ordinary aluminium foil to the point where the cat is
    scratching!  They sell something called Upolstry tacks, which is like a
    map tack, but the pin part is like a cork screw, to attach it into the
    furniture.  I told a girl friend about it, and she had to put hers on
    the headboard of a bed.  Sure evoked some interesting conversation
    during her open house a few weeks later.  Try it, it really works, the
    noise scares the dickens out of the critters.
    
    I had also heard mothballs on the floor around the funiture, as a sort
    of repelant, but I can't stand the smell, and am not sure how safe they
    are anyway, so I'd forget that method.
    
    In my house all I have to do is simply pull a length of foil out of the
    box (for cooking), and two cats go running.  (and it isn't even intended
    for them)  Cheap, simple!
    
    It's just like having kids, isn't it?
    Lyn
575.3WR1FOR::RUSSELLPE_STFri Jul 30 1993 14:307
    Foil doesn't work at my house.  I put a sheet of foil over the burners
    on the stove to try and keep Lizette from jumping up there and walking on
    the stove.  She walked right over the foil, didn't bother her in the
    slightest.
    
    sigh,
    Steffi