I know a cleaner that uses the leather cleaner from Andrew Marc to remove or at least diminish scratches on leather jackets. I don't know if this will work on leather for a sofa but for $15 it might be worth a try. You can go their website to buy it. www.andrewmarc.com Have you contacted the manufacturer? Also talk to your local cobbler. They may have something that works too.

funny that the one lady (at Farmer's guess that should have been my first clue) says the complete opposite and then recently another reputible store here locally told me the very same thing lachase mentioned, that if you have pets DO NOT get leather, he told me a story of a lady who got an expensive leather couch and within the first week, her cat scratched a big ole claw mark across one of the seat coushions, NOT UNDER WARRANTY for pets, so she is SOL. I'm always so tempted, but it really would be a shame to have a nice piece of furniture damaged so easily and that would be forever to deal with looking at it (or at least as long as you had it, but who's going to buy it from you after something like that happens to it?

Those are lovely my3dogs. You are sweet for thinking of me. I do love velvet! I figure maybe someday when my kids are older and I don't have as many cats! beachlily your red sofa is lovely. thanks for sharing. Catmom and beverly too! Pal - thanks, that is great info. I am leaning towards the navy for sure now, good to know my wallet will be happier. Mags - that is gorgeous. Horchow always has such lovely things. :) Olychick - how strange that you have so many purple sets in Seattle! Pretty much all you see around here is brown and black on CL. DH is just not going to go for a used sofa again though I dont think. :( So I guess it doesnt matter. pamghatten - love that sofa. Is that a natuzzi? I think I saw one similar from them. The back cushions were attached though, so i had ruled it out. That is what is ripping on my current sofas. The seam in the back attaching the cushions to the sofa. I am hoping to go look next weekend. Not sure I will get a babysitter though yet.

oh wow, nannygoat! talk about getting caught red **handed**!! olivia's teeth are none the worse for wear and i, too, got a good laugh out of it. ya know, it's just "stuff". in the grand scheme of things, "stuff" isn't all that important to me. i mean, i like to have nice "stuff" and i do go to great pains to keep my "stuff" nice but still, it's just "stuff". it doesn't compare to the delight i feel when i see my 9 year old great dane having the time of her life! <3 socks, i had no idea there would be performing pigs in the circus. how funny! my pigs eat pellets specially made for pot bellied pigs. they love fruit of any kind (they will nibble on the rinds but when they get dried up, i toss them over the fence for the coons and possums to finish). they also love anything sweet, most especially marshmallows. lilly takes rimadyl for arthritis and all i have to do is poke the pill into a big marshmallow and it goes right down the hatch. try as i might, i can't get any of them to eat veggies except canned green beans!