If the cat tears off and scratches wall-paper in the house, it is necessary to try to find out the reason of such behavior of the favourite. Generally cats tear up wall-paper and furniture because of the physiological need: their claws constantly grow and peel off. Of course, it brings continuous inconveniences to their owners.
Why cats tear off and scratch wall-paper?
If cats were able to speak, they would answer this question so: "We need to sharpen claws". As such behavior of the house weasel is her natural physiological requirement, it is impossible to abuse a cat for it at all. Animals are not guilty that the nature allocated them with such feature of an organism.
Besides, features of cat's character do not provide excessively strict attitude towards these fluffy beings, cats consider themselves full hostesses in the house. Therefore to abuse a cat – only to aggravate her attitude towards the owner. Cats are peculiar beings, here and approach to them it is necessary to look for correct!
The cat tears off and scratches wall-paper. What should I do?
Before trying to disaccustom a cat to tear up wall-paper, it is necessary to find her on "crime scene", i.e. to wait for the moment when the pet starts one of the favourite classes. Skilled aelurophiles advise in advance "to arm" with a spray with cold water and a linking of various keys. It is necessary at a well-chosen moment to manage to frighten a cat – to sprinkle her cold water from a spray and to ring out with keys. The animal will be frightened and will be forced to interrupt the fascinating studies. Minus of such way is its odnorazovost: on the first time the cat will be frightened and will escape, but already another time she will wait a right moment when the owner is not near, and will start over again sharpening the claws. That is why it is necessary to resort to the most serious methods, for example, to get for the favourite a so-called claw sharpener – the special device covered with soft material and allowing cats to sharpen the claws at once. Claw sharpeners are on sale in specialized pet-shops. It is possible and to make this simple adaptation independently. For this purpose the pipe or a board which will need to be wound with any strong fabric (carpet, denim, burlap) is required. Fabric needs to be strengthened nails in faces of the basis of a bar or by means of glue. It is reasonable to believe that the claw sharpener is established in that place where the cat especially often misbehaves. There is also other way of production of cat's "exercise machine". For this purpose the piece of an unnecessary carpet or other fabric is beaten directly to a wall. Fabric can and be not beaten, and just to hang up on the door handle or on any other convenient location. Perhaps, the most widespread way to disaccustom a cat to tear up wall-paper is the podstriganiye to her claws. The complexity is in what experts do not recommend it to do. Claws – natural need of any animal therefore to shear them, as well as cat's mustache, is impossible! If nevertheless it is decided to take this step, it is necessary to do it extremely carefully. Otherwise it is possible to injure a nerve. No more than one millimeter from one claw are sheared! If all these ways of fight against cat's "lawlessness" concerning wall-paper do not arrange, aelurophiles advise to sprinkle a little the "problem" place in the house some sharply smelling substance. In principle, on sale there are flavored sprays, but it is possible to use both vinegar, and pepper, and citric acid, and various essential oils, and even spirits. Here only not everyone will want that caustic liquid was constantly absorbed in its wall-paper.