Riley wants in! We try to keep the cats out of our bedroom especially when we are not home and at night. Riley scratches at the carpet when it is closed and has torn a good hole in our carpet down to the sub-flooring. I have tried a cat repellent spray, putting things in the way, covering it with a rug. I think we are going to try soft paws because hubby is getting really frustrated and is threatening declawing since it is something his family has done to all their cats. I try to trim his nails but it hasn't helped a whole lot. He still gets a pretty good grip on the carpet. I was putting him in the garage but we had a borrowed car in there for a couple weeks and didn't want him crawling on it and scratching it up. I really don't want to declaw him. And it isn't scratching to sharpen his claws it is he wants in! I was thinking maybe a baby gate but he would probably claw underneath the gate. I am thinking about taking him to the humane society since that was the original plan in the first place when I picked him up off the road and really will do that before I declaw him.