It is hard to find and expensive but cat leather is best…
The first person to start making furniture with scratching posts built in is going to be a mega-millionaire.
Not quite. I have something sort of like that in my shop. It’s perhaps more like cat scratching posts that you can arrange to look like book shelves or a coffee table. Ridiculously expensive so they never sell and I’m about to take them out of my product listing. But the only reason I mention it is because when I showed the product to my husband, his response was like yours but turned around. It was “WHY would you want encourage your cats to destroy your furniture?” He has a good point.
No-The first person to invent a cat that will not ignore top-of-the-line scratching posts in favor of your living room furniture is going to a mega-millionaire.
Well, I can’t suggest a cat resistant fabric. What I can say is that the cloth that they use in car seats? I bought a gaming chair that uses that type of cloth (the chair is sort of a bucket seat), and the cats love to claw it. They prefer it over anything else, they apparently love the feel.
After just the first day I put a blanket over it to protect it, but the cats will push aside the blanket at night or even get under the blanket edge just so they can sink their claws into the fabric. Chair cost me $150.
Microfiber! Microfiber! Microfiber!
And cats can very much damage leather. Oh. yes!
Fur.
Pit bull fur.
With a live pit bull still inside.
The several posts suggesting cast iron are on the right track.
How about industrial-weight chain mail?
I’m not a great cat lover, so it’s possible I might have an even better suggestion that cat lovers might find offensive. I recognize that any suggestion of getting them declawed is highly controversial and would instantly lead this thread into the Pit. Hence, I make the more modest suggestion . . .
Just cut their fucking paws off at the ankles.