Flat scratcher
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Cat Scratchers
Vet-Designed Cat Scratchers for the sofa arm, the rug and the doormat
A 60 cm paper-rope post for the cat who stretches up the sofa arm, flat corrugated pads for the one who rakes the rug, and lounges that take the scratch and then the nap. Designed by emergency vet Dr Duncan Houston around where cats scratch, not where you would like them to.
A vet behind every range. Gary behind every decision.
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5.0 average rating
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Why this range exists
“She was never scratching the sofa. She was scratching the nearest upright thing.”
Scratching is claw maintenance, a full-body stretch and a scent mark, all in one movement, and a cat does it on whatever is upright and within a step of where she woke up. In most houses that is the sofa arm. So the fix is not a spray or a shout; it is a better upright thing in the same place, a post that does not rock beside the arm she uses, a pad on the rug corner she rakes, and a nail trim every few weeks. The other reason this range exists is what I see when it goes wrong: cats who were declawed for a sofa, in my emergency room years later with sore feet and a litter tray they will not use. Declawing is an amputation. A pad in the right place is the alternative. Gary's post stands where the sofa arm used to get it.
Dr Duncan Houston Emergency veterinarian and founder of PURRZ™
Reviews
PURRZ™ reviews
600+ Judge.me reviews across the range.
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Cats love this. It is a bit smaller than I thought it would be but they love it regardless and they are fussy with toys.
Expand & Flex Toy customer -
I bought this for my cats — Rilke, Iris and Delphine — and they absolutely love it. All three have claimed it as their new favourite spot in the house. The design is adorable, the quality is great, and it’s become a multi-purpose hideaway/scratcher/resting spot.
Giant Cat Tunnel, Scratcher Lounge, and Wool Ball Set customer -
Combining a scratching box with a two level relaxing place is just perfect for our fur baby. A new favourite spot (hide, scratch, relax). Corrugated cardboard is not only great for clawing but is also robust so still looks good. This is one of a few products we have bought and all of them are well loved by Charlie.
Giant Cat Tunnel, Scratcher Lounge, and Wool Ball Set customer
Part of the Ask A Vet ecosystem
Talk. Track. Trust. Ask A Vet.
PURRZ™ is the cat product arm of Ask A Vet, Dr Duncan Houston's animal health platform. Log her weight, her nail trims and her medications in one profile, set the reminders, and chat with a certified vet when the scratching changes.
Health tracking
Weight, vaccinations, medications, symptoms.
Certified vet chat
Talk to a real vet when something is not right.
Smart ID Tag
Links to your cat's lost-cat profile.
Reminders
Worming, flea and tick, nail trims.
Questions cat owners ask about scratchers
Short answers from the vet who designs the range. Health questions go to your own vet, or a certified vet in the Ask A Vet app.
Will a scratcher stop my cat scratching the sofa?
On its own, no; in the right place, with two other things, almost always. Put it right beside the spot she scratches now, not across the room. Cover the old spot with double-sided tape or a throw for two weeks. Trim her front claws every two to three weeks. Cats do not move to a better surface elsewhere; they use the one where the habit lives, so the new one has to be where the old one was.
Post or pad?
Watch her scratch once. Front paws up the sofa arm, spine long, claws hooked in high: a post, at least as tall as her stretch, which for most cats is under 60 cm. Claws raked flat across the rug or the doormat: a pad on the floor. Many cats do both, and the ones who do get one of each. A cat who scratches the sofa cushion sideways is a pad cat, whatever the sofa suggests.
How long does cardboard last, and is shredding normal?
Shredding is the scratcher working: the claw goes in, drags, and takes the old sheath with it, and the shreds are the sign it is being used. A corrugated pad lasts months of daily use before it is worn through; the Scratch & Lounge pad lifts out, and the Spin & Scratch and the Expand & Flex are replaced whole and recycled. A cat who eats the shreds rather than leaving them should lose the scratcher and have the habit mentioned to your vet.
Where should it go?
Beside the thing she scratches now. The post goes next to the sofa arm, the door frame or the chair leg, with its 30 cm base against the furniture so it cannot rock; a pad goes on the rug corner or the doormat she rakes. In a house with two cats, one scratcher per cat plus one, in the rooms they each live in. A scratcher in the spare room is furniture.
Kitten or older cat: which one?
A kitten learns a post at eight weeks and rarely learns the sofa, so the post first, with a flat pad for the rug. An older cat wants everything dead still and low: the Scratch & Lounge has an 11 cm wall she steps over, the flat pads have no step at all, and the post needs its fixing checked so it never rocks under her. A senior who has stopped scratching altogether, or who limps after she scratches, is a vet check before a new scratcher; that is often arthritis.
What if she ignores it, or it arrives damaged?
Ignoring it in week one usually means it is in the wrong place: move it beside the spot she scratches now and give it two weeks; drag a wand toy slowly up or across it so her claws catch, and never work her paws on it yourself. If it arrives damaged or wrong, email hello@purrz.com within 7 days of delivery with a photo and your order number; faulty, damaged or incorrect items are covered and we pay the return shipping when the error is ours.