This is the first winter I've had my own car, and I've decided it sucks really bad. To start out, it's broke down, but I'm getting that fixed in a few weeks. Even if it was fixed, I couldn't drive it right now because of the never-melting ice that's on my driveway. So, I thought "hey, at least it's safe in the driveway," nope, it's not even safe there. I had the car clean, I spent a whole day cleaning, washing, and waxing it really well just before winter, to try to keep it clean. Well, it snowed about 6 inches over the time of a week, and I didn't think it would do too much to the car since it's just snow. The snow made it more dirty than having it sit there for a few months

. Seriously, the snow has made it so dirty that I would be embarassed to drive it like it is. It's too cold to wash it too. So, I'm thinking about getting a car cover for it, but my mom has a spoiled cat, and we have two more cats that know their role a little bit better. I figure that if I spend good money on getting a car cover, the cat's will see it as a scratching post, and then I'll have to kill them if they scratch my car. I'm more protective over my car than anything else, so if I pick one, I want it to be a good quality one, and hopefully be cat-deterrant. Anyone have any experiences with car covers that would be useful to someone looking for one? Do you all think the cats would scratch it? Is there anything I can do to keep the cats away from the car (other than scaring them to death every time they get near it)?