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| 948.1 | It worked for me ! | SHIRE::CEHRS | | Mon Dec 07 1987 16:27 | 21 |
| Hi Robin,
Here is my experience with cats and leather furniture. Now you and
I know, that cats are very indepenent and cannot be put into "one
bag". Anyhow, I have two cats and made the same experience wi�h
both of them. When I got my first cat (13 years ago) as a kitten
she would shred all my couches/armchairs (not leather) apart trying
do do her "nails". I decided to buy some leather furniture then
(for the visitors to sit in!!!!). She never touched the leather
furniture, but continued to tear apart the other! Eleven years ago
a got my second cat. He started right in on the non-leather
furniture...By then I did not mind anylonger - my first cat had
already ruined it anyhow. After about one year I decided to remove
all non-leather armchairs/couches from my house and go "leather
only"! You imagine the trepidations.... Well, both of them have
never touched leather. The only scratches I find on it are purely
accidental - they jump up on it try to break with their claws -
and well there is a little scratch, that is all.
I hope you'll have the same experience.
Good luck.
Martha
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| 948.2 | astronaut cats and leather furniture | GEMVAX::GRANT | | Mon Dec 07 1987 16:46 | 11 |
| None of my cats bother the leather chairs we have. However, none
of them are real furniture scratchers, either, since they much prefer
their scratching post.
The only problem we have with the leather is when Sly (a real
chunk of a cat) decides to play astronaut kitty, and blasts off
from the top of one of the leather chairs. That usually leaves little
pinprick marks, but they are barely noticeable.
Marleen
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| 948.3 | Teenage kitties in bondage... | JAWS::COTE | Sequencists are musicians too! | Mon Dec 07 1987 17:06 | 10 |
| Aja regularly does the claw act on anything handy. While I don't
have any leather furniture, I do have a couple leather jackets.
Occasionally she'll jump up on my shoulder and, thought not clawing
at it, will leave a little mark just from holding on. I'd suspect
it would be the same for leather furniture.
I don't think she'd ever harm leather. She just loves it. Methinks
she has a fetish....
Edd
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| 948.4 | a not so good incident | FIDDLE::HTAYLOR | Fight malnutrition, GIMME CHOCOLATE! | Tue Dec 08 1987 08:26 | 8 |
|
I hate to say this, after hearing all of the good stories about
cats and leather, but my Fiance's cat loves leather. She completely
ruined his leather jacket. There are claw marks all down the back
where she tried to "do her nails". Well, as the say, No two cats
are alike. Good luck with your furniture.
Holly
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| 948.5 | No Problem | SALES::RFI86 | Pime doesn't cray | Tue Dec 08 1987 11:09 | 4 |
| as with the first three our cats do not touch the leather furniture
even though they go nuts on anything with a cloth covering.
Geoff
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| 948.6 | Landing gear locked...slide!!!! | CLUSTA::TAMIR | To a cat, all things belong to cats | Sun Dec 13 1987 13:56 | 14 |
| Robin,
Wanna come by and see my leather chair and otterman?? The boys
all love it. While they don't openly claw it (the scratching posts
are much better for that!), they do use it as a launching pad and
as a result, it's pretty scratched up. At least it's easy to get
the cat fur off!!
Maybe it depends on the leather....mine is covered with alleged
"glove leather"...easily marked, perhaps. I think that when they
jump on it, the smooth surface tends to make the "landing gear"
slide. I dunno...I wouldn't buy another one myself.
Mary
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