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I've posted in the past for ideas, but nothing seems to be working and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. My kitten refuses to scratch anything other than my carpet or couch. He has turned his nose up at the cardboard scratcher, he likes sleeping on the car tree but won't use the sisal post, and he ignores the weath style carpet post. I've tried putting thatt items near or on where he likes to scratch, running when catnip, blocking where he likes to scratch with pillows, and picking him up and putting him on where I'd like him to scratch. He just doesn't want to. He will move away and go right back to using the carpet (or the couch, if I'm laying on it). I don't know what to do to get him interested and I can't just keep buying scratching posts. I don't want to declaw and I don't think he's tolerate nail caps, but I can't have him destroying my furniture. How do you teach a cat to use a scratching post?