Bob wrote:
Can anyone help me about a serious clawing problem.

First of all NEVER consider delawing as an option. Yes your kitty's
will no longer damage your furniture since they won't have the option
to! But you will I gather (I live in the UK where one of the more
sensible laws we have is that unless there is a good vet reason to do
so it is illegal to mutilate cats in this way!) soon find kitty won't
use litter tray and start biting people

Try a selection of posts. I got my two owners and when they were
kittens I got a cheap scratching post they never used (apart from to
enable them to reach the back of a chair to attack that) Later found
out the post probably wasn't tall enough for a grown cat to use it and
as it was sitting on the floor and wasn't stable they may have been put
off from using it

I had sorta resigned myself to ruined furniture (But who cares? They
are worth it!) when I chanced upon Cosmic cat scratching posts which
are made of cardboard and flat and as the place was selling them for
1.50 I thought it was worth a try...

Within a second of opening the box and putting the post down I had both
of them on the post and scratching away happily! No training needed!
Since then they have been no problem seems this is the post they both
liked. Problem is Cosmic only sell to the US most of the time and after
getting a couple of replacements the stall that was selling them told
me they got them as part of a job lot and would not be able to get
anymore bargain cheap scratching posts

Guess who ended up on eBay finding the only UK address selling the
right posts and hitting the "Buy it now" button to get 4 posts which
with postage were almost 25.00!

Then again the cats are happy so who cares?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs