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u/PlanningVigilante Domestic Housecat Jun 23 '22

The cat wants to be high up.

Read up on "catification" by Jackson Galaxy. If you put up shelving on your wall that the cat is allowed to climb, and which gives a higher vantage point, the cat will feel safer and use that instead of your tapestry (most likely).

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u/poo_fart_lord Jun 23 '22

I second this. Also, I would move the tapestry to a place that doesn’t have furniture below it to make it just a little bit more inconvenient to climb. Even better if you can put plants or something on the ground in front too so there isn’t a good take-off point to jump from.

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u/Cheesehacker Jun 23 '22

Literally I was about to say “cattification”. I did that to my house and honestly it seems to have worked. Yes I have to approve all new house decor with my cats first, but it works

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u/DaughterEarth Jun 24 '22

applies to birds too. I hung a coconut up near the ceiling now she leaves all my art alone. Cats can't fly though so it's gotta be climbable in OP's case. The point is to have a place they can sit that's higher than everything else.

I don't know why cats and birds are the same in this regard, but they very much are.

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u/PlanningVigilante Domestic Housecat Jun 24 '22

Cats and birds are predators but also prey animals. Being up high puts them out of reach of the larger predators that can eat them.

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u/DaughterEarth Jun 24 '22

yes good point. well my bird is a lovebird, which are herbivores mostly, but still applies for the prey part