Some cats are quite intelligent, as this photo shows. Not ours!

"Oh, we get many of these back again," said the furniture repair guy, after inspecting the scratches and quoting us $1,000 to fix the leather lounge suite.

When a cat attacks your furniture, he said, it often happens again - no matter what you try and do to stop it.

For that reason we've kept our old furniture for far longer than we should.

All because of our lovable Birman cat - the same breed as the one taking the photo above.

Here's how the experience changed my life.

Joanne could have doubled her Canada Lotto 649 jackpot of $20 million with my LottoPredict. Via CTV

As my research keeps adding new winning results to LottoPredict, its usefulness just keeps getting better - and players are winning constantly.

It all happens because of the ongoing tweaks I make:

My daughter steadies a climber on the indoor rock face.

The indoor rock climbing instructor was one of those rope-star daredevils.

Long hair, lean athletic body... he looked as if he should be on a vast rock face somewhere - instead of a small 3 storey room sandwiched between an auto parts business and a courier firm.