Cat Tearing Up Carpet With Teeth

You can also use furniture and carpets to block off access to wires and certain corners of your house where you may keep something that s tempting to your cat s chewing instinct jones says.

Cat tearing up carpet with teeth. Do not tear the carpet up from your staircase. I cut it to fit snuggly around the door frame so that when the door is closed the mat sticks out on both sides. The cat will just scratch at the wood beneath. But we don t want him to ingest it so our stairs are lined with duct tape argh.

Train your cat out of scratching the staircase carpet. The other cat pulls at the edges of the berber carpet on the stairs and yanks out the vertical threads which is thin strong fiber like floss. A sisal scratching post may be a good choice here. For scratching that takes place in front of an entryway cover the area with a thin mat.

If possible move a piece of furniture or a scratching post to your cat s favorite carpet spot. He won t let us brush his teeth and we wonder if he is flossing with this stuff. This involves providing alternative scratching surfaces such as cat trees and posts. The kind with the little teeth on the underside of it.

Cover up the spot where your cat scratches.