How to train a cat to scratch and crawl? Cat training should start from an early age! It is natural for cats to sharpen their claws. In order to prevent cats from scratching furniture, parents can use cat climbing frames to train cats to scratch and crawl correctly. The method is very simple, let’s learn about it together.

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It is a cat’s habit to sharpen its claws, so it is impossible to make it stop sharpening its claws. For a kitten, its claws are its most powerful weapons, so the aging cuticle must be worn away from time to time to make it extremely sharp. In addition, claw grinding is also to show one's strength and increase the scent. Cats have scent glands inside their front feet, so they grind their claws to leave behind their scent.

In the training of cats, claw sharpening is the most difficult thing. Therefore, it should be done before the kitten has scratching behavior on the furniture.

Cats have the habit of scratching immediately after waking up, and like to scratch on objects around the cat’s nest to move and relax their forelimbs and paws. Therefore, when training its scratching behavior, boards or wooden posts should be placed as close to the cat's nest as possible. As the cat grows older, the size of the wooden posts or boards should be appropriately increased, and then the wooden posts or boards can be fixed to the wall near the cat's nest.

First of all, prepare special claw grinding tools. Although there are many types sold in the market, it is also good to make your own. First place a thick wooden post about 70 cm long and 20 cm in diameter or a wooden board about 37 cm long and 20 cm wide near the cat's nest. It can be placed horizontally at first to make it easier for the kitten to climb up and down on it, allowing the cat to find the parts it is willing to scratch.

If the kitten does not scratch, the owner can gently stroke the cat's head with his hands and press down on the cat's head to force it to scratch the wooden post or board, but the action must be gentle. After a wooden post or board is scratched by a cat, the glandular secretions on its feet will be smeared on the wooden post or board. Attracted by the smell of its own secretions, it will scratch at the wooden post or board.