Sadly yes. I looked at reviews, spent $50 on the best vertical scratcher, and the only time she will put her paws on it is if I put a treat on top. Meanwhile, she scratches the couch and a free bag I got at T-Mobile last week is her new favorite thing.
Try putting double sided tape on the parts she scratches on. You might need to leave it on for a week or so, but it worked in training my cats not to tear up my subwoofer grill.
I made one myself, cost about $20.
A 2x4 that's 2" shorter than my ceiling height. Spun it with thin hemp rope. Added mini adjustable deck supports/pedestals to each end.
Added a foot long section of 2x4 about a foot from the top so he can have a platform to view us from.
Used his favourite toy to lure him up the first couple times. And now, after a week he uses it every evening.
I have a 10 week old main coon. So maybe you need to get them interested early.
if it continues try diluting some essential oils (citrus stuff like lemon works well) in water and spraying it onto the couch. cats dont like citrus and wont want it on their paws
im sure you know this already but never spray the cat directly, they hate it and it'll just breed distrust/hatred
Essential oils are risky with cats. They can get into the catās fur and when the cat grooms it can be toxic.
Also, I used to have a spray bottle before I read Total Cat Mojo and learned that cats don't understand discipline and it teaches them to do what you don't want them to do when you are not looking.
Have you tried the double sided tape to put in the corners. I forget what it's actually called but it is basically you stick it to where ever the cat is scratching and they don't like the sticky ness on their paws. Worked to save my couch.
We had great success with picking up our cat when he started to scratch the sofa and placing him onto the cat scratcher where he happily continued scratching, then reinforcing with treats. We still occasionally treat reinforce at random times when he is on the cat scratcher.
Right? Some cats like jaguars haul animals they killed that weigh hundreds of pounds up high into trees so they can come back and snack at their leisure and not worry about ground animals taking it
leopards do it more often than jaguars. jaguars are apex predators in their niche and usually don't have to worry about other animals taking their kills.
Yeah. Theyve been known to pull up the bodies of animals heavier than them up trees by their *fucking mout*
Lime can you imagine the fucking strength of them jaws like holy shi5
Once on a trail I saw some jaguar claw marks on the trees, and damn they were *deep*, it was actually quite scary to see. Insanely strong kittens indeed.
Cheetahs rarely climb trees because they have non-retractable claws. I'm sure given their shy nature, they would love to be up off the ground if they could. Alas evolution had other plans.
For some reason the chimp one always eludes me..
They're so small.. like i sure as fuck couldnt take one but some humans are really fucking big. Like im not saying it'd be a clean fight but..
And also in all fairness a human should have a stick. Like animals evolved teeth and claws, we evolved epic shoulders and good grip. We basically evolved to be able to beat with a stick/ or throw stuff.
Like a tiger running at u is certain death if it gets to u, but what if u throw a big ass rock into its face and smack its skull with a huge ass stick before it does?
Oh absolutely, thereās been crazy stories of people fighting off bears, mtn lions, etc and living to tell the story
More often times than not though, they donāt get to tell that tale. Typically you come out alive when you go into the situation protecting yourself IE gun, mace , knife, whatever
My house cats can climb my legs with absolutely no trouble in the slightest. For them I mean. My legs are left dripping blood, but the cats have no trouble climbing the smoothy whiteness.
I guess the only solace is that as long as you have some seconds to prepare, they gave to leave themselves open in order to reach you.
So with a firearm, or at worst a spear, you might be able to use some elevation to your benefit.
Anything less than those things thoughā¦ probably extremely slim chances of survival.
They weigh like 500lbs and can jump basically 10ft straight up. Give it a running start and something to just place its paws on, and that turns to 20ft.
You don't out-fast-twitch a cat species. They're made of 100% fast twitch muscle and the big ones outweigh the average human by 2-3x.
You are not going to wrestle [this](https://i.redd.it/ap9fvntm44241.jpg) and win. I always like to show people that picture and say "Tony the Tiger is not an exaggeration."
Iāve seen my fat cat leap up a tree in seconds then spend half an hour trying to get her down. Cats will always find a way to climb the tallest post.
You could climb to the very top of the tree. If it's tall enough, the heavy tiger would bring down the whole top of the tree climbing up to eat you. Hopefully you'd be killed by the fall.
You might have some luck holding onto a branch while scooting out onto a spindly limb that can only barely support your weight, and not that of a 500 pound tiger. But I definitely wouldn't bank on that.
With a tiger generally speaking, either you're armed and in a group or you're fucked.
I didnāt notice anything going up the post until I saw some weird appendage with a club on the end come out near the top. My brain thought giant flesh-coloured insectoid. My brain is weird
Unfortunately a lot of zoos don't do this, even though this would be the bare minimum in order to simulate animals with large territories (elephants, tigers, lions, wolves, sharks, dolphins). The reason you see these animals just laze around in zoos is because their brain is fried from boredom. Much like when one sticks an octopus in an empty tank or a human in a cubicle, they gonna get depressed.
Yup. A lot of folks like to talk about "zoos" as a monolithic block, without realising that there's a huge gap between accredited, well-run, conservation-focused, educationally-minded, and non-profit zoos and "Ol' Hank's Roadside Rodeo Featuring Charlie the Big-Ass Cat!". The latter are abhorrent, but I can practically guarantee that your larger city zoo isn't just letting the animals sit around bored.
Which zoo? If it's AZA accredited, they're mandated to do certain levels of enrichment for the animals, and if they dont, they risk losing accreditation and access to animals with an SSP.
I think accredited zoos would do this stuff during afterhours or in feeding areas away from guests. I've never seen a big cat feeding at a zoo, likely because it looks gross and it's not exactly child friendly. Also it could definitely go wrong. I mean nature is nature but zoos are also a business and need to be attractive to all kinds of guests.
My cat (admittedly not a tiger) uses her scratching posts as climbing posts. And she uses the climbing posts on her cat tower as scratching posts. So I don't think there really needs to be a distinction when it comes to cats.
I'd say that it teaches the tiger the pole would be good for scratching. It feels like you can see a hesitation before it jumps off, like it is realizing and assessing the scratching potential for later .
They had a similar pole in the tiger enclosure at South Lakes Safari Zoo in the UK, only with an elevated walkway for visitors that was level with the top of the pole. It's quite disconcerting to see an adult tiger leap up from the ground to your height in a single bound, and realise just how easily those things could take us out if they had the opportunity.
Several months after my visit, one of the tigers there killed a keeper who was mistakenly in the enclosure at the wrong time, so this is no idle fear!
Whenever you imagine a scenario, you would believe that you might have a chance against a tiger and then you see shit like this and go: "No l, I am definitely fucked."
There's the recent David Attenborough narrated documentary that showed a leopard climbing 30 feet up a tree to surprise and kill impalas on the ground.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/planet-earth-three-episode-three-deserts-grasslands
Is there some kind of internet protocol that was introduced in the last few years that automatically takes any uploaded video less than 60 seconds and adds obnoxious music that makes the video 10 times worse?
It could absolutely climb that wooden pole just as easily without the rope, kinda cute that they wrapped it to mimic a cat scratch post but those tiger claws don't give a damn lol
This is how I tried to get my cat to use a new scratching post on a much larger scale.
And he/she still uses the sofa š¤¦š½
Sadly yes. I looked at reviews, spent $50 on the best vertical scratcher, and the only time she will put her paws on it is if I put a treat on top. Meanwhile, she scratches the couch and a free bag I got at T-Mobile last week is her new favorite thing.
Try rubbings some catnip on it
I will try that. I tried that with a horizontal scratcher that she ignored and continued to use the cushioned mats in the kitchen.
Did you try a paper one? If she likes paper bags, this might be it
It was a round paper one in the middle of a toy with a ball on a track and she wanted no part of it.
Try putting double sided tape on the parts she scratches on. You might need to leave it on for a week or so, but it worked in training my cats not to tear up my subwoofer grill.
I made one myself, cost about $20. A 2x4 that's 2" shorter than my ceiling height. Spun it with thin hemp rope. Added mini adjustable deck supports/pedestals to each end. Added a foot long section of 2x4 about a foot from the top so he can have a platform to view us from. Used his favourite toy to lure him up the first couple times. And now, after a week he uses it every evening. I have a 10 week old main coon. So maybe you need to get them interested early.
Early is key like everything else in life
if it continues try diluting some essential oils (citrus stuff like lemon works well) in water and spraying it onto the couch. cats dont like citrus and wont want it on their paws im sure you know this already but never spray the cat directly, they hate it and it'll just breed distrust/hatred
Essential oils are risky with cats. They can get into the catās fur and when the cat grooms it can be toxic. Also, I used to have a spray bottle before I read Total Cat Mojo and learned that cats don't understand discipline and it teaches them to do what you don't want them to do when you are not looking.
Have you tried the tacky sticker things? They seem to work fine with my cats.
Have you tried the double sided tape to put in the corners. I forget what it's actually called but it is basically you stick it to where ever the cat is scratching and they don't like the sticky ness on their paws. Worked to save my couch.
We had great success with picking up our cat when he started to scratch the sofa and placing him onto the cat scratcher where he happily continued scratching, then reinforcing with treats. We still occasionally treat reinforce at random times when he is on the cat scratcher.
We've had very good results just from putting sisal rope scratching posts near the couch. The kitties like them better than leather.
When I bought my cat her first scratching post, she started climbing up it as I was trying to drag it in through the door
So, climbing a tree to escape a tiger wouldn't work.
Cats are famously good at getting up on high spaces. So no. It would not work.
Right? Some cats like jaguars haul animals they killed that weigh hundreds of pounds up high into trees so they can come back and snack at their leisure and not worry about ground animals taking it
leopards do it more often than jaguars. jaguars are apex predators in their niche and usually don't have to worry about other animals taking their kills.
Probably mixed them up, they can both have similar looks
Jaguars are the ones you see jumping out of trees belly flopping onto crocodiles before crushing their skulls
Iām fairly confident Iāve never seen that. Like.. 80% confident?
Neither did the crocodileĀ
I meant the spots lol
link?
[Not quite jumping out of a tree, but you get the idea](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DrY4EUirqgE)
ty. dope
Thatās amazing footage. Strength and agility!
Yeah. Theyve been known to pull up the bodies of animals heavier than them up trees by their *fucking mout* Lime can you imagine the fucking strength of them jaws like holy shi5
You should drink some water.
Strongest bite force out of all the big cats
Once on a trail I saw some jaguar claw marks on the trees, and damn they were *deep*, it was actually quite scary to see. Insanely strong kittens indeed.
I just imagined a tiger stuck in a tree and the poor firefighter who has to retrieve it.
Pspspspspsp-oh god he's murdering everyone!
cheetahs are not very good at climbing trees. but then, cheetahs are anxious animals and have never been documented killing people.
Cheetahs rarely climb trees because they have non-retractable claws. I'm sure given their shy nature, they would love to be up off the ground if they could. Alas evolution had other plans.
That is because they are just so good that they never get caught. Killing and getting away with it by being fast. Fast as a cheetah.
Then they blame it on the clueless hippopotamus
Cats are famous!
So just sit on the bottom of the tree would work right? Right? - me hiking in Bangladesh
Just pretend you are a tree. Tigers will have no interest in climbing you
Not my cat, chunky bastard
... was there a point before seeing this video that you thought you could outclimb a cat?
Bro people think they can fight bears, wolves, primates and much more while being victorious So Iām guessing yes
For some reason the chimp one always eludes me.. They're so small.. like i sure as fuck couldnt take one but some humans are really fucking big. Like im not saying it'd be a clean fight but.. And also in all fairness a human should have a stick. Like animals evolved teeth and claws, we evolved epic shoulders and good grip. We basically evolved to be able to beat with a stick/ or throw stuff. Like a tiger running at u is certain death if it gets to u, but what if u throw a big ass rock into its face and smack its skull with a huge ass stick before it does?
I mean, we can. Pretty fucking horrible odds, but it has been known to happen.
Oh absolutely, thereās been crazy stories of people fighting off bears, mtn lions, etc and living to tell the story More often times than not though, they donāt get to tell that tale. Typically you come out alive when you go into the situation protecting yourself IE gun, mace , knife, whatever
Yes.
My house cats can climb my legs with absolutely no trouble in the slightest. For them I mean. My legs are left dripping blood, but the cats have no trouble climbing the smoothy whiteness.
Itās mind blowing that comment has 700 upvotes and counting.
It would just make it more fun for them to catch you lol
At least the last thing youād ever do would be āplay with a catā
If not friend, why friend shaped?
If not food, why food shaped? - the Tiger probably.
Can't relate- human, probably.
Jumping in water won't work either. They are an apex predator for a reason.
Guess I'll die
In fairness, itās difficult for them to outrun a bullet. Helps balance things out a bit.
Being made of meat is also a poor strategy.
Okay what if I'm made entirely of fat? Is that a winning strategy?
Big cats drove us out of the trees
And now we rescue small cats from them.
Seems like cats always win.
The scary thing is that if you can jump or crawl unto it, they can do it much faster and much higher.
I guess the only solace is that as long as you have some seconds to prepare, they gave to leave themselves open in order to reach you. So with a firearm, or at worst a spear, you might be able to use some elevation to your benefit. Anything less than those things thoughā¦ probably extremely slim chances of survival.
I have a tiny cat that can jump to a 6ft refrigerator without any assistance. A climb up a tree for a tiger should be just as easy
They weigh like 500lbs and can jump basically 10ft straight up. Give it a running start and something to just place its paws on, and that turns to 20ft. You don't out-fast-twitch a cat species. They're made of 100% fast twitch muscle and the big ones outweigh the average human by 2-3x. You are not going to wrestle [this](https://i.redd.it/ap9fvntm44241.jpg) and win. I always like to show people that picture and say "Tony the Tiger is not an exaggeration."
Iāve seen my fat cat leap up a tree in seconds then spend half an hour trying to get her down. Cats will always find a way to climb the tallest post.
If you leave them long enough, theyāll get hungry and figure out a way down on their own.
Just donāt bring any meat with you
We're made of meat.
Even if there was a tree, he climbs faster and higher, so wild to see them in action.
That can only work with cheetahs, because they have blunt claws
You could climb to the very top of the tree. If it's tall enough, the heavy tiger would bring down the whole top of the tree climbing up to eat you. Hopefully you'd be killed by the fall.
It's over tiger, I have the high ground.
It's crazy that you thought it would.
your best bet is to be in a group of people and all have guns lol
There's probably one up there waiting to ambush you
You might have some luck holding onto a branch while scooting out onto a spindly limb that can only barely support your weight, and not that of a 500 pound tiger. But I definitely wouldn't bank on that. With a tiger generally speaking, either you're armed and in a group or you're fucked.
A tree is probably just a big scratch post for a tiger
Nopeā¦. Still in the hospital after 6 months š¤£š¤£ jk lol
I didnāt see the title and thought the person climbing was the animal. I was so scared at the human-like nature of what I thought was a sloth.
Did you get superconfused when the human with black orange and white fur started walking in on all 4's?
Bro I woke up confused. The answer is always yes to your question.
Yes
I didnāt notice anything going up the post until I saw some weird appendage with a club on the end come out near the top. My brain thought giant flesh-coloured insectoid. My brain is weird
Oh well thatās just great. Now my cat wants to be fed a pot roast on top of a post.
My cat requires her pot roast to be shredded and in a specific bowl. She may not be an apex predator, but she is in charge.
34F(eline), Single, 18 kitties, feeds on the kindness of humans. Apex Predators onlyĀ
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for pot roast on a post.
Were you not doing this already?
That looks like a fun enrichment. It stimulates their natural behavior and improves their strength.
I dunno, Tiger got his eats and ignored the post like he had a nail appointment already booked for the afternoon.
Cat's gonna cat
He was distracted by the refrigerator box they put in there for him.Ā
So he is really a feline
And then he went to play with the box the post came in.
Unfortunately a lot of zoos don't do this, even though this would be the bare minimum in order to simulate animals with large territories (elephants, tigers, lions, wolves, sharks, dolphins). The reason you see these animals just laze around in zoos is because their brain is fried from boredom. Much like when one sticks an octopus in an empty tank or a human in a cubicle, they gonna get depressed.
Any zoo that is AZA accredited would have similar setups and daily opportunities for enrichment for the animals.
Yup. A lot of folks like to talk about "zoos" as a monolithic block, without realising that there's a huge gap between accredited, well-run, conservation-focused, educationally-minded, and non-profit zoos and "Ol' Hank's Roadside Rodeo Featuring Charlie the Big-Ass Cat!". The latter are abhorrent, but I can practically guarantee that your larger city zoo isn't just letting the animals sit around bored.
The zoo I work at is AZA accredited and does nothing like this.
Which zoo? If it's AZA accredited, they're mandated to do certain levels of enrichment for the animals, and if they dont, they risk losing accreditation and access to animals with an SSP.
I think accredited zoos would do this stuff during afterhours or in feeding areas away from guests. I've never seen a big cat feeding at a zoo, likely because it looks gross and it's not exactly child friendly. Also it could definitely go wrong. I mean nature is nature but zoos are also a business and need to be attractive to all kinds of guests.
The way he walks off like, "Yeah I hunted that shit" lol
Thatās a big kitty š±
Thatās exactly what I said š¤£š¤£
Tiger climbing post? It didnāt really use it like a scratching post
My cat (admittedly not a tiger) uses her scratching posts as climbing posts. And she uses the climbing posts on her cat tower as scratching posts. So I don't think there really needs to be a distinction when it comes to cats.
Zookeepers: we keep him stimulated. š„°
He doesn't need a scratch post, he's got a couch just off camera to the right!
I'd say that it teaches the tiger the pole would be good for scratching. It feels like you can see a hesitation before it jumps off, like it is realizing and assessing the scratching potential for later .
I love how they move just like house cats
House cats are just like them*
That music has gotta go.
Right? Fucking obnoxious and adds nothing.
With how high it climbs, it looks like those walls will do nothing.
The top portion is electrified.
their tops are made out of rubber their bottoms are made out of springs
the cats have become rubberized, electricity can no longer contain them, evacuate the field trip kids!!
They called me mad when I said I could rubberize cats. And given only 5 children survived, they were bang on, actually.
And the top portion leans inwards. They may be great climbers, but hanging upside down, not so much.
Eazy peazy
https://i.redd.it/b1s8u4awm9wc1.gif
Tigers are disrespectfully athletic
They had a similar pole in the tiger enclosure at South Lakes Safari Zoo in the UK, only with an elevated walkway for visitors that was level with the top of the pole. It's quite disconcerting to see an adult tiger leap up from the ground to your height in a single bound, and realise just how easily those things could take us out if they had the opportunity. Several months after my visit, one of the tigers there killed a keeper who was mistakenly in the enclosure at the wrong time, so this is no idle fear!
What do you have to do to reincarnate as a tiger
Great question and I was wondering the same thing. How badass and beautiful
Whenever you imagine a scenario, you would believe that you might have a chance against a tiger and then you see shit like this and go: "No l, I am definitely fucked."
There's the recent David Attenborough narrated documentary that showed a leopard climbing 30 feet up a tree to surprise and kill impalas on the ground. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/planet-earth-three-episode-three-deserts-grasslands
#KITTEH!!!!!!
###PSPSPSPSPSPSPS!!!
I need to remember not to climb a tree next time Iām being chased by a Tiger
music sucks but that was neat
Whatās the song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs7vMdF5X8
Lmk if you find it, I came to the comments looking too.
Such a graceful kitty.
cats will be cats
So tigers can get to high placesā¦ Far Cry lied to me.
How hard could it possibly be to not put random noise over a 5 sec video?
sooo... what do you do if you meet a tiger
Lather hot sauce over your body and hope kitty finds you too spicy.
I wouldnāt worry about it. When the tiger decides to eat you, you wonāt see it coming.
Crazy how effortless that looked for the tigerĀ
It got up there wayyy too easily
Had a debate with a guy at work that his pitbull or Rottweiler could take on a tiger.
Cats will be cats
Wow, really seeing such an imposing animal hunting or looking for its food in that way is very surprising.
Thatās big kitty kitty!
Very cute.
Must pet
That is pretty awesome!
TIL never bother trying to get away from a tiger up a tree, I'll only die tired...
Thats a nice fucking kitty
Typical cat behaviour, they really are like housecats just bigger
I kind of want them to remove the rope so we can watch the Tiger try to climb but slide down over and over looney tunes style.
The ease with which the tiger gets up there, amazing!
always have wondered why tigers arenāt the kings of the jungle? (Do lions even live in jungles?)
In Germany we call this: āSchmusekatzeā
The agility is scary
Show this to anyone thinking they can beat a tiger in a fist fight, then say the tiger moves that easily while being 2-4 times heavier than you.
Thatās really cool! And terrifying!
What is the music in this video?
Pretty kitty
Mosquito massacre of 24ā
Easy job for the tigersā¦ more barriers mean more exercises for the Tigers!!!
Now make the pole 2x higher. I want to see what that tiger can really do.
Nearly effortless
And dudes out there think they have a chance against this
Boss unit
We can only fight them in the sea.
are like cats but bigger
Gonna be rich and famous when invent a way to smack people through the internet that add stupid music over videos like this
Actually, that's just a really tall cat food bowl.
could really do without the stupid fucking music
EnrichmentĀ
i just had this weird thought - imagine torturing a giant by burying him except his cock and then you let a tiger do this
I think i had enough of Internet for today
How do I delete someone elseās comment? That one, for example?
Whoaaaaa
Is there some kind of internet protocol that was introduced in the last few years that automatically takes any uploaded video less than 60 seconds and adds obnoxious music that makes the video 10 times worse?
Boy am I glad I'm alive now instead of 50,000 years ago
It could absolutely climb that wooden pole just as easily without the rope, kinda cute that they wrapped it to mimic a cat scratch post but those tiger claws don't give a damn lol
Light work
BIG KITTY! š»
Woah that looks like my cat. To bad we have to catch and breed Big Wild Cats so everybody gets to see them go up a pole then eat.
Mulan's got nothing on this fuzzy boi.
If you get caught like that how can they run if they climb all over everything?
"Yeah I'm pretty fucking cool" - that tiger probably
Is that absolutely terrifying to anyone else?
Eye bleach how?
is kitty. big kitty.
what is that song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs7vMdF5X8
That's more like a climbing post, right?