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CBS3 Pet Project: How To Accommodate Your Cat's Scratching Habits

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- On this week's CBS3 Pet Project, Carol Erickson, an animal advocate with the PSPCA, discussed how to accommodate your cat's scratching habits. Erickson said scratching is a natural cat behavior and there's nothing we can do to deter it.

"The best thing to do is to accommodate their natural desires and have a vertical scratching post, a horizontal one, and even one hanging by the door because sometimes they like to scratch that when you first come home. Also one near their napping area," Erickson said.

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