The rug is beautiful and the perfect color for my room - soft browns, tans, and touch of greyish-blue; however the minute my cat put his claws into it chunks of wool pulled out.  I have many rugs in my house and my cats don't continually claw the rugs, but they will on occasion and typically a wool rug stands up the best, but the threads in this one must not be attached as securely to the backing as my other wool rugs.  I had to move it under my bed to have less of it exposed to the cat.