advice on pet "safe" furniture?

[Chakravartin]

ka jowct wrote:
Matt, consider getting a futon sofa. One of my friends has one and has never had a problem with her cats (foster cats and permanent residents) clawing the futon. Something about the futon cover and the futon itself just doesn't appeal to them the way more typical sofa fabrics do.

Probably just the same repulsion most humans over the age of 20 feel for futons.