Kalven Cat Scratching Posts

Advantages: Sturdy, well built and the cats love it - saves the furniture
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

...your scratching post? Well Kalven can offer you a solution with their wide range of cat furniture to suit almost any feline household. I doubt I am the only person to worry when buying a cat about how to keep my furniture in good condition without them being tempted to use my chairs as a scratching post. However I am pleased to say that I appear to have found a great solution to that problem in the form of a Kalven cat scratching post. Each one ...
...tell the good people at Kalven what colours will match your furnishings and they will do their best to find a suitable match. The climbers are well made, very sturdy (and heavy) and each has poles is wrapped with sisal cord providing a great surface on which to exercise claws. They have a wide choice of designs some with beds (circular or oval), platforms or tunnels or a combination of all three and they come in a range of heights to suit your needs. ... Read review

Advantages: draws the cats to it like moths to light, really durable, easy to construct
Disadvantages: expensive and only available direct from manufacturer (as far as I'm aware)

...of different posts available from Kalven we opted for Model 6, the 5 step scratching post in baby blue as the colouring matched that of our spare bedroom, the room where the cats like to sleep and because its size meant that they could both play without being on top of each other resulting in a huge furball fight. Standing just over a metre off the ground at its highest point the scratching post consists of 5 poles all of varying height that screw ...
...pole is a square platform that the cats love to claw their way up to, swing off or when feeling lazy curl up and sleep on. The base and platforms are wooden but coated in a hard wearing felt like material that is very much scratch resistant. It is thick enough for the cats to get their claws into making it very easy for them to climb while the actual poles are made from a toughened plastic coated in what seems to me to be a thick twine like material ... Read review