My tabby Rodin (RB this past summer) used to have a furniture fetish, too. Only his was different. He had to LICK all the new furniture that came into the house! He would literally be unside down licking the bottom of it to make sure he got it all! He was a little strange. He went through a wall licking stage too. Nothing worse than waking up to the sound of a raspy kitty tongue on a textured wall in the middle of the night!