I know most of the ways to get a cat to appropriately scratch...give them horizontal and vertical surfaces, various materials, make it appealing with nip, show them using your hands how to scratch on it, show them using their own paws, praise praise praise when they do it right, deterrants for surfaces...
This has worked, mostly, with Mojo (she still loves the chair, even though there's a scratcher right next to it, but I think that's as much to get our attention as anything...).
Ginger is being stubborn.
She likes scratching on the carpet. Doesn't matter where, doesn't matter which room, or any particular spot. She knows where she's supposed to scratch horizontally, because she will now go scratch on the carpet right next to the scratchers.
When I show her and try to encourage her to use the scratcher, she looks at me like I'm from Mars. I can't very well cover the whole upstairs (and stairs) in scratch deterrent (like Sticky Paws), and since it isn't anywhere in particular that she likes to scratch, I'm running out of ideas.
Anything else that has worked for you to get her to use the appropriate scratchers? Vertically, she's fine - we have a little condo that she uses for that. It's horizontally that she's being very stubborn...
This has worked, mostly, with Mojo (she still loves the chair, even though there's a scratcher right next to it, but I think that's as much to get our attention as anything...).
Ginger is being stubborn.
Anything else that has worked for you to get her to use the appropriate scratchers? Vertically, she's fine - we have a little condo that she uses for that. It's horizontally that she's being very stubborn...