The couch likes you! The couch is your friend. It let’s you sleep on top of it does it not?? Not many friends will let you do that.
Whereas that scratching post over there hates you. I know. It told me. It says you’'re too furry and you couldn’t scratch your way out of paper bag. Are you going to put up with that?
But when I claw the couch you pay attention to me!
:eek: My cat is a Doper??? No wonder he claws the sofa, he’s pissed off I’m on the the computer.
Not to get all serious or anything but is your scratcher all carpeted? Because some cats like sisal rope a lot better…
Yes to sisal. We have a sisal covered pole and our kitty shows no interest at all in clawing anything else.
Well. Except my hand now and then when pet-the-kitty time has abruptly expired.
Easy homemade sisal scratching post:
Piece of PVC pipe
Piece of 1x1 scrap wood that will fit into pipe
Sisal cord - available at craft stores
Glue
Wood for base - should be large and heavy enough that cat can’t tip post over.
Optional:
dried catnip
Make sure your 1x1 or other scrap wood will fit into PVC pipe; round off edges if necessary. The wood should be slightly shorter than the PVC.
Screw the wood firmly into the center of the base wood.
A section at a time, spread glue on PVC pipe and wind sisal cord tightly around pipe. You can incorporate dried catnip into the glue at this stage if you wish. Keep the cord pushed down on the pipe so no pipe shows through. Completely cover pipe with sisal at allow to dry for at least 24 hours.
Slide pipe over wood 1x1.
Introduce cat.
You can also do this with heavy duty cardboard tubes but they will wear out much more quickly.
On the left hand side of this you can see a sisal post I made for the cat suite. It shows plenty of wear.
Yeah, and there’s just no advance warning. It’s just petme-petme-petme GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FOOL.
I don’t even own cats and I know this!
You can also make a good cat-scratch-thing with a whole bunch of layers of corrugated cardboard stacked together, presented edge-on.
My cat like those, too, but they make so much of a mess I don’t use them much.
Fickle beasts! Now that they have their own couch in the suite, they never scratch it.
Of course not. You wouldn’t expect them to destroy their own furniture, would you? 
It explains a lot about my psyche when I originally thought this was about a dog. My second thought was about the art of couch fucking.
http://www.mymasturbation.com/male/couch.htmq NSFW link subtly changed.
Interesting idea. But the scratching post is made of pretty much the same stuff as the couch. But cats are perverse. Then I think, everyone here knows that.
well, duhh…if I am supposed to scratch on that little fabric-covered post, but there is another ,bigger, better, and more inviting fabric-covered post–which one would you use?
And there are humans who sit on that big post and scritch my chin, too. See… it’s obviously the best scratching post in the house. Gee, I wonder why they bought two of them, anyway?
(it’s probably too late now…but get a kitty-post that looks and feels different from the furniture. The sisal rope ones work well for us)
Just looking at the title I knew what this thread would be about.
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well, duhh…if I am supposed to scratch on that little fabric-covered post, but there is another ,bigger, better, and more inviting fabric-covered post–which one would you use?QUOTE]
Well don’t go “duh” at me. They have two carpet covered choices and they choise the wrong one. The one as I was making was the vicous little predator
I give home to care when I point to their food dish. They just look at my finger.
And now the little murderer is sat overl likcining her paws.
I shouugh have raises fish.
:: holding cat up to screen so she can see the OP ::
See! See! Read that!
I managed to extinguish this behavior with the use of sticky sheets of sticky stuff. Available at PetsMart and the like. It’s like dual-sided contact paper - you stick it on your couch and the cat doesn’t like the (slightly) sticky feel on his paws. After a few tries, he gives up. Ours liked the back quarter of the couch, so I just left the sticky stuff up for a while, since no one saw it anyway behind the end table. It’s been on there nearly a year, and just this week I noticed it looked awfully dusty and I took it off. Seems he hasn’t noticed the sticky stuff is gone, 'cause he’s still avoiding the couch.
Here is a relevant comic. 
You win the thread!!! 
Thanks for making my day.
Nobody owns cats, dear…