How To Protect Rugs From Cats

Don t forget the area rug pads.

How to protect rugs from cats.

All area rugs should have a carpet cushion. Scratching is an important part of a cat s health and wellbeing. Protecting your carpet from cat pee can be so hard. Even if they already have a pad an extra will help to keep the rug from sliding around and keep any accidents from making its way to the wood or tile below.

Patterned rugs are ideal since they forgive the odd smudge of dirt or drift of pet fur. Always use a rug pad beneath your rugs to protect the floor. Also area rugs help prevent dogs from sliding across the floors. Area rugs are a good way to keep your carpet clean especially if you have pets that like to come and go and may track in mud and dirt.

Just don t forget to clean them regularly as you would carpet. Over the years my husband and i completely adapted our home based on romeo s pee problems. In our old house we had all hardwood floors and area rugs. If you have any other great tips for pet proof rugs feel free to share.

Try putting double sided sticky tape around the edges of the rug where your cat is urinating since cats don t like that sensation either. They are also great for noise reduction. While this often damages the item being scratched it provides a benefit to the cat. One by one romeo ruined them until we stopped putting any rugs on the floors at all.

They come in handy for areas where you may have a lot of chairs or traffic. Why cats scratch carpet upholstery and other surfaces. And we just got used to our rugless life.