¿Cómo hacer que tu GATO use su RASCADOR y deje de arañar tus muebles? 😼💅

For all of you who are telling me, oh, my cat doesn't use the scratching post, how can I get him to use it? Well, today I've worked hard to bring you the most important keys from start to finish so that your cat uses the scratching post in a video. I hope I'll keep it short. Hi, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Even if you see me dressed like an insurance salesman. For many cats, the scratching post is that great unknown that you buy them with all your love, but that ends up in a corner of your house collecting dust. To prevent this from happening to you, I've identified the four reasons why cats don't use the scratching post and I've brought them all here condensed into a video so that you can use it whenever you want. The keys are in order. You have to look from the first to the last. If the first one is fine, we move on to the next. If it's not, you change it and move on to the next one. Okay, let's go with the first one. Number one, the scratching post shouldn't be stable. Most cats don't use their scratching post because whatever you buy them, well, it's only slightly stable. Honestly, I don't want to get into what you buy or don't buy. Each person has their own thing, but you have to make sure that the materials are of good quality and that the scratching post is stable. Remember that for a cat to use it, it has to apply light pressure with its paws to get its claws out and scratch. If the scratching post moves, that scares it and that's why it doesn't want to use it. That's one of the main problems we find with cat scratching posts. Whatever the scratching post is, anchor it well to the surface where it's placed. Make sure your cat can't move it. How can you do this with screws in the floor? Well, listen, it may not be the most comfortable thing to do, but if you put double sided tape on it and stick the scratching post to the floor when the cat leans on it, it won't be able to move it. You can test the strength or. Well, each person has to find their own way. Because I'm a veterinarian, not a DIY expert. Does your scratching post meet these requirements? Then join me on the next one. If it doesn't, anchor it to the floor and move on to the next point with me. The smells well or the scratching post is very new. Many times it's because you have very little patience with cats and you write me a comment the day after you took it out of the box saying, oh my God, my cat doesn't use it. Wait a bit for the cat to start seeing it as part of its environment. But if the days go by and you see that your cat doesn't pay any attention to it and the scratching post is securely anchored to the floor. That's why I was telling you it was the most important thing, because then it's possible that the smells don't attract it because it smells like everything. Well, from the materials that the scratching post is made of. So what do we do? Cat cologne? No, not at all. We don't want any more chemicals in this house now. No, what you have to do is gradually integrate the cat into the house and start seeing that the scratching post is part of its environment. How can you do that? Well, there are some cats that are attracted to catnip. For example, you can rub a little bit of catnip on the scratching post so that the cat becomes a little more interested, approaches it, flies it paws at it, and starts interacting with the scratching post. If the catnip thing doesn't bother your cat, you. Because we know that there are many cats that don't pay any attention to catnip, I recommend that you use your cat's wand. You keep putting it in front of your cat. You see that they are trying to catch it with their little paws, and you gradually bring it closer to the scratching post. Then you have to use the stick to place it on top of the scratching post and have the cat also use its claws to catch the good one, the tip of the stick where the little mouse or the feathers are. That way it is likely that the cat will also hit the scratching post with its claws and that little by little, it will impregnate it with its own smells with the pheromones that cats release with their little paws. Rejecting your cat because of the scratching post is not an option. Right, it is not an option. You can also help yourself with. Well, you probably already know this better than me, so tell me in the comments. Come on, we want to get the meme going. Feline pheromones. And now you will ask me, feline pheromones, what are those? Well, hey, it's because they don't watch any of my videos because I talk about them in every single cat video. Many people like Jose, who is ignorant, do not know that there are different types of pheromones and only think that there are These synthetic feline facial pheromones that I always tell you about. But there are some pheromones that are specific to cats using their scratching posts. These pheromones, which I call pheromones. Well, they are usually called territorial pheromones because they resemble those that cats secrete with the soles of their paws. Teach them to mark areas of their home. And how is this done? Does it look like NASA technology? Well, there is no mystery to it. Instead of being a spray, these pheromones usually come in a blue pipette. You impregnate the entire area of the scratching post so that the cat smells it and recognizes it. What's more, the box tells you exactly how to do it. Because you will have to repeat this action several times until the cat has completely gotten used to the scratching post. And that will make the cat start using it no matter what. Most of the time, you. Yes. Furthermore, once the cat starts marking on a surface that already acts as a positive reinforcement for the cat because it identifies it as a marking area, then it will return again and again to continue marking there. Because I want to remind you, it's not just what they do with their urine, it's also what they do with their claws when they scratch. They are marking. Okay. And a question that you get asked a lot and we are going to address it in a video. Where can you buy cat scratching posts? Well, you have to buy them either at a specialty store or at your vet. Ask your vet because they will probably be able to tell you.

Carlos, I have another trick to get your cat to use the scratching post. No, I'm not kidding.

You're laughing. I'm not kidding, right? If they rub their underwear or something like that, that smells a lot like the person, the human. That can work well, maybe not underwear well, but if they use things that smell like the person, it can make the cat interpret it as just another area of their home. But I think that in these cases the best thing to do is what I told you, right? Jose's strange ideas. Well, if someone uses underwear. What Underwear, Right? But what an obsession. If someone uses your clothes, I don't care which ones they smell like and rubs them, please tell me personally in the comments and say, Jose, it works. And if you think it's gross, tell me in the comments of this video. Key number three. Your cat has already gotten used to doing it somewhere else. There are many people who don't give this scratching thing the slightest importance because they have a small kitten. I don't know, two or three months old and then it's not a problem because the cat doesn't do it. Of course, the problem and the complaints come when the cat grows up and has already started to mark with its claws somewhere else in your house on some other piece of furniture. And that's when we get worried and want to change that behavior. Then it's too late. You can't change it. But if it has started to do it in a specific area, it's harder to change the cat's behavior because it will always go back to scratching the area it previously marked. So if your cat has already started scratching the most expensive sofa you have in your house or your curtains, what do we do? Do we throw ourselves off a bridge? Well, no. What do you have to do? Use the scratching post in a smart way. If you're going to buy it a scratching post because you've started to see that the cat is scratching the furniture, then what you have to do is place the scratching post next to the piece of furniture it's marking so that it's easier for the cat to transfer the scratching or marking activity from the furniture to the scratching post. I've already told you this on the channel. I know, but anyway, I'm including it here because it's very important for the cat to start using the scratching post. In this case, you have to use our friends the pheromones again, especially the cat friendly ones. To stop your cat from scratching furniture, what you need to do is use synthetic feline facial pheromones because they're different from the ones I mentioned earlier. These pheromones are similar to the ones cats use when they mark with this area here with their cheeks, and they're not the same as the ones they have on their claws. Therefore, if you use synthetic feline facial pheromones on the sofa, the cat won't scratch the sofa because when it smells or perceives these pheromones, it will know that this is not the place to scratch. And for more details on pheromones, I'll leave you a video here that's an encyclopedia of pheromones that we made on the channel that almost no one has seen. And if you ask me about it later, well, there I'll answer absolutely everything about these, about the previous ones that I mentioned and about others that exist. And what I'm going to tell you now, many people don't know. Okay, I think I've already answered this in another video, but people aren't listening to me. 4 How does your cat like to scratch more horizontally or vertically? Well, that will give you the key to knowing which scratching post it likes the most and to be successful in your purchase in your choice. The scratching post you bought for your cat doesn't like it. And what do we do? How do we know which type of scratching post our cat might like the most? Well, precisely by observing the cat, because many times we want to buy it really cute and pretty things, and our cat ends up ignoring them because they're not the most suitable for it. If your cat prefers to scratch, for example, the carpets or the sofa, which it's marking, I always use the example of the sofa, but, well, on the sofa it's marking, it scratches the cushions like this horizontally. Vertical scratching posts, which we all think of as cat scratching posts, may not be the most suitable because cats like to scratch horizontally. For this purpose, there are scratching posts that are like mats, carpets made of esparto grass, and cats can scratch there without any problem. And they will probably use that scratching post much sooner than any other vertical one. If, on the other hand, you see that your cat marks on the vertical area of the sofa, then you already know which scratching post to buy. You don't need me to draw you a diagram. The ideal scratching posts for this type of cat are the vertical ones, which are like a little roll surrounded by rope. Or you can be much more inventive and do like Cynthia did with Totoro and Kimmy, who has put a vertical scratching post in the area where they used to scratch so they don't damage the sofa. And these ones that are like a.

Giant tree, those are vertical, they can be very interesting because they also let them go up and down and exercise. If you have space, they make a good cat gym and Totoro and Kimi are using it now and having a great time. Let me know in the comments which of these points you are failing at and that is why your cat is not using the scratching post. And when you put the change I mentioned into practice, tell me if it works because you will see that it does. And as always, to create a bigger community and contribute much more to the video. Also, leave me in the comments what trick or what thing you are using with your cat so that he uses the scratching post. And that's it for today's video. If you liked it, give it a like and share it with everyone. Remember to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. And also remember that here on YouTube we have a secondary channel called Questions and Answers. From a veterinarian, go to subscribe. And on both you have to click the bell, because if you don't, YouTube won't notify you when we upload a new video and you will miss them. And then the questions and complaints will come. Anyway, the usual how? Oh, look, Production told me that from now on you can start sending us photos of your animal companions at this email address that appears below. If you want us to introduce them at the end of the videos. And I want to tell Production and everyone else one thing. I have nothing to do with that email account, so. Well, Jose is the only one who will manage it. I'm not going to enter or look at it.

Come on, you'll introduce them at the end and that's it. Yes, yes, I'll introduce them at the end, like I have been doing up until now. And today we meet this cute little thing called Linda. Well, although the story has a bit of a plot twist, because in the end they realized that she wasn't Linda, but that she was cute. And here we have Manolo, the cat that lives with Step's mother. Well, now we have to call him Mr. Manolo. He's over 8 years old. And to say goodbye, we have Mamba, who is the mastiff, and Pisto, who is the feline, in front of Beatriz, who is the human companion of both, tells us that they get along great. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families channel. And I'll see you in the next video. Rodrigo could call right now. And I live in Boadilla del Monte. The shirt isn't wrinkled, but the way you sit makes some wrinkles. Because it may be that once you change one thing, you have to keep changing other things about your cat. Okay? Hey, you've explained to him like crap that they go in order. Of course. Well, that's it. I'll say it now. I'll say it now. Don't get ahead of yourself. No, the Runway starts on our stairs. That's it. That's all. That's it. If it doesn't suit you, then don't put it in. Okay, I'll continue now. You can also send us photos of the cats through Instagram, direct messages. You know that's going to be a pain in the ass because then we won't be able to find the questions. Okay, I think it's better if we steal them from there. From now on, you can send us photos of your cats and dogs at this email address.

I don't plan on managing that email address. I'M telling you this because I can smell the toast that you're reporting.

Of course she told me all that, man.

I don't do that, okay? Come on. She says she's three months old, and while playing with her, I realized she has balls.