Most cat trees are carpet on a post.
The Tower. Just over four feet of pale wood, sisal posts, a box house and a clear bowl near the top, built to be looked at as well as climbed.
Ships from a US warehouse. Three to eight days to your door, handling included. Nothing is pre-ticked on this page.
You have to live with it too.
A cat tree is one of the largest objects most people put in a living room, and the usual one is grey carpet wrapped around cardboard tube. It is bought in spite of how it looks.
This is plain wood with sisal where the claws go, which is the one place carpet actually earns its place. The scratching surface is the wearing part, so it is the part that is replaceable by hand with a few metres of sisal rope and an afternoon.
The carton is 530 × 431 × 230 mm for a tower nearly four feet tall, which tells you plainly that it arrives flat and you build it.
Including the rows we are missing.
The supplier files this one under "Material: Others", which is not a material. Everything we cannot stand behind is marked.
| Height | 48.8 in, which is 124 cm |
|---|---|
| Base footprint | Not published. The carton is 530 × 431 mm, so the base is smaller than that, but we will not turn a box size into a floor measurement and call it a spec |
| Frame material | Their sheet says "Others". It is photographed as a pale timber or timber faced board, and we cannot tell solid wood from veneered board in a photograph, so we are not going to claim either |
| Scratching posts | Rope wrapped, and the supplier calls the rope sisal. We can see rope in the photographs and we cannot identify a fibre from a photograph, so we are repeating their word rather than confirming it |
| House | Enclosed box with a cut out entry, mid height, with a ramp up to it |
| Bowl | Clear, near the top. The supplier calls it an acrylic hammock |
| Weight limit | Not published, and we have not tested it. The bowl in particular is the part we would want a figure for, and there is not one |
| Assembly | Flat packed, self assembly. Tools and time not stated |
| Suits | The supplier says small to large cats. There is no weight figure behind that phrase |
| Carton | 530 × 431 × 230 mm |
| Country of origin | China |
| Ships from | United States warehouse, New Jersey |
| Delivery | 3 to 8 business days, handling included |
| Stock today | 920 units, read from the warehouse as this page loaded |
Four reasons not to buy this.
If one of these is a dealbreaker, we would rather you found out here than after the box arrives.
You are building it.
Four feet of tower in a carton half a metre long means a flat pack and a set of instructions. If the thought of that is the reason you have put this off for a year, it will be the reason you put it off again.
We do not know what the bowl holds.
No published weight limit on any part of it, including the clear bowl near the top, which is the one we would most like a number for. We are not going to make one up. If you have a fifteen pound cat, that is your call to make unaided.
Sisal sheds and then it wears out.
That is sisal doing its job. You will sweep up fibres, and in a year or two of real use the posts will need rewrapping. Rope and an afternoon, but it is an afternoon.
It is one hundred and nineteen dollars.
You can buy a carpeted tower of about this height for half of it. That one will work. This costs more because of how it is made and how it looks in a room, and if neither of those matters to you then the cheap one is the right purchase and we mean that.