There are many benefits of keeping pets. Some friends will keep pet dogs, while others will keep pet cats. However, you will find that cats often scratch things at home, and many furniture will see cat scratches. Therefore, we must train cats to use cat scratch boards to prevent them from destroying furniture. So, how should we train our cats to get rid of this bad habit?
1. Cats love to grab furniture
1. Grabbing cat nature
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Cats like to grab furniture because cats are born to grind their claws. When cats catch objects, they always like to scratch them in the same place or in the same place. Some cats will scratch furniture on the spot and feel very accomplished.
2. Furniture is wrapped with smells
This is because cats have rich glands on their feet that can secrete viscous and odorous liquid. During the scratching process, the liquid sticks to the surface of the scratched object. The smell of these mucus will attract the cat to go to the same place to scratch again. Cats love to grab furniture, so they should correct it immediately and use cat scratching boards.
3. Daily habits
Some cats often experience slashing after waking up and stretching after stretching. This may be because the cat does not correct it more when it occurs, and once, second or third times become a habitual action.
4. Grinding claws demonstrates power
Grinding claws is also to show one's own power and increase the smell. There are odor glands inside the cat's forefoot, so it grinds its claws to leave its own odor. In training cats, grinding claws is the most difficult thing.
2. Methods for training cats not to scratch furniture
1. Trim nails regularly
Cats grind their claws, in order to get rid of old nails, cut their nails regularly, which can not only reduce the destructive power of cats to grind their claws on furniture, but also prevent the owner from accidentally being scratched by the cat when playing with the cat.
2. If you want to prevent cats from grinding their claws on furniture, you must provide cats with other tools for grinding their claws. Cats can be provided with cat scratching boards or cat crawling racks that are specially designed for cats to sharpen their claws, and the cat's attention will be transferred from furniture to cat scratching boards.
3. When you find out, you will stop immediately. Many times, cats know that it is wrong to scratch your furniture, but for the purpose of attracting attention or venting your dissatisfaction, they deliberately scratch your furniture, and even look at you with provocative eyes while grinding their claws.
Experts' explanation: This behavior must be stopped immediately.
4. Lemonade spraying furniture
Most cats hate the smell of lemon very much and will avoid it from afar. If the cat at home fails to change after repeated teachings, you can only spray some lemon juice or lemon essential oil on the furniture with water.
5. Wearing a coat for furniture
Some cats are just persistent and have to fight to the end. For such cats, there is no way to do so, so they can only wear coats for furniture at home.
3. Precautions for purchasing cat scratching boards
1. Avoid the same material
Avoid purchasing cat scratching boards of the same material as furniture and decorations at home. For example, if you don’t want the carpet at home to be damaged, don’t choose a scratch board made of carpet woven, otherwise the cat will be confused and don’t understand why this can be caught but that is not allowed.
2. The cat's scratching board should be fixed. The long square size scratching board mentioned above can be fixed. The height is about the cat's legs stand up and can grab them in a stretched posture. It is the most popular. Remember to fix it firmly to make it easy to use.
3. The area of the grabbing board is large enough
The size area of the cat is placed flat on the floor must be large enough so that the cat can lie on its entire body so that it will not be eliminated by the cat because it is difficult to exert force, and it will not be able to play any role.
4. Setting up multiple grabbing boards
It is recommended that cats prepare at least two boards, because it is not one piece enough. The more places to set up cats to grab the board, the better, in case when the cat wants to catch it, it does not grab the board and then grab the furniture.
Many cats like to grab things randomly, and their personalities will also become impatient. Many cats need to scratch or show their power. Therefore, we must figure out the reasons why cats grind their claws. At the same time, you can trim your cat's nails regularly, use cat's special scratch boards, putting coats on your own furniture, etc., which can effectively prevent cats from scratching furniture.