Any owner of a domestic cat knows what is scratches from claws on walls. If not to take due measures, the pet will quickly turn a refined situation into "antiques". In the nature it grinds off the died-off cornea about rough surfaces and marks the territory the smell. It is senseless to fight against fundamental needs of an animal. Your task is to help a cat with "manicure" and at the same time to preserve finishing of the apartment.
It is required to you
- - durable finishing materials;
- - store or self-made claw sharpeners;
- - cat's mint;
- - toy for a cat;
- - unnecessary thing of the owner;
- - adhesive tape;
- - consultation with the veterinarian and groomer.
Instruction
1. Choose durable finishing materials. The aelurophile should say goodbye to paper wall-paper; wooden panels and smart woven covering – too not option. Paste over walls with the washing wall-paper on the basis of vinyl or paint with resistant emulsion paint (for example, the Tikurilla or TERRACO brands). If not to disaccustom a cat to scratch walls, these decorative surfaces can hold on in a relative order 1.5-2 years.
2. It is possible to protect walls from cat's claws by means of more expensive and strong materials more reliably. For example, sheathe living rooms plastic sheet panels or fiber (wood-shaving) boards. For the bathroom and kitchen use a qualitative opaque tile.
3. If you hold the whole brood of cats and want to finish walls seriously and for a long time, choose an artificial stone or porcelain tile. Show taste and imagination to give to the "stone" room homeliness. For example, find interesting design and execute an interior in fashionable "rural" style.
4. Prepare for a cat special places for a point of claws, then it is not necessary to be spent for repair. The wall is enough to be pasted over with a carpet of suitable color, at meter height from a floor. Other option – attach beautiful wooden boards on room perimeter and upholster them with scraps of a soft floor covering of different geometrical forms: square, round, diamond-shaped.
5. Make "exercise machine" for a cat: upholster with an old carpet a board and establish it at a small angle to a wall. In process of wear replace material. As an alternative to such homemade products special grinding columns from zoological shop will serve.
6. Tame an animal to use a claw sharpener, otherwise all your efforts will be vain. Some of the checked ways: to install adaptation near a night laying of the pet and to gradually delete it to the right place; to process a grinding column the aelurophile lemon (cat's mint); to attach to it a favourite toy or the owner's thing. For the period of training paste over available places on walls and furniture with a bilateral adhesive tape – cats do not love sticky surfaces.
7. You monitor growth of cat's claws. Whenever possible allow a pet to walk and climb trees more. Animals homebodies need to delete regularly top died-off cornea layer from claws. However never do such "manicure" without special knowledge not to do harm to the pet. Consult with the veterinarian or the cat's hairdresser - the groomer.