TRIXIE Altea Cat Tree, Tall Scratching Posts, 3 Elevated Platforms, Dangling Cat Toy, Cat Playground, Platinum Gray

Best for smaller cats and needs bracing, but great for the price
Great cat tree, especially for the price. As others have noted, the base is small which makes it inherently pretty unstable, and you’ll most likely need to brace it somehow. I positioned this next to a short, fairly solid piece of furniture, and used a cargo strap to loop around the furniture and secure it to one of the posts on the cat tree. That’s been plenty adequate. You could also use a heavy sandbag across the base, or attach a furniture bracket (like the ones you’d use to prevent bookshelves from tipping over) to the underside of the middle shelf and attach it to the wall. You can find a method that works for you, just be aware without bracing of any kind your cat might find it too wobbly and unstable to use.My cat took awhile to start using this tree, but now she loves it. I’ve had a hard time getting my cat to scratch appropriate stuff (she’s had like six different sorts of scratching posts but always goes for the couch instead), but she LOVES the posts on this and uses them often. She really likes to sit on the top shelf and get a high up view out our patio doors. She is a fairly small cat though, only about 8.5 pounds; if she was really big, I’m not sure she’d find the shelf size on this tree very roomy.My box was missing a piece, the very top platform wasn’t there, but I didn’t notice until I’d assembled everything else and I did NOT want to take it apart, rebox it, and ship it back to Amazon for replacement. Instead I contacted the company that makes it, Trixie Pets, and asked if they could ship just that individual part to me. They were super responsive and had it on the way to me the next business day.Overall I’m really happy with it, it’s been holding up well and it’s on about the same level of quality as cat trees I see in my local pet shops for 2-3x the price. I wish the base was bigger, as that’s a pretty significant design flaw, but coming up with a way to solve that problem was easier than coming up with a lot more money to buy a different cat tree. 😀

4+ years and still good
We’ve had this for over 4 years now. I would buy it again because at around thirty dollars it is a great value.Summary – placed in a corner, this will last. Big enough for a huge cat perch, though preferred by the normal sized one. Rope will need replacement now and then, but is more attractive to scratch than carpet.This is not a free-standing unit unless you have cats that are very slow and delicate climbers.Our tree is in a corner near a window, and the bottom is weighted down with a few bricks. My gigantic 17 lb long and tall cat loves curling up on the base with the brick (he’s odd) or the lower platforms. He will perch on the highest one and sometimes snooze there, but it’s a little small for him.My smaller (normal adult sized) cat can nap on all the leaves. He often acts like a kitten on this tree. He bounds across the furniture and launches himself onto the platform (which is why this needs to be in a corner), and then he attacks the post. He goes NUTS. There has been no damage to the platforms despite him slamming it into the wall on a regular basis.The original rope did not last long on the top post, but it’s very easy to re-wrap.We have this perch in the corner of our family room, and the cats have never once scratched at the couches. The rope is more satisfying than fabric.

GREAT buy!
I got this for my two kittens. They’re 6 months old. One is 5lbs, the other is 7lbs. My neighbors can’t believe the deal I got. This would probably go for $150+ at PetsMart or PetCo.Assembly was easy. The instructions weren’t in English, but you won’t need them. I put it together in 10 minutes just by looking at the picture. Everything screws together, no tools required.Con – The kittens tore off the hanging ball before I even finished putting the tree together. They LOVE elastic. I just stapled another toy to the tree to replace the ball, and they love that just as much.Other reviews said it wasn’t sturdy. I would say, it’s not the sturdiest. It can wobble if you try to make it wobble. I’ve had it in the corner of the room and the kittens haven’t even come close to knocking it over.

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Prodotto originale, robusto, semplice da montare ed arrivato nei tempi. Per ora la micia sembra apprezzi. Ha l’altezza giusta per permetterle di guardare comodamente fuori dalla finestra e non é troppo ingombrante da tenere in casa. Tanti punti in cui rifarsi le unghie in tranquillità.. consigliato