Use patches on your furniture. If you don’t have the patience to snip away strands or work on your furniture with a tool, you can simply cover up the cat damage with a patch of some sort.

Your cat’s claws will slide right off these mountable plastic shields when they scratch the sofa, and the subtle transparent design won’t mask your couch. Each 17-by-12-inch shield can be ...

I’ve owned cats my entire adult life, and my furniture bears the proof: Every cat I’ve ever owned has left shredded couch corners, pulled loops on my headboard and ruined door mats in their wake.

These escapes could help your cat calm down, and reduce its desire to scratch. Demirbas said the research team saw a decrease in scratching when her team "designed an environment for our cats ...

Step one: Invest in a good scratching post. | Jamie Grill/Tetra images/Getty Images. You may not be able to stop your cat from scratching, but you can try to prevent them from shredding your couch ...