Learn more about being able to raise cats scientifically!

Whether you want to use a scratching board for your cat or not, it will always have one. If you don't prepare it individually, then, it will choose for itself: for example, the sofa, bed, curtains, doors, chairs, cabinets, and even walls in your house! There are also many cat slaves who will be very conscious and proactive in providing their cat masters with a variety of cat scratching boards and climbing frames to satisfy their masters' needs. Of course, there is a learning curve, not just throw a cat scratching board can meet the needs of every cat, otherwise, is the old saying "companion as companion tiger" cat slaves think it is a lie? Today to answer some common doubts about the cat scratching board! Cat owners can learn more about the science of owning a cat from a good understanding!

Family pet cat scratching post nobleza in the end it is best to put it flat? Or is it better to put it vertically?

Generally speaking as long as it is safe and stable non-toxic and harmless, there are no small fragments off the object, can basically meet the needs of the safety of cats, cat scratching board in fact in the family's role, as an outdoor environment in the tree, or strictly speaking, the bark of the tree. To meet the cat's need for some behavioural environment in the course of its life. Due to the habits of cats, climbing heights, especially climbing trees is the expression of nature that domestic cats and many felines must satisfy, that is to say, like most people nowadays, the act of "climbing trees" for cats is the same as playing with mobile phones, playing, very happy. If you don't, you won't die, but you'll be scratching your ears and fidgeting. Moreover, playing with a mobile phone is an acquired behaviour, whereas "climbing up" and "hanging from a tree trunk" are innate needs for cats that are higher than acquired behaviours.
Since scratching boards are used in indoor enrichment as a substitute for outdoor trees, it is possible that if we only give cats flat cat scratching post nobleza, it may not be sufficient to satisfy the cat's needs. In fact, if the home is not prepared with a suitable scratching board, left to the cat's own choice of scratching and climbing targets, the cat will not choose almost any horizontal objects, but go to the arm of the sofa, screens, doors, cabinets and the side of the bed these completely vertical with the ground area. Who often sees cats lying on the floor scratching around? When they are confronted with some low targets, sometimes we can see them leaping at them in a very cute and silly way. However, when the cat is forced to choose the purely horizontal scratching board we provide, we can easily see the cat pouting and crawling on the scratching board, and if we turn the viewpoint by 90° and put our face on the floor of the scratching board, we can see that the cat seems to be "hanging from a tree trunk", but it always seems to be in a strange position.
At this time, if the relationship with the cat is in place or there are other ways to stroke or observe each muscle of the cat's limbs, we can easily find that: at this time, the combination of tension and relaxation of the cat's various muscle groups and the combination of tension and relaxation required for it to maintain that posture on the ground is not the optimal combination, but more like the muscles required when the cat is hanging on the surface of the tree. Tension. Therefore, when we prepare scratching boards for cats at home, in addition to climbing frames and scratching posts, while giving them horizontal scratching boards, we should give more cat scratching board nobleza choices with angles and verticals to the ground, and try to satisfy the cat's needs for scratching and climbing heights, which, after all, are also the natural expression of the cat's innate need to scratch and climb.

Does olfactory stimulation attract cats to use cat scratching boards?

Some scientists have experimented with catnip, moutain and pheromones to see if they can attract cats to use a scratching board. The experiment showed that hanging catnip/woody daylily increased scratching and contact (both in terms of duration and frequency) with the cat scratching post. In contrast, Feliway only increased the daily frequency of contact between the cat and the scratching post. Therefore, catnip and mucuna pruriens are indeed effective in increasing cats' interest in cat scratching posts. As for the previous news that the use of pheromones can attract cats to scratch. This time, the study proved that pheromones only increase the frequency of interaction between the cat and the scratching pad, not the actual scratching behaviour itself. Commercial pheromone products include both chemical pheromones and some organic extracts of catnip, though, making it difficult to distinguish which ingredients in a pheromone product actually do the trick.

How can I be sure that the cat scratching board is broken? It needs to be replaced!

Many owners may have just started owning a cat and are not too sure about how a cat scratching board is broken. They always think that the cat scratch out a large piece of confetti and think that the cat scratching board is useless. In fact, the real situation is not so. Cat scratching board surface of the confetti, we just need to take the hand to clean up the confetti swept away. But the cat scratching board underneath is still fine. As long as the cat scratching board is not completely soft to the touch, then it can continue to be used. There is no need to change it too often! If this cat doesn't like the cat scratching board too much, then you can wait until it's worn out before replacing it, which will save you some money and not be too wasteful.