Cat and the furniture
Councils about leaving and the maintenance

The charming pussycat can finish to what condition new furniture - all owners of these "wreckers" know. Many, solving a dilemma: a cat or furniture - make a choice in favour of last. However, this problem is quite solved and if if the nobility some cunnings, sharp-clawed predator does not attempt upon your new set.
Cats scratch different subjects mainly for two reasons: for the maintenance of nails in proper order and to leave a label. People somehow forget, that cats scratch subjects not from hooligan promptings. Therefore cats prefer to scratch the furniture standing on a kind, and sofas just there usually and are located.

To protect the furniture and wall-paper, try to offer a cat worthy alternative. It can be a board or a rack fitted by a carpet covering (underside). The adaptation for a point of claws should be rigidly fixed, it is desirable vertically or hardly with an inclination.

If dimensions of your apartment allow, it is possible to arrange "cat's house". The cut tree will perfectly be entered in your interior. On it it is possible to arrange crossbeams, a stove bench or even a small house as a doghouse. If your cat does not like a wooden surface, wind a tree with a hempen cord. For the most captious мурок suspend also toys and grease a trunk with the cat's mint. Well what cat will refuse such "palace"?!

Somehow in the spring when cut a poplar, I have brought home "piece of wood" with branches and have put under a table. My cats were delighted.

So, you have built "cat's the house" or were limited to other adaptation. Now it is possible to start with pure conscience educational process. Here there is variety of cunnings. For example, you have noticed, that your pussycat has aimed claws at a favourite sofa during this moment try to get imperceptibly for it a spray and to scatter on it water. The main thing that at a cat it is action associated not with you, and with its bad behaviour. After "shower" you take it on hands and with the most gentle words carry on the place put for a scratching.

Sometimes very much helps spreading with  preserved surfaces a citron deodorant, vinegar, vodka (experiment). It is possible to put also on sofa edge any "traps" which cats at approach can fall with noise (bank with coins, for example).

Main "cunning" consists in that a cat strenuously praised if she has become interested in the adaptation prepared for it. It is possible even to treat her with something. The more pleasant emotions she during this moment will test, the better.