Cat wrecking our carpet

[lineandsinker]

Hiya,

I have a Tortie (F, 7) who is wrecking our carpets. She’s been a furniture scratcher since a kitten but has turned her attention to our brand new carpet. We’ve got the same carpet throughout and she’s giving them all a good go. In our communal areas, the carpet is almost bald in a few spots. Not ideal - they were installed in September. My DH is going spare due to the cost of the carpet. The house had a Berber style carpet when we moved in and now it’s a carpet with a heavier twist.

She’s never been a fan of the scratching post / corrugated cardboard scratcher; she doesn’t respond to catnip and no amount of treats will entice her to use the scratchers so that’s not a strategy that will work for us.

In the past, we’ve always been able to lock her out of the rooms with the item she favours scratching but obviously, we can’t do that with carpets.

Does anyone have any other suggestions we could try?

Thank you!

So would she not use a horizontal scratcher? Mine scratch on door mats too - could you try them on a carpeted area

White pepper on carpet. They hate it

Our corrugated cardboard scratcher is horizontal and she is not interested at all. We entice her on with treats - she gets on to eat them and then saunters straight off .

Get a carpet off cut of something very expensive in the hope she’ll scratch that instead.

You’re a brave soul going toe to toe with a tortie. They are determined little things.

I wonder if the cardboard was moving around too much for her liking? The carpets stable by comparison. My boy used to steady the cardboard one with his back leg.

Maybe a sisal mat would suit her better but how to secure it so it suits madams requirements.

We’re going for hard flooring throughout. & we haven’t even got a cat anymore.

Our female cat pulls lumps out of our carpet , its like little lumos of cotton wool fluffing about .

We now have a Cat Tower De-Luxe taking up half our lounge now to try and distract them.
As they are MN Cats they are judge-ily ignoring it

My stair carpet is threadbare from top to bottom. Only arthritis has stopped the old girl from scratching it.

Our cats have totally trashed the new carpet. We have three of them and at any one time you'll hear one of them clawing the carpet to pieces. We've tried other cardboard horizontal scratching posts - to no avail. We just suck it up and budget for a new carpet...

Same here.... shredded the carpet outside my dc bedroom. Got laminate flooring instead..... now they're attacking my sofa

My tortie is a pain for this, I have found Get Off, sprayed liberally works for a while, get it From Pets at home. She attacks the stairs carpet, but stops when I spray it for a day or so.
She has loads of scratching posts, which she occasionally uses.

Thanks for all of your suggestions. Glad I’m not the only one with a Tortie hellbent on destruction. Our other Tortie, on the other hand, will only scratch her post and nothing else! It’s like two polar opposites.

I’ll look at securing the floor scratcher to see if we have any luck with that and investigate the spray from PAH. She’ll probably stick two claws up at both 😭