Karen
March 17th 05, 07:52 PM
"Kelly" > wrote in message
...
> So Oscar moved into the new house last Friday. We plugged in the Feliway
> diffuser a couple hours before he got there. First we just had him in the
> basement, but he really seemed to want to check out the whole house, so we
> let him. I walked with him just to make sure he wasn't going to spray
> anything (recall he sprayed at the vet clinic a week after his neuter,
it's
> been 4 weeks now). Well he has transitioned beautifully without the use
of
> meds, just the Feliway diffuser. I'm not sure if it's the Feliway that is
> helping, or if it's the fact that his hormones have tapered off.... but he
> has not made a PEEP. No meowing or howling at all, and he is completely
> comfortable in the new place and acts like the place is his.... booting
> around the house, running and having a grand ol' time.
>
> The only problem we're having is that he doesn't like his sisal rope
> scratching post and prefers to use the carpet (which are all going to be
> replaced soon with new carpet). So I'm going to wrap his scratching post
> with carpet and see if that helps. It's a super huge one so he should
like
> to use it!!! If he starts scratching up the new carpets my fiancee is
> threatening to get him declawed but I say NO WAY, so I have to make sure
> he's using his post!!!
>
> Kelly
>
>
Get one of those big cheap oriental carpets they have at Shopko or Walmart
and toss it on the floor. It will protect the regular carpet and my mom's
cat goes at hers like mad (likes the horizontal thing) pulling it up, he is
so strong, and yet, after two years of this, you can see NO damage. He may
just like to scratch horizontally. See: http://tinyurl.com/5e3en
...
> So Oscar moved into the new house last Friday. We plugged in the Feliway
> diffuser a couple hours before he got there. First we just had him in the
> basement, but he really seemed to want to check out the whole house, so we
> let him. I walked with him just to make sure he wasn't going to spray
> anything (recall he sprayed at the vet clinic a week after his neuter,
it's
> been 4 weeks now). Well he has transitioned beautifully without the use
of
> meds, just the Feliway diffuser. I'm not sure if it's the Feliway that is
> helping, or if it's the fact that his hormones have tapered off.... but he
> has not made a PEEP. No meowing or howling at all, and he is completely
> comfortable in the new place and acts like the place is his.... booting
> around the house, running and having a grand ol' time.
>
> The only problem we're having is that he doesn't like his sisal rope
> scratching post and prefers to use the carpet (which are all going to be
> replaced soon with new carpet). So I'm going to wrap his scratching post
> with carpet and see if that helps. It's a super huge one so he should
like
> to use it!!! If he starts scratching up the new carpets my fiancee is
> threatening to get him declawed but I say NO WAY, so I have to make sure
> he's using his post!!!
>
> Kelly
>
>
Get one of those big cheap oriental carpets they have at Shopko or Walmart
and toss it on the floor. It will protect the regular carpet and my mom's
cat goes at hers like mad (likes the horizontal thing) pulling it up, he is
so strong, and yet, after two years of this, you can see NO damage. He may
just like to scratch horizontally. See: http://tinyurl.com/5e3en