People who raise cats often find that the cats at home like to scratch the sofa, often scratching the sofa, which gives people a lot of headaches.

If cats at home often destroy the sofa, some owners may not know about it or have not prepared scratching posts for them. In fact, most cat owners will know about this kind of thing.

Why do cats like to scratch the sofa? The editor thinks there are several reasons:

1. Prevent nails from bending and puncturing the pads. This is a cat’s instinct and essential task for survival.

Cats' claws grow very quickly. Compared with cats in the wild, domestic cats' claws grow faster because cats in the wild can often climb to sharpen their claws.

If a cat does not sharpen its claws regularly, the nails will grow rapidly and bend into the flesh, puncturing the flesh pads on the soles of the feet and hindering the cat's walking. To prevent this, cats must sharpen their claws, which are produced by them. One of the essential skills.

　2. Cat’s weapons, essential skills for survival

Cats in nature need to hunt prey by themselves. Their nails will become dull after long-term use. In order to better catch prey, they will peel off the old nails from time to time and let new, sharp nails replace the dull ones. Nails, this is their survival skill.

3. Smell markings, survival skills

Many animals have their own unique survival skills. For example, dogs urinate everywhere to mark their territory. The same goes for cats. They have their own sweat glands on the soles of their feet. When they grind their nails, their own scent will be left in this place to declare that this place is their territory.

What should we do when the cat likes to scratch the sofa?

The answer is simple: buy them some scratching posts or DIY them yourself.

If we don’t want cats to damage the sofa at home too much, we can only prepare some toys for them to grind their nails, such as cat scratching posts. These toys are not very expensive.

Of course, we can also DIY some cat scratching boards by ourselves. You can use wood or fabric.