Cat destroying carpet.

[Pom]

He started pulling out pieces of carpet to play with at first and now he is tearing and fraying our 2 year carpets. It is all but destroyed at this point.  We have put down wooden thresholds.  We keep the doors to rooms with carpet closed. We have cat trees and a climbing condo, toys out the ass.  We play with him.  WTF.   Any suggestions?  Sprinkle with pepper?  Anything else? 

[livinitup]

Use double-sided tape on the sections the cat likes to scratch - cats hate sticky surfaces. Add flat scratching surfaces to your collections - put them over the areas the cat choses to scratch. The flat corrugated cardboard boxes work well. You may have lots of scratchers, but cats like to scratch in multiple ways - stretching up (like on the side of a tree) or flat (like on the ground/carpet). Using "safe" scratching boxes that mimic the type of scratching your cat enjoys, really helps train them. So, do a combo of deterring (sticky tape, loud noises) and pro-placement (add cat nip to the box scratcher, it usually comes with it). You can buy it in pet stores.

[Pom]

Aug 4, 2015 9:20:13 GMT -5 livinitup said:

Use double-sided tape on the sections the cat likes to scratch - cats hate sticky surfaces. Add flat scratching surfaces to your collections - put them over the areas the cat choses to scratch. The flat corrugated cardboard boxes work well. You may have lots of scratchers, but cats like to scratch in multiple ways - stretching up (like on the side of a tree) or flat (like on the ground/carpet). Using "safe" scratching boxes that mimic the type of scratching your cat enjoys, really helps train them. So, do a combo of deterring (sticky tape, loud noises) and pro-placement (add cat nip to the box scratcher, it usually comes with it). You can buy it in pet stores.

Thank you.  I am adding extra double sided tape to my cart now! I also bought more of those flat cat box scratchers.  Does citrus spray deter cats from carpets?  Do they avoid the smell?  I saw that suggested too.

[rubytue]

My tips are similar to @livingitup's, with one addition. If he is tearing at the threshold of closed doors, put aluminum foil under the door.

Once we broke the door scratching (with foil) we are down to one spot - the vertical riser on the first stair. She loves to sleep at the base of that stair and tear the carpet up. We've kind just given her that spot.

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[mbcdefg]

One of mine has also started doing this, so I'll be following this thread. 

But I admit that it's not a huge concern, because she's only doing it to the dining room carpet and we've been wanting to get rid of that carpet anyway. Our house was a flip and the carpet was cheap and hastily installed by the previous owner, so it didn't look that nice in the first place. Plus our other cat has puked all over it :/

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I have no idea. I've tried all of these things. Hank actually likes tape and will sit and lick the sticky off of it. I'm looking for some magical solutions.