Brand new furniture becomes trash in months. Gotta mop up streaks when she decides to hide behind the couch and not drink her water. Get woke up in the middle of the night when fatty decides she didn’t eat enough.
I could sit here and type for a hundred years and not even come close to airing out my frustration. :p
God help me.
Because we love em!
Scratching in the “wrong” places tends to be either from frustration, or a lack of stimulation/appropriate places to scratch.
You probably already have some scratching toys/mats/spots, but try experimenting with different orientations; attached to a wall, 45 degree angles, those wave pattern ones, not just straight flat on the ground.
Also, try different materials. Some cats love that rope, others want cardboard, and some are very picky or want both.
If your cat is overweight and leaving streaks or not drinking enough, you should talk to a vet, ideally making an appointment with a nutritional specialist. It may be they are allergic to something in their food, causing intestinal upset. If that’s difficult, you can also simply try giving pouches of small gastrointestinal wet food and seeing if that helps.
It may also be because they are too fat to clean themselves properly, and they butt-scoot to clean it that way? You can get special diet food that fills them but doesn’t have as many calories.
we have a sacrificial couch and scratching post and she seems ok with that
she used to scratch wallpaper too… we got rid of the wallpaper
she is the cutest thing in the universe so it’s worth it
It only happens when I have people over. She hides behind the couch and refuses to come out so she gets constipated. I’m actually going to start putting a water bowl back there if we’re going to have people over.
At least she’s not shitting back there haha.