Save Your Furniture with a Kitten Scratching Post or Tree

If you have one or more kittens you will know that they routinely need something to claw in order to keep their claws in good condition. If you don't provide them with something then it's highly likely that they will use your furniture or carpets.

It has long been thought that when a kitten or cat scratches at something, like a tree or the arm of a sofa, they are attempting to sharpen their claws. It is now understood that this is not the primary reason that cats exhibit this common behaviour. What they are actually doing is letting others (cats and people) know that they are around and that they are active.

Scratching leaves a highly visible mark and cats also have scent glands in their paws which will also leave a characteristic mark. They will tend to come back to the same highly visible locations such as the corner of a couch, tree, fence post or door and repeatedly scratch and mark the same place, over and over again.

If you want to save your furniture the thing to do is to provide your little kittens with exactly what they want. A scratching post. Here are a selection of scratching posts available now from EBay.

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