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.

My family has an older set of furniture (couch, loveseat, and chair) that are normal expect for the armrest. The end of it is just wood... I don't know what style this is, and we wanted to get slipcovers for them because the fabric and cats do not get along. Most slipcovers I dont think will look right with this wooden piece right where your hand would lay...... I don't know how else to explain it. I would really like to know what I can google search to find what style and what type of slipcover to purchase. Thanks!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100224234048AAY9JLi&r=w#TLZIGHT1CVSH41GFkTW3 This girl said her mom is making her get her cat put down just because he's incontinent. She said that the vet told her he's "very healthy for his age." Does this make you mad that people will have a pet killed just because its become an inconvenience? I mean, they make incontinence products for pets - just because it would take a little extra work and the mom doesn't want her precious furniture ruined. If grandma or grandpa was wetting themselves would she have them put down too? This really disgusts me - a pet is a commitment just like a kid, whether it gets sick or has problems or not. I know it's not really about food&drink but I know there are people who post in this section who would have an opinion about it (hence I put that in parentheses).

We have two female cats, and recently put our black cat down. She was the "dominant" cat in our household, and ever since she has been gone, our other cat will not come in the house unless forced to, and when she is in the house, she won't eat and climbs all over the furniture, something she didn't do before. The two cats were never friendly with each other and would often chase each other around, although they generally tried to avoid each other as much as possible. Is it normal for a cat's behavior to change so drastically after the removal of another cat from its environment?