Cat Owners!

[ellenmillion]

I have a burning question for cat owners.

How the hell do you keep them out of a recliner? I've already shut Velcro into the inner workings of our double recliner twice now, and I'm deadly afraid I'm going to squash something vital one of these times. We chase her out whenever we catch her headed under the footrest, but she still manages to squirrel under there when we aren't paying attention. One of the times I shut her in, she stayed there overnight… I couldn't figure out why she wasn't downstairs meowing for food the next morning until I heard her weak, pathetic meows from the loveseat. You'd think she'd learn, but I don't have much faith in the memory of felines, and she's had to be extricated since then.

In other cat news, Velcro got into her stash of catnip, chewed open the bags, and spread it across the downstairs. I was so grateful that she didn't destroy the toilet paper that was on the same shelf (being dangerously low of the precious material) that I didn't do much but throw out the chewed up bags.

Comments

[ratauvan.livejournal.com]

Try spraying it with perfume (obviously a scent that you don't object to yourself ;p). It's what I used to stop my cats from sharpening their nails on my ironing board.

Lemme know if it works ok?

[mirar.livejournal.com]

I don't have a recliner. But I noticed that my cats doesn't like certain things, for instance orange peel. So wherever I have something I really don't want them to play with, I put some orange peel there. :-)

Maybe you know of something that Velcro doesn't like?

[fireborn.livejournal.com]

I've heard most cats avoid cloves -- we've used them successfully, anyway, a time or two.

[delusiongirl.livejournal.com]

I would say, try to stick something in there that takes up the space so she can't use it for a comfy hidey hole. An empty box, or crumpled up paper that just makes it too much trouble to get in there, but doesn't impair the recliner function.

Bootsie used to like to crawl in the recliner too. Then he got trapped a couple of times and decided he'd better wise up and quit getting in there, rather than rely on the humans to rescue him. ;-)

[samanthagms.livejournal.com]

Our cat and the previous one both used to get under the recliner too. The one we have now can't do it anymore because she's too fat, so now she has a better idea. Our new recliner is leather and I don't know if anyone else's cat is the same way but with ours any type of leather is a coveted object and it stirs up a drooling frenzy. So the cat gets in the seat of the chair and rocks herself (it's one of those dual purpose rocker-recliners). Once she's there she will NOT move.

We've had her declawed but there is no way to remove her from a place she wants to be unless you want to lose a chunk of flesh...