How to stop my cats clawing my carpets by door frames?
Littlemark
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Hi guys!
First time posting in the pets forum, hope you are all having a good weekend?
I have 2 British Shorthair cats (mainly indoors unless supervised). They've recently started clawing at the carpets at the entrance to rooms by the carpet runners. We leave all of the doors open to try to prevent this but it doesn't seem to be stopping them. On one door frame they've completely ripped up the carpet from the door runner.
They have plenty of toys, scratching posts and get lots of attention. Any idea how I can control this?
Thanks in advance, mark x
Here's one of the naughty buggers (Charlie )
Charlie
First time posting in the pets forum, hope you are all having a good weekend?
I have 2 British Shorthair cats (mainly indoors unless supervised). They've recently started clawing at the carpets at the entrance to rooms by the carpet runners. We leave all of the doors open to try to prevent this but it doesn't seem to be stopping them. On one door frame they've completely ripped up the carpet from the door runner.
They have plenty of toys, scratching posts and get lots of attention. Any idea how I can control this?
Thanks in advance, mark x
Here's one of the naughty buggers (Charlie )
Charlie
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My Bernard pulls up carpets by door frames. He also pulls out the plinths beneath my kitchen cupboards and wees in random spots on the lawn that I'm trying to nurture. He's a rascal but adorable. I have put a toy cat over the area outside the bathroom that he keeps pulling up (I think it's because it's the only door in the house that ever gets shut) - he knows it's not real but he can't be bothered to move it out of the way.
I only have carpet upstairs and I know to keep all the doors ajar. Bernard will claw any carpet beside a closed door.
ETA Charlie is very handsome. He looks like he's the boss in the household
He's a handsome devil!:)
However, it was once said to me that if you take a clawing spot away you need to provide them with a replacement. Have you got any carpet remnants that you can nail to a board - hessian side up, if it's that sort of carpet - and put it close to the clawed areas? They may change their habits.
Thanks for all of your responses I think I'll give Feliway a try, my partner will go mad if I start taping up the house with tape! I've also heard spraying lemon juice can help, anyone have experience of this?
Yes Charlie may look like the boss but its his little sister Lily who rules the roost... http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8192/lilyx.jpg
Your three look adorable too, all so chilled out, which one is Bernard?