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My cats would have a ball with this - especially the wobbling part of it.

Let's teach the kitty to scratch the furniture.....

JacksonMarie...we're taught our kitties to scratch particular furniture and not other human furnishing. Just takes a little patience and cat psychology (and catnip, sticky paper and cat treats).

Cats need something sturdy to really put their shoulders into when they scratch (scratching is a biological need but can be directed towards certain furnishings, we use purrfect posts). Having this as your primary scratching post would be a disaster. Toy, maybe, scratching post, no.

regards,
trillium

Thanks Gregory. It doesn't work that way with my cat who, by the way, is perfect :)

Seriously, I've had cats my entire adult life and some scratch furniture and some don't. Cat knowledge, training, and owner (I dislike that word here) patience is important & and quite good at it, but I don't want any furniture scratched. I have other wood art at floor level and I don't want that scratched so I don't want any room for confusion. And cats are cats.

I agree with trillium about cats needing something sturdy to get there shoulders into. My cat does best with the cardboard slanted "thing". She attacks it, gets in there and has a real workout, must have been a mountain goat in a prior life. That's all she scratches.

And my cat really dislikes catnip. Bizarre, but true.