Hi Kristy, I can appreciate your frustration with the couch digging. We ave 10 ferrets, and well.. really nice new leather furniture. They never bothered it until one day ONE of them discovered he COULD get in. As you surmised, once one gets in, the rest soon follow! After several fixes I tried that DIDN'T work, I finally went down to the fabric store, and bought a length of thick naugahyde (fake leather) and totally covered the bottom of the couch, stapling it on every 1/2 inch. BEFORE I did that though, I turned the couch upside down, ans used a sailcloth needle (long curved needle) and thick waxed buttontwist thread to sew up the spaces where the back meets the seat, and the seat meets the sides. Most of it was fairly simple with the curved needle, although I did have to use a few pieces of heavy canvas to cover spaces around the part where the seat met the sides. Its all sewed up tighter than a drum now, and though it took me the better part of a day, I havent had a problem. I have watched them try once in a while, but they cant get in. I did this about 8 months ago, and its still fine. I did try and get the closest match possible for the bottom of the sofa colourwise to the rest of it, and I doubled the edges in, and left about a 1/2 inch edge all the way around, so you cant see it if you are looking at the couch. I also pulled it prety tight. The couch can still breathe, because of the canvas used around the seat :) Good luck! Mary and the terrible 10 [Posted in FML issue 2561]