It's too bad, Charmion, about Watson and that one carpet; your reports of sending the carpet to be cleaned have become drearily regular and routine. I don't know what can be done when an aging cat claims an object in that fashion, you can't train him out of it in any way, can you?

Regarding the parlo[u]r, is it about the windows? The cats want the furniture a certain way so that they can see out the windows?