You know, you’re definitely onto something, something so obvious that it never occurred to me! Cats don’t always get along right away with newcomers, whether it’s another cat or furniture. Why didn’t I think of something so simple as putting some old blankets on the couches for a few weeks and letting them get used to it? They just want everything in the house to be familiar. Oh well, we’ll know better when/if we get new couches in a decade or so. Thanks!
My old doggie used to sleep by the front door, too. He was a poofy 30 lb Eskie (brushed him twice daily but he’d still shed hair everywhere) who thought of himself as a ferocious guardian. Not the old bull terrier, she was a baby and would only sleep on the bed or she’d cry at night. I miss them both. :(
Thanks for the common sense advice!
My pleasure. In my case it was fairly easy. The cats were not babies, they had never done anything like that before, and it came to me pretty quickly that the only thing different in the house was this one chair.
Heck, even I could tell that it smelled different than anything else in the house! It had that “new” smell that some people like but must drive animals bananas. Since I couldn’t take away the “new” smell, I decided to just cover it up with a ME smell. The cats seemed to like how I smelled, so... crisis averted.
LOL
Regards,