Wow!

"cybercat" wrote
"cshenk" wrote

LOL, so ok, I also have the first cat that has ever damaged furniture.
My poor lazyboy chair has a small tatter now. After some 30 cats, with
only 2 declawed (rescues you've heard of), it was about time. I think a
bit of fancy burlap with twine and some pretty brick-a-brack will make
that edge into a happy cat scratch since she obviously likes it. Works
for us!

I don't know how I missed this post! Your cats are lucky devils. We
clip monthly when we do not procrastinate. But Bella's "quick" is very
long, I guess that happens when they go a long time without clipping?

I'm not sure. Honestly, we only clipped some of them. (BTW as i typo to
you, Daisy turns lap kitty. She now climbs in my lap in daylight and likes
to be gently encircled).

So hers have to stay pretty long. We have Alpine Scratchers everywhere,
but they do use the odd couch corner every now and then. We chose pretty
tough fabric, so it is not bad.

Same here. Its not a worry that she selected one item and the damage is
easily covered. I got the material today on the way home and will do it
this weekend with an upholstery needle. It will take about 45 mins but do to
the design I want to make for her. The chair looks kinda like the one dgk
posted but fabric covered.

(dgk, I'll get back with you later, pressed for time tonight, sorry).

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:38:41 -0600, MLB wrote:

dgk wrote:
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:50:06 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

"cybercat" wrote
"cshenk" wrote
I'm now being mobbed by the cat. She knows no half measures! Hehe she
has decided someplace in her kitty brain that after dark, she can mug us
all she wants to. Now it includes crawling in laps and carefully washing
every inch of your fingers.
This is totally endearing.
Tickles too! She's not quite to the level of laying in your lap (too soon,
give her time) but perching there and letting you gently surround her with
your arms for short spates of petting is definately allowed. She even let
me pick her up and cuddled my shoulder for a moment!

Fortunately she's always been careful with the claws (some just are,
naturally, best I can tell).
I think this is true. Gracie always has been, Bella not so much.
Yes, some of my cats had to be clipped pretty often as they never got the
hint . Daisy only gets clipped with her every 6 month vet visit (we insist
then for their safety and warn in advance because she's not that well
behaved at the vets). More often isnt needed for her and if it weren't to
protect the vet, I'd not bother then.

LOL, so ok, I also have the first cat that has ever damaged furniture. My
poor lazyboy chair has a small tatter now. After some 30 cats, with only 2
declawed (rescues you've heard of), it was about time. I think a bit of
fancy burlap with twine and some pretty brick-a-brack will make that edge
into a happy cat scratch since she obviously likes it. Works for us!


I have a lazy boy type chair that is just in shreds. Oddly, it's the
only furniture that has been damaged by the cats outside of some
inadvertent scratches on two leather chairs. But this one is in the
computer room and is thus ok to have in taters although the SO does
request that it be thrown out. But it was my father's chair so I play
the sympathy card and the chair stays. Besides, it has one of those
really big mushy backs, and at the top it forms an indented -- sort of
hard to describe.

Look at this one:

http://www.reclinersplus.com/fabric-...ckrecliner.cfm

That's sort of like that but you can't really see that the top of the
rear cushion forms a sort of cat hammock where it meets the back
support of the chair. Espy just LOVES to lie in that space.



If you wanted, you could have it re-upholstered. My DIL took up
upholstery as a hobby. I have had several chairs done over the years
and it has worked out. MLB

Not worth it. The mechanism is pretty shot as well. My father has been
dead for twenty years and they had that chair a long time before he
died. I really do just hold onto it because Espy loves it so much.
Plus, I guess, it was my father's chair and I would feel bad throwing
it out. It likely will go fairly soon though. I could put in another
cat tree and Espy would probably like that just as much.

dgk wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:38:41 -0600, MLB wrote:

dgk wrote:
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:50:06 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

"cybercat" wrote
"cshenk" wrote
I'm now being mobbed by the cat. She knows no half measures! Hehe she
has decided someplace in her kitty brain that after dark, she can mug us
all she wants to. Now it includes crawling in laps and carefully washing
every inch of your fingers.
This is totally endearing.
Tickles too! She's not quite to the level of laying in your lap (too soon,
give her time) but perching there and letting you gently surround her with
your arms for short spates of petting is definately allowed. She even let
me pick her up and cuddled my shoulder for a moment!

Fortunately she's always been careful with the claws (some just are,
naturally, best I can tell).
I think this is true. Gracie always has been, Bella not so much.
Yes, some of my cats had to be clipped pretty often as they never got the
hint . Daisy only gets clipped with her every 6 month vet visit (we insist
then for their safety and warn in advance because she's not that well
behaved at the vets). More often isnt needed for her and if it weren't to
protect the vet, I'd not bother then.

LOL, so ok, I also have the first cat that has ever damaged furniture. My
poor lazyboy chair has a small tatter now. After some 30 cats, with only 2
declawed (rescues you've heard of), it was about time. I think a bit of
fancy burlap with twine and some pretty brick-a-brack will make that edge
into a happy cat scratch since she obviously likes it. Works for us!

I have a lazy boy type chair that is just in shreds. Oddly, it's the
only furniture that has been damaged by the cats outside of some
inadvertent scratches on two leather chairs. But this one is in the
computer room and is thus ok to have in taters although the SO does
request that it be thrown out. But it was my father's chair so I play
the sympathy card and the chair stays. Besides, it has one of those
really big mushy backs, and at the top it forms an indented -- sort of
hard to describe.

Look at this one:

http://www.reclinersplus.com/fabric-...ckrecliner.cfm

That's sort of like that but you can't really see that the top of the
rear cushion forms a sort of cat hammock where it meets the back
support of the chair. Espy just LOVES to lie in that space.


If you wanted, you could have it re-upholstered. My DIL took up
upholstery as a hobby. I have had several chairs done over the years
and it has worked out. MLB

Not worth it. The mechanism is pretty shot as well. My father has been
dead for twenty years and they had that chair a long time before he
died. I really do just hold onto it because Espy loves it so much.
Plus, I guess, it was my father's chair and I would feel bad throwing
it out. It likely will go fairly soon though. I could put in another
cat tree and Espy would probably like that just as much.




You are probably right. The frame of the chair is most important. If
it is weak or not well made, it is best to forget it. MLB