How to wean a cat to tear wallpaper?

The “side effect” of the cat’s presence in the house is often spoiled wallpaper, which a cheerful tailed friend claws selflessly. In order not to be upset and not spend money on endless repairs, measures should be taken. Then you do not have to choose - either a cat or a decent view of the house.

The cat has its own reasons for cracking down on wall decoration, completely unrelated to the desire to avenge the owner for some reason.

• With the help of such a "wrecking" procedure, the pet sharpens its claws, removing their dead layers on the paper. Thanks to this, new sharp “sabers” appear on the fingers.
• Peeling wallpaper - physical education for the cat. Thanks to such activities, he is warming up.
• On the wallpaper, the "domestic tiger" hones the skill of releasing and retracting claws, embedded in its nature nature.
• Damaging the room, he marks the area with secretions from the sweat glands on his paws. This is manifested, including when there are several cats in the house, and each seeks to declare its right to be the master in the common territory. Cats do the same in the case when the wallpaper is new - they need the walls to have a familiar smell.
• Raiding them, the animal relieves nervous tension in case of stress. The reason may be the appearance in the house of a new pet or person.
• Sometimes wall designs fall prey to cat's boredom and the habit of tearing paper off walls from a young age.

There are several ways to make an impression to your beloved Barsik or Murka.

• If you catch a pet because it scratches the wallpaper, you should besiege it with a loud short word - “Stop!”, “It is impossible!” and so on.
• You can use another sharp sound, for example, rattles or tins with pebbles (coins). Suitable things will have to be kept ready for a while.
• If the cat tears the wallpaper in the same area, the owners attach a balloon at the "sore spot" so that the pet pierces its claws along the vandalism. Frightened by the characteristic clap, many cats no longer try to strip off their favorite places.
• The war for order in the house is waged using a water gun or spray gun. If the fluffy bandit stretched his claws to the wallpaper, it remains to pull the trigger and spray on the pet. Cats, which by nature are not happy with a cold shower, are then afraid to be naughty.
• You can stop the purring from wallpaper using the smell of oranges or tangerines. If you spray on a decorative paper layer with onions or vinegar, the effect will be the same, but it is already unpleasant for people. To avoid discomfort, you can use turmeric, paprika, cloves or cinnamon. This smell is much nicer, but the cat repels no worse.
• An effective tool experienced cat owners call a mixture of oils of lemon (mandarin) and eucalyptus. They are added to the spray gun and sprayed onto the walls. You can also use a deodorant with citrus aromas. To rid the pet of a bad habit, the owners even use advanced technical means. At special points of sale, you can purchase a device that includes a motion sensor and a can of gas. When the four-legged Skoda approaches the wall, the sensor is triggered and the cat is doused with a fragrant repeller. Even if the owner is not at home, “anti-dodal therapy” continues anyway.
• You can put a board against the wall, pasted with the same wallpaper as on the decorated surface, the tidiness of which is so important for home owners. This method was proposed by the famous cat trainer Yuri Kuklachev. The "trick" should be exactly where the tailed bandit "rages". After a few days, you can remove the board to another place where it is not visible to people entering the house. And the cat, in theory, should turn its attention to this subject.
• Some owners paste double-sided tape on the walls. The trick is that the cat’s paws get dirty with the sticky composition found on scotch tape, which the clean-tailed creature does not like very much. Although this approach has a flip side. Wallpaper can be cut off by tape itself, or the cat will find a new place for "fucking."
• It must be borne in mind that the behavior of the animal largely depends on how much attention the owners pay to it. That the pet was not bored and was not attracted to entertainment such as stripping wallpaper, you need to play with him more. A tired cat after active fun will restore the energy expended, plunging into a sound sleep, instead of attacking the walls. Also, do not forget to praise the pet at any opportunity, talk with him, periodically pet.
• It is really important for pussies to sometimes sit on their owner’s lap and get their portion of pleasant tactile sensations. The animal falls into a peaceful state, ceases to be chronically nervous, and the problem with wallpaper sometimes disappears by itself. And if a new animal has appeared in the house, especially if this is another cat, you need to correctly reduce the "mustachioed-tailed" so that the "owner" does not feel jealousy for the "new one" and does not try to let him know with all his might: here everything is mine!

If all efforts to re-educate the cat do not lead to the desired result, it makes sense to at least minimize the damage that its claws are capable of causing. You can, for example, select materials for wall decoration, taking into account their resistance to mechanical stress.

• Liquid wallpaper. This is a special mixture of cellulose, which is applied to the surface like paint.To tear such a decor is inconvenient.
• Glass cloth wallpaper. Created on the basis of glass fibers, durable and resistant to claws. The good thing is that they can be coated and washed many times. If anything, returning them to their original beautiful appearance will not be as difficult as if the walls were glued with paper wallpaper.
• Wallpaper for painting. It is better to choose smooth ones, so that it is more difficult for a cat to hook them with a claw.
• Vinyl wallpapers. The likelihood that they will be able to withstand cat attacks for a long time is high. The solution may be even more elegant. Around the perimeter of the entire apartment, lay tiles or trim the bottom of the walls with decorative stone.

Another not very pleasant way is to cut the claws of the pet. This can only be done with a special tool designed for cat “manicure”. If there is no cropping skill, it is advisable to entrust this matter to a veterinarian who knows exactly how to avoid damage to a blood vessel in the area of ​​the claw. Although you can not guarantee that this procedure will succeed. Some cats are so resistant to claw trimming that it is almost impossible to do. But if the pet passed the test, it should be encouraged with something tasty.

You can buy a scratching post or make it yourself. In theory, such a device should be in the house when the kitten is still small. It’s easier to train him to hone “sabers” on such a subject. If the cat is an adult, it is not always possible to quickly show him all the advantages of the clawfish.

In appearance, these items are different. A claw claw can be the easiest - like a flat box. But even if the usual logs are wrapped with rope, this is already a thing useful for a cat. You can make such a device in the form of a column on which it will be convenient for a tailed pet to hang, holding on to it with sharp claws.

In some houses, where there is a lot of free space, entire game complexes for pets are formed. They include rugs, houses, loungers, turrets, allowing you to jump from one “top” to another or get from place to place through special transitions. Here, animals warm up, getting the opportunity to feel fully predators, relieve nervous tension, and, importantly, are far from the wall with wallpaper.

Put the simplest “wallpaper lightning rod” in the place where attacks on the walls take place. When there are several such places, then the claw-point will need more than one. If the cat always sleeps in a certain corner, the device needs to be placed nearby so that after waking up, it immediately “warms up” on it. Then he will not be tempted to look for some other subject for physical exercises. To begin to draw attention to the scratching post, you can make it smell like catnip.

The cat, who does not understand the principle of the claw’s action, needs to be brought up to it and to clearly show how to use it - take the pet’s paws with your hands, put it on the object and hold it several times so that the cat releases its claws. When the animal uses the thing correctly, it should be praised and given something tasty.

When waging a struggle for order in the house, it should be borne in mind that the cat is not the beast that can be threatened or forbidden. Weaning from the habit of tearing wallpapers, a number of mistakes should be avoided.

• You cannot physically punish an animal. If you "put the cat on the pope", you can soon find a puddle in your own slippers or even in bed. Or the pet will take revenge in another no less obvious way.
• You can’t throw away the old one immediately after buying a new scratching post. The cat should smell the usual smell until it fills it with a new object.
• When an exuberant “obedral” is suggested, it is necessary to focus on intonations, and not on the volume of the voice. It is useless to shame a pet when he has already stopped doing dirty tricks and walked away from the wall. The "domestic tiger" does not understand why they reprimand him.

It is easiest to teach respectful attitude to the situation of the house of a small kitten, if you pay enough attention to its upbringing, from the very beginning showing the limits of what is permitted. It is the easiest way to teach a kid to special subjects for a warm-up or “manicure”. But even if the cat got into the house as an adult, with a set of not the best habits, there are still chances to maintain order and teach the pet to live by the rules.

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