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Cat Scratches Roommate’s Bed, But She Has a Declawed Cat
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 have 2 other roommates besides this one, and both are allergic and don’t want cats in their room so they leave their doors open.
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.
How can I get her to stop scratching the bed?? I feel terrible and don’t want Ophelia to ruin her new bed and also don’t want to tell her what
EDIT: We tried putting her favorite scratching post near her bed corner, but Ophelia will still scratch the bed instead of the scratching post. Plus my roommate says there is no room for a scratching post really in our tiny college bedrooms..
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 have 2 other roommates besides this one, and both are allergic and don’t want cats in their room so they leave their doors open.
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.
How can I get her to stop scratching the bed?? I feel terrible and don’t want Ophelia to ruin her new bed and also don’t want to tell her what
EDIT: We tried putting her favorite scratching post near her bed corner, but Ophelia will still scratch the bed instead of the scratching post. Plus my roommate says there is no room for a scratching post really in our tiny college bedrooms..
