You start with a cat and an intact furniture.
Then the cat decides to destroy certain furniture.
You now have a few options.
First: admit defeat and offer the sacrifice to the cat.
Second: provide enough scratch alternatives nearby and make sure to get the cat everytime they start scratching the wrong thing to the scratch tree.
Thrid: throw the cat out of the room as soon it destroys furniture. (scratch tree outside of the room.)
Fourth: be an asshole and cut their claws like a monster that would cut fingers of children.
Huh hah