Pets on MCM  

Awwwww.
Pretty Weimaraner, Rockland. (I don't know how the breed actually stacks up, but I've at least always thought they look as though they're THE most intelligent dog. Weimaraners look so thoughtful!)

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I just lost my senior at 16 1/2 this summer. I have always had two.
Scary smart. A pleasure if one has the time. I'm involved in rescue and
am well aware of bad breeding.

Loki only likes the Platner's
or the Eames ottoman.

Cats do seem to enjoy Platners.
But, I've found their all time favorite to be the Saarinen executive armchair. Cat paradise.

I find my cats love my Lobby...
I find my cats love my Lobby chair, and a Knoll arm chair. Pic of the naughtier of the pair...Momo...

Here's Calliope running away...
Here's Calliope running away from the Camera and enjoying a bath

Beautiful home, Jesgord ...
Beautiful home, Jesgord (And cute dog!)

If you have pets
the "you'll never be able to sell it on Craig's List" (because of the pet hair) is irrelavant.
I would like it if my cats wouldn't favor my couch, but that's what usually happens when you have animals....and all of your photos are just great!

Jesgord, I see your Chin and raise you a Chin...
This is our one-eyed, two-toothed Bumble

Bustown-Bumble is adorable! ...
Bustown-Bumble is adorable! Glad to see there are other MCM loving chins out in the world. My in-laws have my wife's first Chin out in Ohio. Same coloring as Bumble but shaped like a football.

Is it just our cat who loves...
Is it just our cat who loves dirty furniture?! Once got a leather armchair that was covered in years of dust and dirt and he was straight up onto it and snuggled into it like it had always been his chair. He hasn't touched it since I cleaned it up! He doesn't mind though cos as you can see he rather likes the Gplan housemaster chair. He moved just as I took that photo - he had been sitting like a person a second before!

That's a ...
very handsome beast!

Jinx--
The little bastards always move, right when you grab the camera in anticipation of capturing Youtube Gold*.
I think they've learned it from their guru Michigan J. Frog.
* >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

so how do you keep them from
damaging the furniture? I have never had a cat. I grew up in house with 4 kids, 2 Parrots (very destructive) and several big dogs and know first hand what animals can do.
I now live in 1100 SF condo that I have over the years filled with some furniture I really love.
My significant other is really pushing for a cat, I am very worried about the interaction between the cat and say my vintage, pristine rosewood Eames lounge chair, or the new Swan chair re covered in red fabric 🙂
I know it is only furniture but if I came home the cat using the Eames as a scratching post I am not sure how that would go!
I think the current plan is to try to adopt a cat that has been declawed.
Any advice on living with cats and MCM furniture?

Ask ten different cats what they like to destroy...
... get ten different answers. My current cat only wrecks rattan and ignores upholstery, the last one especially loved sinking his mitts into leather chairs. Irritating? Yes. But when all is said and done, I've gotten far more pleasure from my cats than from any inanimate objects I've owned.
I don't condone cat de-clawing; but, since there are undoubtedly orphaned cats who've already suffered this cruel surgery, they'd be good adoption candidates for someone afraid for their upholstery, like yourself. (Hope that's not construed as implicit approval of de-clawing as an appropriate "solution" to the problem. Better to forgo getting a cat, than subject one to this surgical procedure.)