Do cats ruin your furniture, doors and kitchen cabinets?

[Anonymous]

My cats were pretty destructive the first year or two. Not cabinets - they never touched those - but they LOVED clawing at couches, dining room chairs, and window frames. It was a constant battle to chase them around and move them to their kitty condo for scratching. They mellowed after age 2 and only scratch a bit at carpets and couches now, but not enough to do any damage. They mostly stick to their scratching posts.

[Anonymous]

I e got 2 cats and a dog. The dog has done waaayyyy more damage than the cats. The only thing the cats have really ruined is the basement rug, where they throw up all the time. We have plenty of scratchers around the house so they never touch the furniture and the only time they get near the kitchen cabinets is when my big cat tries to get into them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 cats they never scratched my leather coach

1. Provide scratches post in every room. tickle and horizontal scratches pad or post.

2. There are cat detergent sprays that you spray on the furnitures you do not want cats to scratch. Do this right before you bring cat in to your house. Now cat will only attracted yo the cat scratch post. Keep spraying for the first few months. After that, I found that my cats don’t touch anything else without keep the spraying.

3 for odor, it’s on the owner. I have litter robot 4 self cleaning litter box. And two more regular cover litter boxes.( total of 3 cats) . My house doesn’t smell. ( per my guest and my nanny)

4 never declaw cat. It.p can cause other problem such as peeing all over your house etc. scratching is natural for cat. Between its toes , there are pheromone gland that they spread to mark their territory. Imagine if they can’t mark it with scratching, they will mark with pee instead ! Peeing around is worse, way way worse for me.

God. I have two dogs, and one cat sounds like too much work and disruption.

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[Anonymous]

You cat people are probably the first to suggest a potluck, too. 😝😝

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cats were pretty destructive the first year or two. Not cabinets - they never touched those - but they LOVED clawing at couches, dining room chairs, and window frames. It was a constant battle to chase them around and move them to their kitty condo for scratching. They mellowed after age 2 and only scratch a bit at carpets and couches now, but not enough to do any damage. They mostly stick to their scratching posts.

How did you repair couches? Or just bought new?

[Anonymous]

I have learned cat people are very very tolerant of destructive behavior.
From cat pee in corners or on a bed, from scratching the hell out of furniture, to jumping on counters with their nasty kitty litter feet, to waking you up in the middle of the night for no seemingly good reason.
I have owned cats and never again. I did declaw them (back in the 90s) but not before they destroyed an expensive rug and clawed up a favorite chair. They lived very long lives - into their early teens.

[Anonymous]

Our cats are from a breeder, which I have mixed feelings about but I will say they are trained very well, do not scratch inappropriately, and are very well behaved. I am not sure why cats would damage kitchen cabinets. One of my cats like to jump and "tag" things on door frames, much like my teen son likes to hit the top of every door frame he walks through, but there is no damage.

They have scratching posts and so many toys it sometimes looks like we have a toddler. We do have a light scratch "patina" on the leather sofa, not because they are using it to scratch, but because after they chase each other across it 20 times when their nails are getting longer they might nick it here and there. It's not cat-damage looking, it just looks like a leather sofa we actually use, uniformly.

Does it smell? Not really. We have one litter box per cat in a dedicated small room/long closet that vents outside. There is a long industrial runner rug leading to the boxes within the room, so they shed any litter remaining on their paws on the walk to exit the room through the cat door (it also has a motion-sensor light...if you know my husband, I have definitely outted myself here). The system works really well. We wipe the boxes down weekly and top off the litter and then fully clean, sterilize, and change litter boxes every other week.

Hair? Yeah. They are long haired cats. We vacuum a lot, have a lint roller or two in every room, and have fur scrapers for more stubborn rugs and bed spreads. This is just a regular chore in my house.

We are cat people. Most people don't even cut their cats nails or take the time to care for them properly (our cats are totally fine with this and one acts like it's a spa treatment to cut nails and get brushed, while the other needs a little more reassurance but is fine).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I trim his claws myself so he can't do too much damage. Furniture is fine but he loves to rip up looped type rugs.
Litter box is in the basement and cleaned daily.
Dogs are 1000x messier and more destructive. I babysat my friends dog and she chewed up the baseboards while we were sleeping.

Absolutely not. As a whole, dogs do not track litter while climbing on tables, counters, cabinets, beds, etc. Dog urine (which 99% of the time happens outside) isn’t as destructive as cat urine.

In no way are dogs are more destructive or messier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cat people are probably the first to suggest a potluck, too. 😝😝

You need to get a grip.

Germaphobes are truly the most annoying people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Remove their front claws and you won’t have any issues.

Do not do this, it is very cruel and painful to the cat.

?

My parents had the vet do this and their cat lived a very happy and long life (nearly 20 years) as a spoiled indoor cat. I’m sure the vet did something to mitigate any pain.

It's still cruel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cat people are probably the first to suggest a potluck, too. 😝😝

You need to get a grip.

Germaphobes are truly the most annoying people.

Uh huh. Spoken like someone whose cats walk all over the kitchen counter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trim his claws myself so he can't do too much damage. Furniture is fine but he loves to rip up looped type rugs.
Litter box is in the basement and cleaned daily.
Dogs are 1000x messier and more destructive. I babysat my friends dog and she chewed up the baseboards while we were sleeping.

Absolutely not. As a whole, dogs do not track litter while climbing on tables, counters, cabinets, beds, etc. Dog urine (which 99% of the time happens outside) isn’t as destructive as cat urine.

In no way are dogs are more destructive or messier.

I had the dog for two weeks and she chewed up a coffee table, a hamper, the aforementioned baseboards, multiple small plastic kid's items, and you couldn't leave so much as a piece of toast unattended while using the bathroom without the dog scarfing it. She could and did reach the counter and table. Dogs' fur is much stronger smelling, a cat smells like laundry to me. It's just a different pet experience and I prefer cats. Different strokes for different folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cat people are probably the first to suggest a potluck, too. 😝😝

You need to get a grip.

Germaphobes are truly the most annoying people.

Uh huh. Spoken like someone whose cats walk all over the kitchen counter.

Actually, they don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have learned cat people are very very tolerant of destructive behavior.
From cat pee in corners or on a bed, from scratching the hell out of furniture, to jumping on counters with their nasty kitty litter feet, to waking you up in the middle of the night for no seemingly good reason.
I have owned cats and never again. I did declaw them (back in the 90s) but not before they destroyed an expensive rug and clawed up a favorite chair. They lived very long lives - into their early teens.

Not a long life at all for a cat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I trim his claws myself so he can't do too much damage. Furniture is fine but he loves to rip up looped type rugs.
Litter box is in the basement and cleaned daily.
Dogs are 1000x messier and more destructive. I babysat my friends dog and she chewed up the baseboards while we were sleeping.

Absolutely not. As a whole, dogs do not track litter while climbing on tables, counters, cabinets, beds, etc. Dog urine (which 99% of the time happens outside) isn’t as destructive as cat urine.

In no way are dogs are more destructive or messier.

I had the dog for two weeks and she chewed up a coffee table, a hamper, the aforementioned baseboards, multiple small plastic kid's items, and you couldn't leave so much as a piece of toast unattended while using the bathroom without the dog scarfing it. She could and did reach the counter and table. Dogs' fur is much stronger smelling, a cat smells like laundry to me. It's just a different pet experience and I prefer cats. Different strokes for different folks.

Most dogs don’t come pre-trained, PP.