Our cat doesn't scratch the furniture intentionally (luckily). He is good about using his scratching thing or the dog bed, so I don't really have any advice for you. We do have a problem in that he leaves little claw marks all over the new leather furniture when he leaps up on it and doesn't quite make it. Or when he does a running leap onto the ottoman and has to grip with his claws to avoid flying off the other side. One chair and the ottoman are littered with puncture holes!

Any suggestions? We can't use tape and still be able to sit in the chair. Training him to stay off the furniture is an unlikely scenario as well. We do trim his claws, but that just makes it worse as he grips harder doing more damage when they don't stick in right away!

Do the little claw covers really work??

I may have to have a video camera ready for the first time he leaps onto the ottoman with claw covers on!