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My cat, Ophelia, really likes a certain fabric to scratch on and turns out my roommate has a couch and a bed that have that type of fabric. Ophelia will wonder into my roommate’s room and scratch her bed and it’s a brand new bed so obviously and rightfully, my roommate is upset about it
I trim her nails, and in the past we have tried nail caps but it caused further trauma and will avoid those at all costs. The easy solution would be for my roommate to keep her door closed, but she also has a cat, so it makes sense that she would want to keep her bedroom door open. However, her cat was declawed when she was spayed, so she doesn’t have claws and does no damage when she scratches.
I have no right to tell my roommate to put a scratching post by her bed, because I have one by the couch that she likes to scratch and sometimes she even avoids that (one of her favorite scratching fabrics, it’s like rolled rope) to scratch the couch, so we now have a couch cover on it.
We actually ended up trying a scratching post by her bed but we live in very small spaces (college housing) and there’s no room to put a cat scratcher there. We also tried this sticky plastic that protects/deters the cat from scratching but she just picks a new part of the bed to climb on, and the sticky tape isn’t that durable and falls off with blankets shifting during sleep or something else causing
We work together to keep her out of my roommates bedroom for right now, but when my roommate is carrying things into her room she needs two hands sometimes and Ophelia will BOLT in and hide under the bed because she knows she’s not supposed to be in there anymore.
I have two other roommates and Ophelia doesn’t try to get in there, but both cats are not allowed in those rooms and haven’t ever been allowed in there since we moved in. This keeping Ophelia out of her bedroom is new for her.
How can I get her to stop scratching the bed?? Or is it possible to keep her from wanting to go into that room, while the other cat is still allowed to come and go? Or even if the other cat cant come and go freely, how can I keep Ophelia from bolting in?
I feel terrible and don’t want Ophelia to ruin her new bed or constantly bolting in
I trim her nails, and in the past we have tried nail caps but it caused further trauma and will avoid those at all costs. The easy solution would be for my roommate to keep her door closed, but she also has a cat, so it makes sense that she would want to keep her bedroom door open. However, her cat was declawed when she was spayed, so she doesn’t have claws and does no damage when she scratches.
I have no right to tell my roommate to put a scratching post by her bed, because I have one by the couch that she likes to scratch and sometimes she even avoids that (one of her favorite scratching fabrics, it’s like rolled rope) to scratch the couch, so we now have a couch cover on it.
We actually ended up trying a scratching post by her bed but we live in very small spaces (college housing) and there’s no room to put a cat scratcher there. We also tried this sticky plastic that protects/deters the cat from scratching but she just picks a new part of the bed to climb on, and the sticky tape isn’t that durable and falls off with blankets shifting during sleep or something else causing
We work together to keep her out of my roommates bedroom for right now, but when my roommate is carrying things into her room she needs two hands sometimes and Ophelia will BOLT in and hide under the bed because she knows she’s not supposed to be in there anymore.
I have two other roommates and Ophelia doesn’t try to get in there, but both cats are not allowed in those rooms and haven’t ever been allowed in there since we moved in. This keeping Ophelia out of her bedroom is new for her.
How can I get her to stop scratching the bed?? Or is it possible to keep her from wanting to go into that room, while the other cat is still allowed to come and go? Or even if the other cat cant come and go freely, how can I keep Ophelia from bolting in?
I feel terrible and don’t want Ophelia to ruin her new bed or constantly bolting in