Sharples-n-Grant Playpost Cat Scratcher

This cat scratch post is good for the price. The last one I bought lasted just over a year, so I would say it’s worth the price.

I bought one for the kittens. I've 6 at the moment. 3 waiting to be adopted.. They loved it from day one. Nothing to see 2 or 3 hanging off it and 1 or 2 curled round the bottom. The little ball has been ripped open and the material is hanging out, but they don't seem to mind so I've left it. That's my excuse anyway. Hate sewing. Lol. At night mum and the kittens sleep in the hallway. The base seems the favourite place for her to sleep. All in all, bargain for the money. Some have said its not really suitable for adult cats. Oreo, mum seems to use it just fine. When this one gets past it won't hesitate to buy again.

Bought for a growing kitten, worked great for a few months before some of the rope detached than after about a year of usage the pole detached from the bottom, we DIY'd it back together and had another by that time but didn't seem to last the time, otherwise worked as expected.

The feral lunatic that wandered into my home and, I assume, mistook it for the bin in which it previously lived and stayed was my first experience with sharing a house with a cat. I had tickled some on the street before. I'd even briefly spent time with people who owned cats and those cats had generally ignored me or, in one solitary case, demanded to play fetch at 3am in the dark.None of these fully prepared me for a howling cat covered in clumps extending claws honed on wooden fence posts and using them to violently rake my sofa, my leg, my speakers and, most deliberately spitefully, the spines of my record collection. As I sat pulling out every single LP trying to find Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass to antagonise my wife as she tried to sleep after a long day at work and watching several of the sleeves just fall apart I decided it was time to act.So I immediately six weeks later bought a second hand scratching post with a cat head on top and paws hanging off the sides at a charity shop for 50p. The cat, ever sporadic in its visits at that point, walked in, smashed it off its base and began violently windmilling on it in a corner whilst glancing over its shoulder at me. The little felt paws, filled with rattley shot, flailed in distress deafeningly and the little felt head regarded me with a sad violated expression.I decided to buy one of these as it was silent and didn't have a face.The first one lasted a surprising number of years despite the terrifying talons of a cat so full of a fundamentally inexplicable anger considering he stopped sleeping in a bin seven years ago and now generally sleeps in the underbed pull out draw thing from Ikea that my wife insisted on buying and giving her infestations if I'm a bit lax on the flea treatment. This speaks greatly to its robustness considering it's been windmilled about the house frequently with great rage by the cat. It also has survived me tripping over it hundreds of times due to the cat's inherent villainy causing him to quietly drag it into the middle of the bedroom doorway in the dark every night without fail.The little ball on top does get played with from time to time but not too often, mainly when it's time to tighten it up because he's been windmilling it anticlockwise and I am dumb enough to usually only notice and remember to do that when the cat's currently attached. Sometimes then he gets distracted going for my hand and gets the ball. The post does benefit from a clockwise twist every so often as, like pretty much every other, it'll start to unscrew unless you feel an urge to get industrial and put some loctite on the threads.Size-wise it seems to easily cope with a 5kg of lean muscle cat that has been described as "a big boy" by a vet who I am fairly sure was calling him fat right up until the cat got annoyed and demonstrated the difference. The weight's pretty good and it reliably stays on the floor so your cat cannot throw it at you, unlike some other toys.I can't really fault it to be honest, it just keeps going. It took years for an angry formally... well... mostly... well... depending on his mood-sometimes no longer feral cat to shred through to the cardboard. He uses it frequently, both for scratching and as a booby trap, and this seems to make him happy... or at least less angry... which is basically the definition of happy in cats I think.His claws, in combination with a carboard scratching bed, are nowadays by and large kept away from my items of slightly higher value and that's about all I can ask.Oh... and when I replaced it... he actually clung to it. For a couple of days. It was... weird. This is a cat I have recently staggered outside to find involved in a stalemate tug of war with a squirrel with his elderly cat mouth clamped around the squirrel's tail like a giant moustache. That required me prodding him until his opponent was released to storm off up a tree to count its blessings that my cat doesn't have quite as many teeth as he should. Yet owning this thing actually brought him some kind of deep joy... I assume because he's convinced one of these days he'll trip me juuuust right.

It's a bit smaller than I'd imagined . Idk probably go the size up tbh

Love this item I ordered two my cats love it

I bought this based on reviews and don't get me wrong my 12 week old ragdoll kitten absolutely loves this however there are issues:It frays everywhere - there are bits of brown from the base all over my carpet.The ball has been destroyed in 3 weeks with long threads hanging off itIt tips over - at 12 weeks it was fine but she is now 14 and just that extra bit of growing she has done has made it unsteady for her.It is good for the price but I will be investing in a sturdier more expensive post. They do say "buy cheap - buy twice"

Easy to put together and a great height. Cat girls love launching at it and going nuts. It’s survived a year now, still going strong.