"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." — Garrison Keillor
I like cats. I really do. And not because they bring me work. But there are times when I commiserate with cat owners over what their pet has done to their furniture. Sometimes the damage is minor, at times it's extreme.
Take this leather three-seater couch, for example. The owner's elderly cat had taken to using the seat for a toilet on at least a couple of occasions. The damage caused by the cat's urine was significant, contaminating not only the leather and adjacent synthetic materials, but also the foam, the wooden frame, and even the metal bolts!
Remedial work involved replacing the contaminated leather and foam, as well as treating the wood and replacing the corroded bolts, among other things. Finally I recoloured the replacement leather to match the existing. Fortunately, our client's insurance company came to the party. And the cat? It had used up all of its nine lives.
Take this leather three-seater couch, for example. The owner's elderly cat had taken to using the seat for a toilet on at least a couple of occasions. The damage caused by the cat's urine was significant, contaminating not only the leather and adjacent synthetic materials, but also the foam, the wooden frame, and even the metal bolts!
Remedial work involved replacing the contaminated leather and foam, as well as treating the wood and replacing the corroded bolts, among other things. Finally I recoloured the replacement leather to match the existing. Fortunately, our client's insurance company came to the party. And the cat? It had used up all of its nine lives.
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