To wean the cat to dry the furniture, offer it an alternative in the form of brakes. When you see that the pet began to spoil the sofa again, carefully crush his attention to the right place. You can use associative reinforcement in the form of delicacy. Also, an effective solution will be applied to the design for the sharpening cat's cohesives.
"Take and do" offers 3 instructions, how to independently make scratchs of varying degrees of complexity.
1. Simple: from cardboard
What will take:
- Low box of cardboard (you can use the cover from the packaging from under shoes)
- Corrugated cardboard sheets
- a pen
- Stationery knife or scissors
- Measuring tape and ruler
- PVA glue (it is non-toxic, so it can be used without fears in this case)
How to do:
- Take the tape and measure the width of the box.
- Then measure the height of the box.
- On the cardboard sheet, draw a strip corresponding to the measurements. Cut the resulting rectangle with a stationery knife. Attach the strip to the remaining sheet of cardboard and cut the rest by its contour. Their quantity depends on how big you have a box.
- Shill two stripes and put them in the box. Secure them in the side of the glue. Continue consistently gluitive strips. Last fasten the same as the first two.
2. Average complexity: from wood, twine and carpet
What will take:
- wooden plank
- jute twine (it's better to take a bottle)
- A piece of carpet
- Furniture stapler
- drill
How to do:
- A piece of carpet fasten around half the board with a furniture stapler.
- On the other half boards, screw the twine. First fasten the tip: hold it with one hand, and the second fix this position, wound over the rope. Then move the spiral. The remaining end is imposed inside with scissors.
- Decide with the place where the scraper will be located. For example, you can accommodate it on the wall. Drill a hole in the top of the board, grind the rope into it and hang out the design. Secure it so that it does not hang out during use.
3. Complex: from the pipe and the twine
What will take:
- Wooden Square Shape Board
- PVC pipe
- Pipe plug
- A piece of carpet size slightly more boards from all sides (about 10 cm)
- Jute Shpagat
- Metal corners (3 pcs.)
- Screws
- Screwdriver
- Furniture stapler
- glue (make sure it is non-toxic for people and animals)
- a pen
- stationery knife
How to do:
- From the wrong side of the carpet strictly in the center of the handle, mark the size of the pipe base. Cut the resulting circle.
- To the base of the pipe with the help of a screwdriver, attach 3 metal corners. Position them at an equal distance from each other so that the design is stable.
- Attach the pipe to the board using the screwdriver. Before this locate the board center, placing diagonal lines.
- Curtain the pipe into the hole in the carpet, and the ends will fasten it from the back side of the board using a furniture stapler.
- Start sticking the twine on the pipe, moving along the spiral from the bottom up. Make sure that the harnesses firmly fit to each other.
- When you get to the top, secure the twine. Put the plug. On top of it can stick a round cut carpet.
Tip: Attach a bow or any other toy to the scratchpool to attract the cat's attention.