Cat scratching and endearing behavior

If one of your cats is scratching things it shouldn't, chances are you're not happy and you're wondering what to do. The answer is straightforward: buy Natural Scratch or another good post or build one yourself and then train your cat to claw only where you want it to, much as you would train a child not to draw pictures on the walls.

Natural Scratch comes with a brief booklet that trains people how to train their cats. It has worked well for many.

What is endearing is a cat that does what you have trained it to do--that's nice and not terribly hard to achieve--and one that does the unexpected. Our white cat Leo whom I sometimes call the polar bear because of his color, recently purred heavily into the phone so our daughter Ann who is in Australia could hear him. She got a major kick out of it.

BTW, Leo's far from perfect. Even though he certainly knows better, now and then he'll scratch something he shouldn't just to get our attention. He does this very infrequently now because he knows it will *definitely* lead to a short stay in what we call cat jail.