I am at war with my cat! I am packing a pistol

[rurallib]

squirt pistol that is. Trying to get her to stop scratching the furniture.
Do I have any chance of winning.

[TZ]

1. No.

You can't carry a squirt pistol 24/7..Cat will learn to scratch when you are not around...;-)

[rurallib]

2. will I get any personal good feeling that I tried?

or will the cat make me miserable in other ways?

[TZ]

3. You are defying your feline overlord by even trying.

Prepare to find hairballs in your shoes!!:rofl:

[Autumn]

4. The cat has no fear of going nuclear on

your ass. Not a chance in hell of winning. Give in, buy a huge scratching post, cover it with catnip.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Does the cat have any scratching posts?

I have one in each room and occasionally rub catnip on the scratching part. My two cats scratch there and leave my furniture alone.
Cats really do need a place to scratch.

[WolverineDG]

6. get one or two of those cardboard scratchie things

especially the one shaped like a chaise lounge....rub some of the cat nip that comes with it & you'll have to pry your cat off of it with a crow bar. Mine love those things so much I had to get one for each to cut down on the squabbling! :rofl:

dg

[graywarrior]

7. OMG, me too!

We bought new sofas and for a week he was terrified of them. Suddenly last night, he starts with the scratching. I have a huge squirt bottle that I aimed at him and he took off like a shot. So I leave the bottle right near the sofas.

I have to grind his claws down more. That's the only solution. I read somewhere that double sticky tape put onto where they scratch deters them, but who wants that crap all over your furniture. Aluminum foil is another thing that is supposed to work. I'm too lazy to go that route.

[suninvited]

8. tried that

the result: my cat just hated water pistols. He figured if there wasn't a water pistol around anything was fair game. And not just a water pistol, someone had to be holding it.

[HopeHoops]

9. Super Soaker.

Get one of the REALLY good ones - and a LARGE one. You can pop the cat from the other side of the room with one of those, and chase them down the hall and up the stairs.

[suninvited]

11. I think the OP just wants to scare the cat into not

scratching the furniture. Not drown it.

[HopeHoops]

12. Nah, you aim for the other end - they hate a water stream up the ass.

You can chase them all over the house on one charge.

[suninvited]

13. lol

I used to use a tiny little squirt pistol. My son had a super soaker that he could have drowned moose with.

[Bertha Venation]

10. If you are consistent, you can win.

When you squirt your cat, say "NO!" firmly and loudly. Eventually if she starts to scratch, she will quit when you say "NO!" because she'll associate it with being squirted.

Edit: and if it won't harm your furniture or floor, squirt liberally. The wetter the cat gets, the better she'll get the message.

[Jokerman]

14. Sticky paws and a prominently located scratching post.

Sticky paws is a clear, two-sided tape that you can put on the places she likes to scratch but shouldn't.

The scratching post will giver her an alternative but if she is like my little ones, the post will have to be located where you can watch her "show off" for it to work.