Top 5 Best Cat Scratch Deterrents (We Tried Them All)
If your cat has been destructively scratching items in your home, you may need a scratch deterrent to help you to redirect that behavior to an appropriate surface.
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0:00 Introduction
1:45 Overall Best: KatSupreme Double-Sided Scratch Deterrent Tape
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3:55 Runner Up: KatSupreme Scratch Deterrent Sheets with Pins
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5:02 Best Startling Deterrent: PetSafe SSSCat Deterrent Spray
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6:47 Best Pheromone Spray: Comfort Zone Scratch Deterrent & Calming Spray
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8:19 Best Deterrent Mat: Fukumaru Scratch Mat
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9:55 Tips for Success
11:35 Conclusion
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People with wooden legs must have a serious issue, as the cat probably claws it to show how much they love their friends.
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Gary Larson cartoon, lol...
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Oh, CATain Ahab!
I love Wessie’s face in the thumbnail!!
Omg Wessie is such a patient cat!
Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your great video, I have literally bought all the things you mentioned, I have the safari hair brush, the teardrop stainless steel water fountain, the litter scooper, the treats, the toys and even the Roomba you recommend. Everything has always been the best! Love your videos!
I haven't tried it myself but a friend used plastic protectors that you can buy to put on top of entryway mats. She put the bumpy side up. It didn't hurt her cats. They just didn't like the texture. She used them on her countertops and her furniture, using double-sided tape, draping them or tying them to keep them in place. She just moved them when she wanted to use the space and put them back after. Once her cats had developed the habit of using the cat scratchers, she removed the mats for longer and longer periods of time. If the cats showed any signs of interest, she covered the spot again and when she got new pieces of furniture, she'd drape them right away. Eventually, she was able to remove them completely. She said that it also worked with dogs.
Always so great! Thanks for kept on keeping on! 💝😻😻😻😻
The IKEA LURVIG scratching mat for USD $11 is amazing for vertical scratchers as it can be wrapped around table legs and so it's space-saving.
Thankyou for all the good advice 😊
The ssscat spray is a holy grail product. It's been a great way to stop counter surfing especially.
Love your videos! Thank you!!
I have a boy and a girl both 2 years old. My girl is a scratcher, my boy only scratches their cardboard scratcher. Last week I started teaching my girl No scratch whenever she scratches the kitchen cabinets next to their food bowl letting me know she wants food. She’s making a lot of progress and every time she does good I praise her and give them treats. Today she sat next to the food bowl and meowed at me! 😃 I’m also teaching her not to scratch my bedroom door when I’m sleeping. Now when she does scratch my door my boy cat will jump on her to make her stop! 😅
Great info, thank you😻
I really like the video, wonderful.
Awesome review!
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You can take the motion sensor off he ssscat can and use a small can of compressed air that you see at office supply stores to clean keyboards. You just have to turn the can w/the motion sensor upside down. Also, I've never paid that much for the feliway spray. So it has probably jumped a lot in price recently. It's amazing, I used to pay around $12 for it. The best thing I've used is the double sided tape, although the brand I used was whisker city I think and it was very cheap and came with a lot of strips.
I recently moved and the couch here happens to be the one where my first cat used to scratch up on. It always makes my heart feel full when I see my two newer kitties, scratching up the exact same spot :) Allowing them to do this is actually feels like a positive but I"d definitely try that KatSupreme tape on any future couches
I wonder if this woman has a similar channel devoted to dogs? I like cats and dogs both, and she has really good information.
I actually bought that pheromone spray to try and deter my cat from spraying (yes, he is neutered, no it is not a medical condition), and while I think it works (seems to anyway - he's kinda unpredictable in where he decides to spray since we clean everything up all the time), if you're allergic or perhaps were once allergic to cats (I was and then my body adjusted), I found that this spray actually bothered me respitoraly and made me cough. I'd always kind of noticed it, but once I put together a cat tree and spritzed it all over to make sure he didn't spray on it, I found myself coughing a lot more than normal and had to leave the room to recover. Just a random FYI!
My cats are clawing my kitchen cabinets. Thanks for the tips. I'll be trying them out.
Cats from my past never scratched furniture. These sisters do, with joy and abandon. It's easy to teach a cat where to scratch, but you have to start right away, before the habit takes hold. I'm old now, and lazy, and didn't do it this time. They use their post a lot but also had a blast shredding the couch. Now they have their eyes on the chair that would still pass if I covered it. Your video is the first one to offer a realistic solution, thank you. I didn't know they had such a thing! I've already ordered it. Maybe I'll get a new slipcover for Christmas (hint hint)!
Thanks for the reviews! We are looking into the navigator backpack a lot as it is advertised for 2 cats! Would you say it can acoomodite 2 cats for hikes? One is 7 months kitten and one year old one 😻😻
Oooh I wonder if the double sided scratch sheets would be good for my counter defense system.
so what would be the best thing to use for the door jams because that's where my I have quite a few cats and that's where they like to scratch they've already messed up the fancy wood on two of the door jambs that are going to have to be sanded but I don't want it to get any worse any further meanwhile before I can get it sanded
Hi, can you please suggest a good non clumping litter for kittens. Some of your old recommendations are no longer being sold and I’m not sure what would best for my kittens
Hola❤ I love your content and Cat❤. I was browsing on your playlists. Have you done a review for ORIJEN? Please please 💪
Not yet!
to continue the door jambs or vertical and they're made of pine and had a molded design so now whenever I can find somebody who could send it right to repair it or or if it is not repairable I'll have to find someplace where they sell true Wood pinewood and then match the pattern to the rest of the doors and room.. so yes it is upsetting and I do need a big deterrent for this.. I have to put something on some of the other door jambs too should I use tape that's what I was already thinking about before I saw this video. I am going through so much right now I don't need any more problems and even though I love my cats Dearly, I'm upset with them doing this. I do care more about them than I do with the wall though door jambs. it's just that it's such a big job to repair.. So can that tape that you suggested in the beginning help this do you think?? Mallory, thanks for your help and your videos and I hope you'll be able to reply to this thank you
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Barb!
The more I watch your channel, the more I like it. Thanks for the great content.
Im getting a cat soon and im getting the comfort zone spray the smaller one tho thats only 14.99. Just in case my cat wants to scratch anything and i cant buy any of the first you showed because almost all are furniture is leather so im hoping the cat will not be interested. Because its leather but well see 🤞love your videos you’ve really prepared me for getting my first cat 💕😁😊
I saw a mat on Amazon once that had two options. One was the electric shock, which I didn't like the idea of, but the other was a loud sound. I thought that was better, sort of like the hiss of air, but I didn't buy it because I figured it would startle me more than the cats, especially when they set it off in the middle of the night.
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Just what I've been looking for! My Suzy is developing a nasty habit of scratching my Lazy Boy chair. Mallory, the shot of you trying to get your cat to scratch the chair made me LOL! I also loved the footage of you testing out the shock mat. 😅
My cat likes to scratch any carpeted area and all of my upstairs is carpeted including the stairs which he commonly scratches. Best recommendation for that, please? I find new strands of pulled out carpet especially on the stairs daily.
I am getting desperate, my cat scratches all the fabric furniture. I have scratchy poles which she doesn't use and I have tried the sticky mat with the pins attaching them. She is so intelligent she took the pins out with her teeth, thankfully I caught her doing it. She likes the cardboard scratchers but not the jute scratchy poles. I don't want to use sprays with her because she has an asthma problem. Do you have any other suggestions please. I know she is probably bored but has loads of toys which i rotate. I want to get another scratchy pole but only have a small space. What do you think?
How do you keep cats off the stove/counter tops? Since we cannot use tape or sprays? It seems to be the only thing that may work is the compressed air?
I've got one of those SmartCat Ultimate Scratching Posts and 99.9% my cats won't scratch anything but the post, as I praise them EVERY time they use it. I can be in the kitchen and one will run into the middle room and can hear them scratching the post... and I'll loudly holler "SCRATCHY POST! SCRATCHY POST! Good Girl!". They love the post so much that I even took one that was pretty used up over a couple of years and instead of tossing it in the trash, I took the bottom base off and laid it on it's side in my living room and they love to stand on it and scratch as well. Now one of my cats has this fascination with my laundry room in my apartment and I keep the door closed and she scratches at the corner of the carpet at the door. Thinking I might try the double sided tape recommended here to see if that helps any.
Can you test and see if cats really like the HuggieKitty, plush cat that purrs and heats I seen an ad for it on FB but I'm not sure cats lwould ike it
States are passing laws that declawing a cat is illegal, it's been illegal in NYS, the 1st, since July 22nd, 2019.
Thank goodness we can let our cat out in the garden, where she loves to patrol her domain. She pretty much gets all her scratching "itches" fixed outside 😸
Ssscat device and 1 can is 50 bucks. The canned air refill is $15. However, it can be refilled with a tire valve($3) and bike pump infinitely though. There's a tutorial on here. I used one to keep my cat from trying to get in my door at night. It only took a couple times and she stopped. Worth it for not waking up every night.
A single can of Ssscat is $49.99 because it includes the motion sensor spray head. But yes it’s still too expensive and so are the replacement air cans.
I have problems with mine scratching trim around doors and my wooden end table legs. Surprisingly they don’t bother my couch and chairs
Cat nip and scratch posts here. I've had to yell maybe 5 times, that's it. OMG I'm so getting the electric mat. Great stuff as always M.
I hope that you are getting the electric mat in order to train YOURSELF rather than to torture your poor cat! Have you ever thought about rehoming your cat?
@@ethicscannie5716 But if i rehome the cat then I can't use the shock pad :(
@@joey86bu1 Precisely!!!
I tried the PetSafe SSSCat Deterrent Spray. I think it scared me more than it scared my cats lol
So I tried that double-sided, sticky tape and found out that my cat likes to eat tape of all kinds lol no problem!
2:24 - 2:31 Wessie: I don't get paid enough for this.
I bought Paulato couch and chair covers they are kind of expensive but cats do not scratch on them YAYYYYYYYYY 😁
Well, making your own cat food is an option(at least supplement with it) if you eat meat and fish yourself cleaning animals yourself is much cheaper for you anyway and you can use fish carcasses, scraps from larger animals, lean organ meat like heart etc. And just make your own cat food with that, in case of carcasses boil it with some water till the bones get soft, then put it in jars and put them in hot water to pasteurize them, in case of scraps, or anything without bones just cut it up, put it in jars, fill up with some water or broth, maybe add a lil fish oil, close the glasses and put them in a hot water bath to get cooked directly in the glass, that way they don't go bad as fast. Alternatively just cook everything in a pot, package however you like and freze it. If you want to sustain your cat on this and not just supplement the regular cat food a quality vitamin and mineral mix would be crucial, ideally put the vitamins in before serving cause heat stability and shelf life are limited, while with minerals that's really a non issue
Just the information I need my little bangle keeps scratching my very expensive leather couch
Don't forget that many of these products do NOT work on leather.
I came here for solid recommendations. Not sponsored content.
Then go somewhere else
Just watching this video that compressed air can startled my cat!
One of mine loves place rugs and has yet to destroy one so I just look at her and say "as you were." All of the rugs were provided by friends or family and I was like "My cat will probably destroy it" they were okay with it and I am still wondering how she has not destroyed any of them.
How about tin foil to cover a leather sofa temporarily until my new cat gets used to the scratching post, etc I’ll put next to it?
YES! This is perfect.
My orange tabby finds scratch;h mats irresistible. As in, she will see it, scratch it, then about 2 min later, go back to it to scratch it more. I wish I knew earlier. She no longer bothers the couch anymore.
Cat Deterrent? Woof!
My Sons Cat " Tyr " has successfully ripped most of the wallpaper off our staircase !! My Son has bought numerous Cat scratch poles , which Tyr very rarely uses , She seems 2 prefer our staircase wallpaper 😂 . Its pretty quiet @ the minute because my Son has moved out , & obviously taken Tyr with him - & i miss Her So , So much 😢 . ✌️Out
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the problem with the sticky tape is that it attracts dust. If you live in an environment such as we do (desert), this won't work.
My cats ruined the box springs of all our beds, grandma's couch and all our computer swivel chair upholstery. How about you?
So disappointed that the ssscat spray is so expensive and there aren’t really many similar reliable alternatives, not to mention all the reviews I read on it are terrible, saying it broke immediately after purchase or ran out way too quickly. I looked into it a while ago to try to keep our cat away from the front door while we are not at home, as when he gets bored he goes up to the door and tries to jiggle the handle and open it. Our front door only has a handle lock (no deadbolt) and by doing this he could easily open it and let himself or the dog out. I’d love a video for products or ways to keep cats away from off-limits areas such as this or off counter tops.
Can the single side be removed and reapplied easily? Or Is it a one time use?
One time, really; it won't stick too well after the first time.
Got it.. plastic film that my cat will likely just chew on, an air cannon that will make my cat more skittish than he already naturally is, hollistic hippy spray, or scratching pad. Already have a 5 story cat jungle and scratch heaven jungle gym. All of this from someone whos cat doesnt scratch and therefore they couldn't actually test it. Someone owes me 12 minutes back 😂
having a $3,000 couch & seeing cats dig their claws & pull just makes me so sad lol, living with roommates & it being their own cats makes it hard to control & tell the cats no so definitely trying to find a good spray😅 my relationship with cats is definitely not a good one
The Sscat compressed air didn't work for us- the cats eventually walked around it or jumped over it..and it didn't always go off when it was supposed to. Meh 🤷🏻♀️
Cats are soooo smart!
Good point. I did notice that the motion activation was pretty inconsistent, so this makes sense. Hmm...will keep this in mind for the future. Thanks for sharing.
My cats have already autographed the sofa and chairs. Luckily they are made from black faux leather so black duct tape covers the holes nicely. That electric mat thing is just horrible. I could never, ever do anything that would hurt my cats. Furniture can be replaced but our precious cats can't.
We spend a lot of money to repair our house sofa 😊.
My cats started to bite and eat the sticky tape, even when it was fresh. I ended up just wrapping the sofa exterior in sisal rope that I died to match the floor of the sofa
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Economic choice: don't get cats get dogs they're low maintenance
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My cat is the most stubborn thing in the damn world. She doesn't scratch where she shouldn't be but damn she does not stay off my counters no matter what I do. The only thing thats worked so far is a shock collar. Little turd has figured out or not cared about every single other deterrent I've used.
I don't care if my cat scratches on anything. He doesn't scratch much.
Good for you and your cat. :)
my ex roommate bought a sscat can for my cat who liked to get on the counter to scare him off it without my permission. he has anxiety issues that have resulted in urinary problems and did not react well to it at all. of course my roommate didn't talk to me about this and get this info from me. it definitely doesn't work for every cat. needless to say, we don't live together anymore 🤷🏼♀️
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Wow awesome content. What works for me is the *kshhhh" sound. Thats like a no sound for them, coming from a asian background we mainly use noises and clicks (like the language the african bushmans speak) click click clak clak oop broop.. jk half jking haha. But we do the dic dic and it comes and we do many other sort of sounds to deter them or encourage and pursuade them to come or kiss or cuddle etc. We also use english words too, mixture of both. Also I finally know your age! Same as me! 95' or 94' child 😃
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Do you even have cats at home? Cats no dumb, should you only know. *None of the products shown would ever work!!!* _Trust me._ 😜😜😝😝😞😞
It looks like I was right... once again. Lots of whiny, overly emotional negative comments and childish name calling with no reasonable back up for anything you have written. When I was a child, my dad had an accident with his power saw. The accident cost him three of his fingers. When he returned home from the hospital, the first words out of his mouth were these: "There is no use in crying over spilled milk". Even my cat can understand the meaning of these words. You people act like I have purposely damaged my cat. You would think that I had requested the vet to remove her front legs. Do what my dad did... Grow up, get a life and get over it. Mine is the happiest cat in the world. My leather couch is happy too.
One trip to the vet and voila! Problem solved. (I know I am going to get hammered for this comment)
Then why say it and look like an animal abuser?
I hope that you meant that you asked your vet to find a new home for your poor cat!
@@doggolovescheese1310 Actually, the veterinarian who preformed the surgery is the abuser. I am just the owner who no longer has to put up with the feline version of assault with bodily injury or willful destruction of private property.
@@doggolovescheese1310 And look like an animal abuser to who? Apparently you have mistaken me for someone who cares about what some left wing, snowflake has to say. I "rescued" this cat, from the pound, over eleven years ago. She is an indoor only cat and we love each other very much.
@@ethicscannie5716 Nope. I "rescued" this cat, from the pound, over eleven years ago. She is an indoor only cat and we love each other very much. Her toes are a bit shorter but she gets around at lightning speed. No harm done except in YOUR mind.