Cat scratches on leather sofa

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Help! The cats' days are numbered....

They have scratched our new semi-aniline leather sofas. They are only shallow scratches but very visible none the less. OH is less than impressed. How can I repair them?

I've tried a soft cloth with warm water without much luck. The semi-aniline type of leather is apparently dyed leather - do I dare try shoe polish???!!

TIA

I tried that, it didn't work. Sorry but all my efforts failed, can you recover area?? I tried permanent pen too, it wasn't permanent.
One more word of advise, well 2 actually, flea treatments(spot on variety) and sun tan lotion also strip colour from leather sofas.
R u insured? could a terrible accident with nail polish occur??
mine are now 8 years old so going soon but its gutting.
might be fabric next time.

We have fabric sofas and our cat has had a good go on them! He visited my inlaws with a leather sofa and never touched it!

Okay - STOP!!! Try this: Stubben Hamanol

It feeds the leather and will remove minor scratches

Am sorry but it's like letting very young toddlers loose on a white fabric sofa.....suck it up.
Sorry no better advice

Many thanks for all your replies... Yes I quite agree it is probably stupid to have leather with cats, but we thought it would be easier than having fabric sofas with kids! To be fair to the cats, they only wreck the sofas when they jump and lose their grip or are scared being chased by kids

coansha, I'm loving the idea of a 'terrible accident'. Not sure that I can manage to spill something over two sofas at the same time though! Will watch out for the sun cream and flea treatment, thanks.

Off to buy some very cheap Stubben and if that doesn't do the trick the more technical dye....

I put a moisturising leather cream on our tanned leather sofa, I don't know if it's the same as semi aniline though. It does hide a good 90% of the scratch.

He never claws it he loses grip or jumps over it having a mad half hour. Bengals have a lot of mad half hours.