Some owners of cats consider that the most effective way to disaccustom the pet to scratch furniture is just to cut off to it claws. It is not absolutely correct, the procedure of trimming of claws is rather unpleasant and is even painful for animals. To disaccustom a cat it is possible to scratch furniture also others, more humane, ways.
It is required to you
- - claw sharpener;
- - cat's mint;
- - spray with a smell of a citrus;
- - sack with spices;
- - tin or glass jar;
- - several coins;
Instruction
1. That to disaccustom cat to scratch furniture, provide it the convenient location for a point of claws, for example, get the special column intended for these purposes in pet-shop. Before making it, observe what surfaces your favourite likes to scratch most of all: rigid, soft, with corners or without them. Such observations will help you to choose the claw sharpener, most attractive to your pet.
2. Establish a claw sharpener far away from furniture that the cat, having been fond of her scratching, accidentally did not switch to favourite and more habitual chair or a sofa.
3. Your following task – any ways to attract a cat to a claw sharpener. Try to show to the pet for what the new subject unfamiliar to it is necessary, namely pretend that you sharpen claws about a column. You can spray a claw sharpener with cat's mint which smell will not leave indifferent any cat. Do not force the pet to scratch a subject unfamiliar to it violently at all. The animal can be frightened and not approach a claw sharpener absolutely any more.
4. Surely encourage the correct behavior of a cat. You praise, caress and treat with favourite delicacy every time when she uses a claw sharpener. Thus, the animal will notice interrelation between caress of the owner, a tasty treat and her good behavior soon.
5. To disaccustom a cat to scratch furniture, process space around its favourite sofas, chairs and chairs spray with a smell of a citrus or suspend the sack filled with strongly smelling spices near furniture. Prepare that the smell in the room will become not really and pleasant, but it will frighten off a cat from furniture for a long time.
6. To disaccustom a cat it is possible to scratch furniture by means of one more interesting, and, above all, an effective method. Take a tin or glass jar of the small size. Throw into it several coins and close a cover. Every time when you see that your favourite scratches furniture, with a force stir up to bank with coins. Cats hate loud sounds therefore they immediately run away from the room in which they are distributed.