Keep your cat mentally stimulated and offer it plenty of opportunity for exercise, and it will have less opportunity to be destructive in your home. If your cat is frustrated or bored, it may chew your plants, scratch your furniture or tear your draperies. Changing your cat's behavior is not impossible, but frequent exercise is one of the best solutions to behavior problems.

A scratching post is crucial to your cat's good health. It not only relieves it of its innate desire to scratch, it is a form of exercise. Cats can literally exhaust themselves playing with toys. Good toys will encourage activities like scratching, chasing and batting. Toys that make sudden movements will pique your cat's curiosity.