Can pets and leather furniture coexist?

I guess the safest way would be to keep pets out of rooms that contain the leather furniture. If you have a dog, you may be more successful in training him/her to stay off the furniture. However, if you have a cat, you will find that they have a mind of their own and no matter how you try to train your cat, he/she will likely not listen well.LOL.

This, at least is my experience, and yes, I have had both, dogs and cats, who like yours, have not had very friendly encounters with my leather furniture. I have had my ivory colored leather couches for almost 9 years now, and they were fine for the first 5 years, until my little son decided he wanted a kitten. We had adopted a cat from my husband’s coworker a few months prior, but her previous owner had gotten her declawed so she posed no danger.

She just needed a good home since she could never again live in the outdoors. So when we got the kitten, we decided against declawing her and she went absolutely wild on our furniture. I remember one day when we could not find her anywhere in the house.

A little while later we heard a shrill Meow coming from above our heads and as we looked up we found “Baby Jaguar� (as my toddler, a then-huge Go Diego Go fan had named her) swinging back and forth on our brand new drapes, unable to climb back down. LOL.

Of course, at the time I was less then pleased, but my horror did not set in until I found the huge claw-marks extending from the top of my couch to the bottom (indicating another of my cat’s sliding-down attempts). So yes, there is likely no successful co-existence between cats/dogs and leather furniture and the best thing to do is to simply keep them separated from each other (or the cat from the couch). Good luck.

I guess the safest way would be to keep pets out of rooms that contain the leather furniture. If you have a dog, you may be more successful in training him/her to stay off the furniture. However, if you have a cat, you will find that they have a mind of their own and no matter how you try to train your cat, he/she will likely not listen well.LOL.

This, at least is my experience, and yes, I have had both, dogs and cats, who like yours, have not had very friendly encounters with my leather furniture. I have had my ivory colored leather couches for almost 9 years now, and they were fine for the first 5 years, until my little son decided he wanted a kitten. We had adopted a cat from my husband’s coworker a few months prior, but her previous owner had gotten her declawed so she posed no danger.

She just needed a good home since she could never again live in the outdoors. So when we got the kitten, we decided against declawing her and she went absolutely wild on our furniture. I remember one day when we could not find her anywhere in the house.

A little while later we heard a shrill Meow coming from above our heads and as we looked up we found “Baby Jaguar” (as my toddler, a then-huge Go Diego Go fan had named her) swinging back and forth on our brand new drapes, unable to climb back down. LOL. Of course, at the time I was less then pleased, but my horror did not set in until I found the huge claw-marks extending from the top of my couch to the bottom (indicating another of my cat’s sliding-down attempts).

So yes, there is likely no successful co-existence between cats/dogs and leather furniture and the best thing to do is to simply keep them separated from each other (or the cat from the couch). Good luck.

Yes if they're birds and gerbils and etc.. Or if you close off the room said furniture is in.

Not really. Unless of course you get them de-clawed, which I feel is inhumane IMHO. Hope that helps.

I guess the safest way would be to keep pets out of rooms that contain the leather furniture. If you have a dog, you may be more successful in training him/her to stay off the furniture. However, if you have a cat, you will find that they have a mind of their own and no matter how you try to train your cat, he/she will likely not listen well.

LOL. This, at least is my experience, and yes, I have had both, dogs and cats, who like yours, have not had very friendly encounters with my leather furniture. I have had my ivory colored leather couches for almost 9 years now, and they were fine for the first 5 years, until my little son decided he wanted a kitten.

We had adopted a cat from my husband’s coworker a few months prior, but her previous owner had gotten her declawed so she posed no danger. She just needed a good home since she could never again live in the outdoors. So when we got the kitten, we decided against declawing her and she went absolutely wild on our furniture.

I remember one day when we could not find her anywhere in the house. A little while later we heard a shrill Meow coming from above our heads and as we looked up we found “Baby Jaguar” (as my toddler, a then-huge Go Diego Go fan had named her) swinging back and forth on our brand new drapes, unable to climb back down. LOL.

Of course, at the time I was less then pleased, but my horror did not set in until I found the huge claw-marks extending from the top of my couch to the bottom (indicating another of my cat’s sliding-down attempts). So yes, there is likely no successful co-existence between cats/dogs and leather furniture and the best thing to do is to simply keep them separated from each other (or the cat from the couch). Good luck.

I have visited homes where most of the time they keep the leather furniture covered with quilts or fabric furniture covers so that the pets and children will not ruin it. Only for special occasions do they remove the covers. Then again, if you have to have covers on it all the time, why have leather furniture, eh?

I guess if you already have the leather furniture and are considering adding a house member who comes with pets, then this could be your solution.

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