Most valuable thing destroyed by cats?

Originally Posted by GailC

I have a $1600 scratching post that used to be a tapestry covered wing chair and ottoman. I'm going to have it re-upholstered in a more durable fabric!!

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Bless your heart Might I suggest Soft Claws

At this point its not going to make any difference!! Another cat started the damage and Bakker finished it off!! The ottoman is worse than the chair as I've positioned the chair to disguise part of the damage!!

Only a few months after we got Wonton, he gnawed on my (then only a few months old itself) Vaio laptop. The screen, specifically. He didnt puncture it, but it's got three scratches on the left hand side. What posessed him to try to eat the monitor, I have no idea.

More recently, we bought a beautiful leather office chair for use as a chair for our computer desk. it was originally $600, marked down to $200...Wonton was running around one night due to the nightly crazies, and before I could yell no or grab him, he ran up the back of the chair and clawed onto the front part, lost grip with his hind feet, so all of his 16 lbs were hanging by the claws of his front feet. there are four puncture holes in the leather now. I"m hoping to get it repaired in a few months - the leather was perfect before that I may drape it with some kind of chair cover or something - although that kind of moots the point of having a nice leather chair :/

I'm not mad at him - he was just being a cat - but I am less than pleased at the situation in general, cos the chair was pretty new, and now it's got claw marks in it

Bella and Sophia were chasing each other and knocked over a lamp and broke it but it was just funny I was not upset!

Reilly destroyed the laminate flooring in my hallway by tearing it up and chewed through the USB cable for my computer

the over skirt to my rennisance costume was completly shredded..it was full velvet and about 5lbs worth..little rats

I had 2 female cats get into a pissing war with each other. Needless to say, by the time I got it under control, not only the carpet was ruined, but the 1884 original pine wood floors under them. Total cost to repair/replace? About $10,000. Yes, you read that right.

Our couple of thousand dollar dining table. This is it in all it's glory



The cats have since run all over the leather chairs which are al scratched and now covered in ugly chair covers. They aren't allowed on the table, but they occasionally jump up there, and when they see us, they go racing off - and dig their claws in for extra traction. So the table is all scratched now as well and we have no choice but to constantly keep a table cloth on it.

They're cats, they have claws, but it's still such a shame to have our first major purchase as a married couple scratched up and not actually be able to show it

Cats are just so bad

Mine used my brand new leather sectional sofa for a scratching post. They have also used different pieces of furniture as a spring board to jump somewhere else, leaving their back claws marks. Tino LOVES to use my throw rugs as scratching posts. God I love my baby's, as I type this Laura and Tino are shredding paper towels on the floor from where I was cleaning the TV screen.

My mom bought a baby grand piano. It was fine until we got Scooter, who thought it was fun to jump on and slide off, scratching it all up. Now it's covered in doilies.

Jaden's scratched up our sofa, but not much damage was done before I got her the soft claws. Plus it was a goodwill find, so it wasn't a huge loss or anything.

My sister's cat decided he liked wood the best to scratch on. Her dining set (solid maple that my Mom gave her) is now scratched into unsightliness and banished to the basement. She replaced it was a metal and glass set.

My husband broke my hand-punched lampshade with a rolled up magazine trying to kill a fly. I yelled, "No! It's paper!" but it was too late.

Trout puts random holes in my clothing..she loves to hang out in the closet when its open

I often tell Zissou "We just can't have nice things, can we?" She's about as graceful as her mama, that is, not at all. She chews on any furniture. She decided that my miniature Christmas tree was certainly not to have any ornaments, that my desk chair would be much prettier if she chewed the armrests a while, that the carpet would be much better if some of it were ripped up, and that the blinds would work better if she gnawed, pawed, and fought a cat-door-sized hole in them.

Originally Posted by SwampWitch

The wallpaper in our living room when we lived in Cambridge... what was Oberon thinking?

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Me too - wallpaper. The cat condo I have goes to the ceiling and Pebbles is the only one allowed on the top seat (her law). So now she has taken up peeling the wallpaper from the walls in the dining room from her throne. I guess it's ok though cause I liked the wallpaper, but my mother and grandmother never have and have told me it needs to come down. So I guess it's coming down.

Wilbur chewed through two sets of computer speaker wires (which required me to replace the entire speaker set), plus he chewed through the wires to two cordless telephones.

Nothing really valuable, but several sentimental Christmas ornaments turned to dust this past Christmas--one I had for 20 years. They also kept stealing the small, stuffed elephant ornament, which was given to me in 1983 by my Laotian students, to whom I taught English (the elephant is a symbol on the flag of Laos). Luckily, Elly is still intact!

They managed to break two lovely red glass hurricane candle holders I loved (it was a set of three), too. (Christmas was ugly this year...)

My Little Miss does like to steal jewelry, somewhat valuable stuff, but, luckily nothing has been broken...yet...:-)

Every once in awhile, we will be awakened by the sound of glass crashing downstairs!

MargeCat

alex's warhammer. little plastic models that cost heaps. Button's likes to pretend he's a giant and swat them around, bite them and crush them.

Wow! It is/was a beautiful dining set, and I love the tile on the floor.

We can't have any leather/vinyl upholstery aound our guys; nor wicker; they've destroyed numerous items made of this stuff. (And a fabric-covered armchair that I only had, brand new, for about 6 months.)

MargeCat

Originally Posted by CommonOddity042

Aye. I have no idea where they've dragged it off to. :/

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Check under the couch... Seems to be where everything else ends up.


Mine haven't destroyed anything of too much value... Other then a few phone cords.