Sofa nightmare

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7. Oh what a difference a slip cover makes ;)

I was going to do the whole thing, buy the duck cloth, the thread, the needles, the foam, etc. and fix 'er up good.

Then I began to add all of these items up and OMG.

I had ordered a Sure Fit slip cover on ebay already and was hoping it would help some.

It came today and I went to trim off all of that old foam and hanging upholstery and figured I'd do the best I could with my sofa because as I said, I really don't want nor need a new one.

I was really shocked to hell and back when I cut the foam/upholstery from the arm in the picture in my first post on this. Beneath that falling off stuff is the wood frame. It has some very sharp and very strong nails exposed on it; seems they were pulled loose! This was a sure sign that my old cat, Mr. Flame, the 20 lb. Flame Point Siamese cat that I had the pleasure of having for 12 years worked it over good and then some! *eek*

He was doubtlessly the culprit -- the only cat I've ever had that weighed that much (solid muscle btw) that could have pulled the steel nails loose with his giant claws which was my horrific "discovery" re: this sofa nightmare today.



Poor Mr. Flame, he loved to claw so very much and yes, it just makes me sad again just when I thought I was beginning to get over my loss. Oh well, Flame was never yelled at nor corrected for clawing this sofa. I knew it was pointless given his purrsonality (not exactly a Mr. Nice all of the time), but my what a very fine cat he was -- a tribute to his species, the Flame Point Siamese (not sure he was a full-blooded one but he must have been close!).

Next time around (after this slip cover is dead and gone), I suppose I'll be buying a new sofa. As for the late Mr. Flame, the stupid sofa was worth every cent I paid for it even if it had served no other purpose but for Flame to claw the hell out of it when no one was seemingly looking ...

Mr. Flame. May you RIP.