Cat help needed

[moonfroggy]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

[hammertime]

my cat has this... the legs of the tree are wrapped in twine/rope which he uses alot scratching..

http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Armar...1-ATM1010.html

i also have a few smaller cat posts that he scratches. he did used to scratch one chair pretty bad, but i just accepted it and let it be. i ended up selling the chair anyway, cat scratches and all

i declawed my first cat... not knowing what it was about and i was much younger and uneducated. when i adopted this cat 5yrs ago at 1.5yrs old, there was no way i was going to do that to him. he is a fine cat still, scratches things here and there but not too bad... but then again, i've got the huge tree and a few other posts to keep him busy.

good luck... sometimes it's just a matter of finding the right cat furniture for him to use, in addition to accepting that he's a cat... and you might lose some furniture by having him...

[bmccasland]

my cat has this... the legs of the tree are wrapped in twine/rope which he uses alot scratching..

http://www.allpetfurniture.com/Armar...1-ATM1010.html

I suppose if I truly loved my kitties, I'd remove the chair that's in front of the picture window in the livingroom and replace it with that. Thanks Hammertime. Don't give my cats any ideas.

[TsPoet]

All I can say is I'm thrilled that the chair is sick and the cat is healthy, and not the other way around!

[zoom-zoom]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

That reminds me of a cute story. A friend of ours isn't really a cat person, but used to work somewhere next to where a tortie was always seen. Eventually he made friends with this kitty and would bring "him" treats...gave him a masculine nickname, really bonded with the cat. Jason was telling us the story and I explained that torties and calicos are almost never male (I think the odds are something like less than 1/1000 and I believe they are sterile if they are male with that color scheme). Then Jason felt bad that he'd been assigning a masculine name to his little kitty girlfriend.

I agree that orange girls are special. I've seen a few, but they usually have that very pale orange coloration.

[footloose]

orange girl cats are very special. it is very rare genetically for girl cats to be orange and for boy cats to be calico. she is very special and very beautiful.

Hmmm...I'd never heard that about orange cats before although I knew about the calico ones.
I just was adopted by a orange female cat a week ago....just appeared in my garden one afternoon. I think she was dropped off as I live in a rural location. She had matted fur and was skin and bones...except for the part of her that is pregnant! A week later she is cleaned up and has gained weight and is loving her new basket to sleep in. She really enjoys my warm greenhouse too.

[footloose]

My Mom drapes pieices of plastic over furniture she doesn't want her cat to get on. He doesn't like the feel of the plastic I guess. If it was drape far enough it could cover the legs of your furniture also.

The sticky tape idea sounds good too.

All my cats have always been outdoor ones as I am quite allergic. They have a pet door in the door of my barn so they may come and go as they please and larger animals can't get their food and they have a safe place to run to if needed. I live out in the country though and have an acre of property for them to roam on. They have never shown any inclination to roam farther than that. Just empty farm fields around me and they are too well fed!