Cat scratcher, reloaded The person spent an hour or so reupholstering my scratching post this morning with a $5 wool carpet remnant. I helped by watching the process intently and by jumping up on the kitchen counter to test scratch a piece of carpet while she was cutting it. I actually preferred the nice, comfortably lived-with look it had before to the way it looks now, but of course there's no need for it to stay the way it is now.;-)