21-12-2007, 03:05 PM
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My cats r all trained to scratch specific places only. As cat owners, we need to understand why they scratch, things they like or prefer to scratch.
I provide pieces of rough wood at strategic places (example, I tie a flat rough plank from a fruit crate vertically at the side of every one of their cages which they scratch excitedly each time they see me). I also place a cheap sisal mat from IKEA on the ground and they just love to scratch there too.
Besides all that, I put a big rough heavy plank of wood in the garden and this is their favorite, mesti semua orang pegi give a good scratch several times a day. Upstairs the kids have a choice of the sisal mat, the vertical wooden plank in their cage or 2/3 thick cardboard boxes which they also use to play hide-and-seek and ambush/pounce/stalking when let out of the cages.
U must stop them from any new places that U do not want them to scratch by using yr hand. Quickly and gently stop them immediately by cupping their tiny paws with yr hands, then distract them or carry them away, bcos once started, there r marks and scent on the spot that will cause the whole troop to carry on scratching and very, very hard to stop. Thank God to this day, none of my cats scratch any of my furniture at all!!
I never clip my cayangs punya claws and never will becos I firmly believe they r a weapon for their protection: they need to climb and escape danger quickly as well as if defend themselves if attacked!
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