ok, so the back to front carpet idea didn’t work, and I thought about buying the proper scratch post sisal string, but the cheapest I could find it online was about £30, and that seemed too much.
Then Anna and I were visiting a hop farm and they were selling hop string, £8 for about a mile of the stuff!
Later on, we spent an ecstatic 3 hours winding hop string round a heavy 2.4 meter fence post, but the good news ..read more