Catit Model Scratcher with Catnip – Jungle-Stripe Lounge

Cats love it
I have a seven pound ball of fury names Azrael. Azrael’s sole purpose in life is to destroy whatever toys or scratching posts I bring home for her. Azrael is about 15 months old. In Azrael’s short 15 months, she has destroyed three scratching posts.Now keep in mind that I don’t just keep one scratching post in the house. To the contrary, I have at least one in every room of the house (I just counted nine in my head, but that may be off). My strategy for dealing with adolescent cats/kittens is to place a scratching post or pad in any place that I see them scratching up something I don’t want them to scratch up. That strategy, along with a deterrent spray, will work after a while.I have another cat named Lucky who is far more gentle. He also has much larger claws. With opposable thumbs. When he reaches out his claws, it reminds me of that claw game where you can get a free hat. While he is very, very good at keeping his claws retracted, he sometimes needs to exercise them. Therefore, he also does a number on the scratching posts and pads that I bring home even if he uses them far less often.I like these scratching pads because they are inexpensive, and that makes them extremely replaceable when my cats inevitably destroy them. They are also surprisingly durable. The original one I bout about three years ago is still in my home, though I think it’s days are now numbered. I see Azrael on it all the time. The problem is that, after three years of use, a small hole has developed. I decided that the hole posed an injury risk to a cat walking on it, so it needed to be replaced. I bought two more.The positives far outweigh the negatives here. Since I’ve already outlined the positive, I’ll mention the negatives as well.The corrugated cardboard is not a barrier of any kind. In other words, if you sprinkle catnip on it, the catnip will fall right through to the floor. I found that when I do this, my cats will try to move the pad out of the way to get at the catnip. I personally don’t even understand why they even include catnip. If you have cats, you should probably have some catnip somewhere in the house as well.This also makes a bit of a mess because the small pieces that the cats claw off when they are sharpening their claws fall through to the floor as well.I now have four of these (one of which is going in the trash due to its three years of abuse). I use them specifically in rooms and areas that don’t have carpet. That makes the mess easy to clean up. For the rooms with carpet, I opt for a different option. I have two remaining scratching pads in my home that I will probably replace with these once they wear out.

Great cat scratcher
My cat loves these scratchers. They are sturdy and withstand quite a bit of scratching from my cat which keeps them from scratching the furniture! Highly recommend this scratcher!

My 4 kittens love this Cat Scratcher and it matches my decor too!
Purchased this Scratcher because of how stylish it looked and because it also matches our décor of black and white. Having 4 kittens I wanted to train them to use the scratcher as early as possible before they decided that my furniture is their scratching post and it is a good thing that I did that. Now that they are 13 weeks old they use all their scratch pads and posts that I purchased for them when they were 6 weeks old, thank goodness!Having had this item for several weeks and with daily use, I will say it has held up very well. The price may be inexpensive but the product is not. They use this scratch pad several times a day and I have 4 kittens. If they do try to scratch the dining rooms chairs I just slide the scratch pad right next to them, place their paws on it and they scratch this instead and are off to playing. They are not into catnip yet but they are attracted to everything so I did not need to use the catnip that came with this item.I love how you can turn this scratch pad over if and when it wears down, this way they have more to scratch on. The design is just lovely, it looks like a cute bed with animal stripes. They do enjoy scratching it, playing on it and sleeping on it. So, they do get many uses out of it!Great item! Glad I purchased it and will be purchasing more in the future! Great item for all cat/kitten owners for sure!

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We’ve a variety of scratch boards. We’d rather they wore their claws down on the tighter corrugations of other boards but 2 out of 2 cats prefer this scratch board! So a little more cleaning required but worth it to see the little ones go.