My kitten lives at my boyfriends flat and i've never trained her to use a scratching post because the furniture is so old it's never been a problem. However, we're going to Turkey for two weeks in August and my kitten is going to stay at my parents in their newly decorated living room..... I do have a scratching post, so i was just wondering what's the best way to go about training her to use it? As my two older cats will not be leaving the flat when we go away (we've got someone lookin after the flat whilst we're away) i'll only be training the kitten. She's only 6 months old, so will it be difficult to train her? Any advice and tips will be much appreciated!

First off, if your just going to answer something like 'eww' or 'youll never get rid of them' or some dumb answer like that, for gods sake. I need a real answer not someone being retarded. They werent that bad. I am allergic to fleas, so when i saw one on her i flipped. She has been on frontline for atleast 3 months now. But when i noticed i broke out alittle i knew they were in the house. Im not infested. I shampooed the entire house, (moved all furniture, EVERYTHING, vacummed EVERYTHING shampooed and vacummed furniture) im in the process of cleaning all of our clothing. I gave her a flea bath and locked her in the bathroom until we were done. But she is biting again. I figured i wouldnt get rid of all of them, but... did i really do ALL that work for nothing? I mean i worked my butt off. I did everything anyone ever suggested. I srinkled stuff on the carpet to kill them. I put lavender in the furniture. I put lavender scents around the house. Please help. ANY suggestions help. I really hope i atleast helped the problem.

I'm looking into buying a leather couch but not sure if my cat will destroy it. He has had his front claws removed but still has back claws. He is pretty calm, but I'm a little worried his back claws will damage the leather....??

one of them has huge eyes that are always watering and cries a lot. my roommate expects me to give him his eyedrops when she's not home. i don't want to. he also always tries to run out the door and down the steps whenever i try to leave in the morning, and i have to run after him and bring him back upstairs, wasting like 5 minutes of my time when i'm just trying to get out to go to school or work. the worst is when i ride my bike and he runs out onto the porch and hides amongst all the boxes and crap on the porch. i don't have time for this. it's like he's constantly trying to make me late. the other one poops in the pantry every single day at least once, and tries to cover it with anything she can find, usually this rug which ends up getting poop all over the other side of it. she learned this from the other cat, because he used to do the same thing....at one point both of them did it but now only she does. i usually end up cleaning up after it, because i don't want to wait all day for my roommate to come home to clean it up and have to live in a shit-stinky zoo. it's not fair. she also goes through every trash receptacle in the apartment and then stashes everything she finds wherever around here. mostly q-tips and tampon applicators. fucking disgusting. sometimes she will bring out everything she has stashed and make a mountain of bloody used tampon applicators and yellowish q-tips in the middle of the living room floor. they both run around constantly and it sounds like stampeding, and they work together to knock over the garbage and recycling bin. they scratch all the furniture and carpet, all the time. none of the furniture is mine, it's their owner's, so i don't care, but the sound of it drives me insane. and what's worse is that they're definitely just doing it to piss me off because i will be sitting there screaming at them to stop and they'll keep doing it and alternately looking up at me with their huge creepy eyes. i love animals and i've had cats as pets since i was a kid, but i can't stand it, this is getting ridiculous.