Stop cats from scratching furniture - genius DIY hack on TikTok

Created: 05/21/2022, 15:00

By: Nina Marie Jarosch

A woman uses a clever DIY hack to keep her cat from scratching the furniture.

The video of it went viral and was hailed as "awesome" on TikTok.

USA - Cats love to sharpen their claws: on scratching posts, scratching boards or - much to the chagrin of their owners - on furniture.

One woman's ingenious home improvement project designed to discourage her cats from doing just that has garnered widespread online plaudits.

On her TikTok account "permablep" she shares her clever idea, which inspires millions of viewers.

Stop cats from scratching furniture - genius DIY hack on TikTok

Claw sharpening is a completely normal and instinctive behavior for cats.

On the one hand, they express their feelings such as joy, mark something with their smell or remove dead parts of their claws.

But when the velvet paw has chosen the new sofa for the comforting claw sharpening, it can even bring tears to the eyes of the most understanding cat owner.

The TikTok user "permablep" came up with something ingenious for exactly this.

To keep her cats from scratching the furniture, a woman comes up with an ingenious idea.

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The 27-second video shows her cat clawing at a 5-foot stretch of wall in a corner that's completely upholstered in brown carpet.

The cat happily scratches the carpet wall with both paws while the TikToker tells more about the hack she invented.

"I'm not going to tell you what to do, but I'll tell you what I'm doing, and I've carpeted one wall.

And do you know why I did that?

It was only a little over five dollars because it was on sale at Lowe's.” And the cat seems to like the idea.

Stop cats from scratching furniture - "Hang a rug on the wall!"

During the clip, the cat happily scratches and bites the carpet wall again and again.

"They stopped scratching all the walls and furniture and I didn't have much space because my room is really small," the woman continues in the video.

“They love this damn thing.

So be crazy

Hang a rug on the wall.

Who's going to stop you?” Just before the film ends, the cat is seen running away.

In a comment, the TikTok user also reveals that she fixed the carpet with small nails that leave only small holes and are easy to fix without the landlord noticing.

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Keep cats from scratching furniture - "That's a great idea"

With her clever DIY hack, the woman seems to have struck a chord – and not just with cat owners.

In a very short time, the clip has been viewed 9.2 million times and received over 1.6 million likes.

The TikTok community is enthusiastic and there are over 8,100 comments on the brilliant idea.

Here is a small selection:

• "You have a climbing wall for your kids (cats), you're a cool mom."

• "That's a great idea."

• "The cat is definitely crazy about that wall."

• "I don't even have a cat, and I feel like I need a carpeted wall."

• “I love this idea so much and now I want to do this for my cats too.

  🥰”

• "This is so awesome, I'm in the process of moving to a tiny studio, my cat would love it."