Cats by the nature - dangerous predators which have an own need and habits. You should not be surprised if once the pet undertakes to tear up a sofa or new wall-paper with a force to realize the natural instincts.
Instruction
1. It can occur absolutely for various reasons. First, thus, the animal tries to mark the territory, leaving marks and a personal smell, warning possible strangers. Secondly, when the pet tears up furniture, he grinds off the horny sites of claws, doing at the same time "manicure" ideal. Of course, to you it is worth to remember about a stress in case of which, the cat just has an urgent need "to exhaust" on the next sofa.
2. Of course, from it it is not easier for owners, sometimes to such an extent that they simply try to get rid of the disobedient pet. But whether it is worth resolving an issue so considerably? It is possible to try to disaccustom it to this addiction by means of specialized devices.
3. First of all, it is necessary to get a claw sharpener. It represents itself the wooden blank wound by a rigid cord or fabric. To show to an animal as it works, it is necessary to carry out several times it by a paw on a claw sharpener. It is necessary to establish this design in that place where it will often catch sight to a cat. Most of favourites with pleasure switch to a new toy and at all forget about a master's sofa.
4. If the claw sharpener did not make an impression on a cat, in this case it is possible to use special slips caps which are pasted on the pet's claws by means of zooveterinary glue. Of course, this way demands big time expenditure as it is worth changing these slips time in two-three weeks. At the same time, after their removal, it is necessary to file the grown claws of a cat, and only after that, to glue these caps again.
5. There are, also, sprays which are intended for scaring away of cats from the concrete place by means of a smell. It is considered that if to spray the required site this spray, its smell will seem to a cat disgusting, and it will cease to approach this place. In realities, most often cats come back to former affairs as soon as this aroma disappears. But it is worth trying after all.
6. Some owners prefer less humane method, such as onikhektomiya – surgery on removal of claws together with the last phalanx of a finger. In the people this operation carries the name "soft pads". Of course, after this manipulation, sofas will remain are safe and sound, but it is worth remembering that they carry out it under the general anesthesia which animals transfer badly. Further at a cat the incoordination, problems with a backbone can be observed, some animals are not capable to jump any more on a chair or a sofa as it will be hooked for it by it there is nothing.
7. To avoid similar problems, costs, even before appearance of the pet in the house, to consider all nuances of his education concerning damage of furniture. And when all factors will be considered, the purring lump will give the owners only joy and will not bring absolutely any efforts.