I have blogged about our dog Dodger a number of times, but not much about our cat. Our cat is named Soda, and frankly he is not a very friendly cat.
He is pretty mean tempered and never seems to have forgiven us for getting Dodger. The dog is scared of him, and there is no doubt which pet is the boss in the house. We were away for a few days ago last week, and while we kenneled the dog we left the cat at home and arranged to have someone feed him. Soda took the opportunity to show us how displeased he was at being left alone – by using our living room recliner as a scratching post.
He didn’t just scratch it a little, he ripped the fabric apart and got all the way down to bare wood. He also threw up all over the living room carpet, but I suppose that wasn’t deliberate. So we need to look for new seating. Our room is not big enough for home theater seating, so we are considering another recliner. Coaster recliners are very reasonably priced, I was surprised to find out that you can buy some very nice looking ones for under $300. That is certainly an attractive, low price. But I really like the look of a microfiber recliner chair, and it would match nicely with out couch. But whatever we do we will be keeping the old recliner, at least as long as we have the cat. We don’t want him to pick a new piece of furniture to scratch up after all.