Love My Cat, But...

I love my cat, Trixie, but she can be quite destructive.  In fact, she has ruined two sofas and two chairs in just over two years. We have provided scratching posts and a cardboard scratcher and  even a carpet scratcher.  I have had the vet put on claw covers (that just fell off) and I clip her claws as often as she will allow. 

So clearly I won't buy another sofa soon but I came up with this crazy idea on how to camouflage the worst of the destruction.  I'm calling this a decorative alternative. 

So here is the before:

Pretty awful, yes?

So Trixie supervised the work in progress:

And the finished product!

Not too bad, right?  She can scratch this, that is if my pup, D.J. doesn't stop her.  Ever since he figured out that she's not allowed to scratch the furniture, he runs up to her when she starts and chases her away.  Smart puppy, no?  I didn't even teach him to do that.  I can always fix this again if Trixie tears it up again.

While I had the glue gun out I also had another rope-like project to repair.  It is a favorite file box that released a lot of its glue holding the rope on.  Here are the before and after photos of the project.  

           

I enjoyed an odd sense of accomplishment by completing these two projects.

Hope you enjoyed these projects and I made you smile!