How to protect a sofa from cats and dogs?

In our daily life, pets are our friends, many of us will keep a dog or a cat in their home.

As we know, pet will spend most of their time on the living room, some of them will lay on the sofa, which is warm and comfortable. So it is easily broken the sofa when pets spend too much time on it.

In this article, we will discuss the reason why pets like stay on sofa and how to protect our precious sofa.

Why pets likes stay on sofa and broken them?

This is actually a simple question, we also like to stay on sofa during our daytime. When we are living at home and enjoying our leisure time, bed, sofa, table, chair etc.. which one is our favourite.

Apparently, sofa is our first choice,it is more convincing than bed, because we could get up and go to do other things easily when lay on sofa, but it seems a little difficult for laying on sofa.

For pets, like dogs and cats, it is the similar. Laying on sofa is comfortable and feeling cozy.

Besides, they can feel their master’s scent on sofa, it can make pet feel safety.

Therefore, it will lead to a new question, pets spend more time on the sofa, they will broke sofa more easily, like piss on the sofa, bite sofa, leave fur or foot print on the sofa. These danger will make sofa dirty, ugly, affect the aesthetics of the home.

How to protect sofa

Generally, we have four ways to protect sofa. All the ways have its unique advantages and disadvantages. If we have similar problem, we can choose one of them according to the situation.

Fully-covered sofa slipcover

Use a fully-covered sofa slipcover can protect sofa well. It has good performance in waterproof, anti-hair, anti-scratch,anti-stain,full coverage. A high quality sofa slipcover can meet your needs well. If the size is appropriate, the slipcover can be a part of sofa, few people can recognize it.

Therefore, when choosing slipcover, we should choose size carefully, the size is very important. Then we suggest to pay more attention to the material and quality, if it is durable and scratch-resistant, machine-washable, anti-slip, and elastic fit.

Besides, the disadvantage of slipcover is the laying, it is a little more difficult than sofa cover and cushion. So we’d better need 2-3 people to complete the laying work.

For slipcover products, it is more suitable for households with dogs, especially those with young puppies or hairy dog breeds, after all, laying it took some effort.

 Sofa cover or sofa cushion

This is also a good choice for sofa protection, laying is easy, and it can still achieve the effects we mentioned above.

So what is the different between sofa slipcover and sofa cushion, slipcover is fully-covered, but sofa cushion or cover is partly sofa protected. This makes it partly protect sofa.

The advantage of sofa cushion is cheap, beautiful and easy to replace. We can buy several covers to prepare a few extra ones for easy rotation and cleaning.

For these kind of products, we can lay on the place where pets usually lie down.

Anti-scratch protective film

For some pet, like cats or dogs, they love to grab the armrests and corners of the sofa. Under this situation, anti-scratch protective film is very important.

This is transparent and invisible, without damaging the appearance of furniture. So the original appearance of the sofa can be preserved by using this film. It is popular for some people does not like sofa slipcover. Besides, for some sofa, its armrest is made by wood, so sofa cover is not suitable.

It is a good choice to prevent pet scratch, leather peeling, fabric snagging.

Bumper strip, hard-edge protective cover

This is another way to protect sofa corner. Pets usually run in the living room, if they move too fast to stop, they will run into sofa and hurt themselves easily. Some smart pets will bite sofa after hitting sofa. So we can use bumper strip to protect this kind of situation.

Pet training

To reduce or eliminate this kind of situation, we had better pay some time in pet training. Teach our lovely dogs and cats stay safety at home.

By the way, we also can prepare a sofa and cute little cushion in the living room nearby the sofa, so when they feel boring at home, except stay on the sofa, they also can stay on their cushion. For many dogs, because it is larger than cats, so their cushion maybe more attractive than sofa.

Besides, we can buy some substitute for our little pets, like born, teething stick,scratching post etc.

If available, we can teach them to have less interests in sofa, and pay more attention to other things.

Daily cleaning and maintenance

When we choose sofa cover or sofa slipcover to protect our sofa, here are some suggestion to length the life span of sofa.

We suggest to prepare some hair removal tools. Actually it is necessary for us with pets. It can improve our life quality well while stay with our pets.

Also we should wipe the dirty timely when dogs or cats piss on the sofa. At this time, we should remember to avoid to use irritating odor products to prevent dogs love it.

Besides, we should do regular deep cleaning.If we choose sofa cover, We’d better clean and dry them every month. For leather sofa or fabric sofa, we can clean is yearly, like perform moisture-proof and mold-proof processes, and remove the odor from the sofa.

Conclusion

We could apply sofa slipcover or sofa cover. This is most effective, and cost is also lowest.

Later we could start pet training work, prevent our pet broke sofa.

Then we should insist daily maintenance, make sure sofa is clean and smell good.

By these three steps, we could length sofa span,and create a good, health, and beautiful home decoration. Then sofa is also good and durable.