A lot of cats just meow when you're closed off in a room they can't get to.... I WISH that was the case here. Socks has been tearing up the carpet in front of the bathroom door and our bedroom door. I am at my wits end with this cat... I have no idea how to make him STOP! He is destroying property that isn't ours! We rent this apartment!!
We keep the bedroom door closed most of the day, but he only tears at the carpet if someone is in there. When I went to bed last night, he started doing it even though my boyfriend was still out in the living room. And he doesn't want to just come into the room with us, either. If he does get to come in (I never let him if he's tearing the carpet, though) he will jump up on the desk, knock over or eat my plants, pull things off of the table, go behind the computer and either play with the wires or pull them out, go behind the TV and to the same thing, and sometimes he tries to get into my snake's cage. These are the reasons WHY we keep the door closed all day.
It started with the bathroom, though. Whenever someone was in there he would meow and scratch at the door. Then he started tearing at the carpet. He doesn't just paw at it, he tries to dig through it. This is the result
Look, he tore it out completely! There's the wooden sub-floor!!
He's started this process in front of our bedroom door as well. It's not as bad, but I still need to find a way to make him stop before it gets worse. This is what it looks like, now:
see the strings?
Here's the other spot in front of the door that he claws more frequently... that brown spot is the sub-floor again
and some of the fibers he pulled out
I've tried making loud sudden noises to scare him off, but he comes back almost immediately. I've tried making angry cat noises to intimidate him but that doesn't work either. He knows that he's not supposed to do it. When I open the door he runs away.... that's also why I haven't been able to do anything physical like scruffing. That probably wouldn't work either, though. It hasn't when I've tried it to make him stop other behaviors.
Can someone please, PLEASE, help me make him STOP??
We keep the bedroom door closed most of the day, but he only tears at the carpet if someone is in there. When I went to bed last night, he started doing it even though my boyfriend was still out in the living room. And he doesn't want to just come into the room with us, either. If he does get to come in (I never let him if he's tearing the carpet, though) he will jump up on the desk, knock over or eat my plants, pull things off of the table, go behind the computer and either play with the wires or pull them out, go behind the TV and to the same thing, and sometimes he tries to get into my snake's cage. These are the reasons WHY we keep the door closed all day.
It started with the bathroom, though. Whenever someone was in there he would meow and scratch at the door. Then he started tearing at the carpet. He doesn't just paw at it, he tries to dig through it. This is the result
Look, he tore it out completely! There's the wooden sub-floor!!
He's started this process in front of our bedroom door as well. It's not as bad, but I still need to find a way to make him stop before it gets worse. This is what it looks like, now:
see the strings?
Here's the other spot in front of the door that he claws more frequently... that brown spot is the sub-floor again
and some of the fibers he pulled out
I've tried making loud sudden noises to scare him off, but he comes back almost immediately. I've tried making angry cat noises to intimidate him but that doesn't work either. He knows that he's not supposed to do it. When I open the door he runs away.... that's also why I haven't been able to do anything physical like scruffing. That probably wouldn't work either, though. It hasn't when I've tried it to make him stop other behaviors.
Can someone please, PLEASE, help me make him STOP??