Sylvester, your shiny black coat is beautiful and I hope you had a very special day! It's funny how we humans like to carry cats around in the baby position, but we do. As far as the scratching goes - Maybe you can get your people to bring you a hunk of log from outdoors when someone they know has a tree cut down - that worked for my fur-nephew. Meanwhile, if you'd have your people give that stellar coat of yours some petting for me, I would greatly appreciate it! Purrs and head bops from Illinois.