we've always had cats and kittens... and we got this wonderful "butter chair" as we lovingly referred to it. the softest most wonderful butter leather.... ohhhhhhhhh it was heaven to sit in.
anyway... within weeks it was completely destroyed. not from scratching but because the cats/kittens loved the chair as well and their claws just went right thru when they would stretch after a nap...
i would never have leather and cats myself...