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Hello
I have a 3 month old kitten that just won't use his scratching post
We made it at home, at first we bought rope that was made out of cotton, but that didn't seem to work much to me, since he couldn't really climb the pole with it, So we bough sisal rope, and rolled it on another longer pole and we attached it to the other pole, It's quite stable, That's how it looks like
He used to scratch on the chair behind the post in the photo so I put aluminum foil around the place he scratched in, I put him in my room at night and I close the door, so he is not allowed to roam the house unsupervised, So now once he's out of the room he goes to scratch our couch, still ignoring the post
But he does like to climb it, and play on it, and he scratched on it twice last week but no more
I've tried everything, When he scratches else where I say a stern NO and he does stop so I put him on the box of the post, but he just leaves
I scratched the post with my hands and he just goes after my hand
I gave him his favorite treat on the post but he still doesn't use it anyways
And I do clip his nails
I don't know what I can do to make him use the scratching post anymore
Any Ideas please??
I have a 3 month old kitten that just won't use his scratching post
We made it at home, at first we bought rope that was made out of cotton, but that didn't seem to work much to me, since he couldn't really climb the pole with it, So we bough sisal rope, and rolled it on another longer pole and we attached it to the other pole, It's quite stable, That's how it looks like
He used to scratch on the chair behind the post in the photo so I put aluminum foil around the place he scratched in, I put him in my room at night and I close the door, so he is not allowed to roam the house unsupervised, So now once he's out of the room he goes to scratch our couch, still ignoring the post
But he does like to climb it, and play on it, and he scratched on it twice last week but no more
I've tried everything, When he scratches else where I say a stern NO and he does stop so I put him on the box of the post, but he just leaves
I scratched the post with my hands and he just goes after my hand
I gave him his favorite treat on the post but he still doesn't use it anyways
And I do clip his nails
I don't know what I can do to make him use the scratching post anymore
Any Ideas please??