
We were excited to find a black tower for our kitty to enjoy that wouldn't look hideous in our mostly black/modern apartment living room. The very reasonable price seemed almost too good to be true, but looking at the end result a month after setting it up for the kitty, I give this tower 5 stars.
At first there was some frustration, because the ikea-style directions mislabel two of the pieces, and instruct you to use the wrong piece right off the bat. We wondered why there was no bolt on the end of the first pole piece when there was a hole for a bolt to go into. Once we reached the end and had a pole with a bolt trying to match up to another piece with a bolt, we knew that first pole wasn't in the right place. Disassembled and reassembled -- not too big of a deal, but annoying.
We set it up in a corner near the window so our kitty could look outside. After a few weeks, she only ever went halfway up the tower and never jumped up to the top bucket-bed piece. We figured out that you could tug on the cloth/foam walls of the bucket piece and roll the fabric under so the kitty could see the now open top platform. After putting a treat or two up there, she started using the top area regularly.
She never crawls into the alcove, but she loves scratching on the posts, especially the top rope-covered post. She's not very into the dangly toys, but she likes the tower itself and when she's not on her favorite blanket, she's on the tower sleeping on the soft "kitty paw" landing or on the top tier.
I can see why some buyers complain that this tower is too small for big kitties. We have an adult female who likely had kittens at a young age, which will stunt a cat's growth. She is not a large cat, and this tower fits her perfectly. If she were any bigger, I doubt she'd be as comfortable sleeping on the landings or climbing up to the top tier. Another complaint is that the tower is too wobbly. It certainly wobbles on our carpeted floor when our kitty is climbing up onto the top landing, but we made sure to securely fasten the pieces together during construction, and I don't feel that it's dangerously unstable.
I definitely recommend this product to anyone with a smaller adult cat (or kitten!) who is looking for a fairly stylish tower for their kitty to enjoy.Get more detail about
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