People Are Way Smarter Than Cats

Cats are great, fun, and pretty darned smart. Over lo these many decades I've seen much evidence of this. From one I had in my youth named Buff who was adept at sticking his paw into a milk glass to get a drink to another named Ursa Major who would entertain us by leaping from a bench on a boathouse over water to a dock several feet away.

However, they are nowhere near as smart as a human of even average intelligence.

The reason I bring this up is to give hope to those whose cats are exhibiting behavior they don't like, mainly clawing things they shouldn't.

As a vastly more intelligent human, you should have no trouble training your cat to do what you want it to do. It's not hard at all. To help you along, Natural Scratch comes with an easy-to-read-and-use training manual. Have a look at naturalscratch.com.