NEVER Buy Scratching Posts Again: 3 Things I Use After 40 Years With Cats

NEVER Buy Scratching Posts Again: 3 Things I Use After 40 Years With Cats The Cat Problem Solver, my large-print book of 66 everyday cat troubles and what to do about each (it helps support me and my small channel), and a free chapter: margieknowscats.com Your cat sniffs the new scratching post once and goes straight back to the sofa arm, and it feels like spite when it is nothing of the kind. After forty years with cats, Margie shows three cheap fixes that are not posts: cardboard strips packed into a lid beside her bed, sisal rope wound tight round a heavy table leg or newel post, and a plain doormat by the front door. You will get the sizes, the rope arithmetic, how to mark your cat's true stretch height with painter's tape, and how to make the sofa dull and the rope her own. She also covers hanging a mat on the wall, what a sudden change in scratching can mean, and why a vet visit is the answer when an older cat stops scratching altogether. Come away with a plan for where your cat already spends her day, so the scratching has somewhere to land. 0:00 Intro 0:31 Cardboard Scratching Pad 4:27 Choosing and Measuring Rope 6:25 Wrapping the Table Leg 8:23 Making the Rope Hers 15:57 Why She Greets You