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High semi-feral success was 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). |
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High semi-feral success was Wow!
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. |
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High semi-feral success was Wow!
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 |
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