New Furniture Coming Today!!! Hope the dog and cat like it :D

[miaclear]

Fortunatly when they called to say they would be delivering it they said it was the wrong color but they'd let us keep this stuff till the right stuff comes in!

So that gives us what I'd like to call "training furniture"! The dog will no longer be allowed on the furniture and the cat, well let's hope she doesn't want to claw it up (she's usually very good). Or worse yet decide it doesn't need to be there and pee on it.

Anyone have any stories/advice from getting new furniture and training your pets to behave on it :rolleyes:

[charliezangel]

we just got our new furniture about 2 weeks ago. We have 3 cats, one of them is a baby ans she is very rambunctous (sp??). The night we got it, they hid in the bedroom all night because the mover guys were in and out for a couple hours, then our neighboors cam over to see it and they continued to hid in the room. When they finally came out, they were sniffing at it for a good 30 minutes before any of them would get on it. The baby tried to claw once, and DH yelled at her, and then took her to the scratching post and made her scratch that. She got the idea. Noelle isn't interested, she just likes to sleep on the back pillows and roll around in the chenille thorw we have on the couch. Howie has been the biggest problem. He has found one corner that he feels the need to "strech" on. So he's not really clawing, but he'll strch his frot paws up it and than pul his claws out and walk his wany down the corner. DH has cought him twice and popped him on the head for it, but he doesn't get it. So now, when i see him go close, i throw like a sock or something at him, and he backs down. I think he is getting used to it becasue he hasn't been to that corner in 3 days. My girlfriend said to pu 2 sided tape on the corners because the cats don't like the feeling on their paws. or you can keep a water bottle by the couch and lighty spray them in the face when they go near it. Most pet supply stores carry this stuff that you can spray on the furniture, it doesn't hurt the fabric, but the cats don't like whatever is in it. So they stay away.