leather furniture and pets

**aprilfools** · 03-24-2003, 08:51 AM

Has anyone had any experience with leather furniture and pets? I am thinking of going with leather because of dog hair. I thought I read somewhere that the claws can mar it, though. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks.

**Unknown** · 03-24-2003, 10:07 AM

Um well, I have a friend that owns 2 Cocker spanials, And They have all leather furniture, No problems with fur, But they have huge rips out of it from dogs nails, Dogs hyperactivity ya know.

03-24-2003, 10:25 AM

Well, we have cats, no dog, but we have leather furniture. We bought it 12 years ago, as we were told it was "childproof".

Well, after raising two kids, and 3 cats, we can honestly answer: leather is CHILDPROOF, but not CATPROOF

**jenluckenbach** · 03-24-2003, 12:37 PM

check out the product soft claws. they have them for dogs as well as cats.

**aly** · 03-24-2003, 12:49 PM

My parents have a leather couch that Shiloh has scratched on accident by jumping just because that leather is so sensitive. I have a lazy boy that is vinyl though and it has held up with the dogs and cat. It looks just as good as leather in my opinion.

**lovemyshiba** · 03-24-2003, 03:17 PM

My mother in law has 2 dogs and a cat, and intact leather furniture. We have cloth furniture, and there is always hair on it. I guess it's just a personal preference, I've heard arguments for either way, same for interiors of cars.

**puppygrrl4eva7** · 03-25-2003, 09:47 AM

we have leather furniture and a dog, when we had our old dog a huge yellow lab it did scratch up the leather.But now we have a smaller yorkie puppy and he doesn't seem to bother with it (I think it's because he's so small).So I think if you have a small dog there would be less "damage".

P.S. we have two cats and the also enjoy using the arm of the couch as a scratch pad!

~Good luck

**wolfsoul** · 03-29-2003, 07:03 PM

I think vinyl is the best way to go

It looks almost exactly like leather, and is better to have with dogs, and it's alot cheaper!

**gkristian** · 03-29-2003, 11:07 PM

I think it depends on the coluor of the leather and the type of leather. I have a Sheltie and ever since we got him his been jumping on the cauch and there isn't any scrotches on it.

**snowdogs101** · 03-30-2003, 03:27 PM

I had leather furniture. The keyword is had. I have 2 siberian huskies and they love to chew leather. Anything, so needless to say i have had to throw my leather couch, chair and ottoman out and get regular furniture. NOt good Idea for pets I think.