Cat Behavior: Protecting Furniture

Video Transcript

"If your cat is already scratching your furniture and walls and you want them to stop, there's a couple of techniques that you can use to help make that area less desirable for them to scratch. An easy thing to use is aluminum foil. Most of us have this in our kitchens. And you can just cut a piece of aluminum foil that's big enough to cover the spot that your cat is scratching. And then you can fix it along the walls with tape or on the furniture as a quick fix. Now this is probably not something you're going to want to keep in your house forever but it keep the cat from doing damage until you can find a way, something else for your cat to scratch on. Another product that's available is this kind of thin sticky material that you can actually buy that will help to keep your cat of the furniture. When you peel it back, you can, it's very sticky and one end can stick to your upholstered furniture and the other side stays out. So it's like double sided sticky tape. And when the cat goes to scratch, it's sticky and they don't like that. So they will stay away from that area. So this is a good more long term way to protect your furniture edges from being scratched."