pet connection

Wait!! Before you buy your next piece of furniture, you may want to coordinate it with your cat’s new scratching post.

What?

Yes, the Whisker Studio Sky Climber is a statement piece of furniture. You know how interior designers tell you to decorate around a special painting? Well, the same goes for this stunning piece of art. Cat tower art, that is.

Usually cat towers are beefed up scratching posts, and it is hard to justify the $100-$200 they sell for. I mean, where do you plan to put an ugly gigantic scratching post tower? Next to your couch? Hide it in a corner?

Whisker Studio has a very savvy answer. Then turned a cat scratching tower into a  fine piece of  furniture. You can customize the wood to match your desk or side table. The curved edges give it a elegant feel and the perches are set apart nicely to offer mobility between levels.

Your guests will visit your home and gravitate towards this beautiful tower. They will compliment you on your eye for design in choosing such a statement piece. They will ask quietly, How much was it? $399, but normal (ugly) cat trees sell for almost as much.

Here is a video of my son Nico and many of our cats as they check out the cherry wood tree.

P.S. We did put it together following the directions, even though we questioned if the sisal mats should face outwards or not.

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Whisker Studio, where you can purchase the Sky Climber, describes this beauty:

Cats love to climb – maybe because they also love looking down on everyone and everything once they reach the top. And they love our six-foot-tall Sky Climber because they can do their second-favorite thing every step of the way – scratching.

Two vertical scratchers (each perfectly located for scratching just above a platform) have tough, natural sisal mats a cat can really dig his claws into – much more fun, and much more durable, than plain old carpet. We put that matting in place to stay in place, by creating an inlaid recess to keep it flush with the surfaces (no exposed edges to fray or unravel), then gluing in every square millimeter with a strong, nontoxic adhesive.

Its 18″ x 23″ footprint packs maximum climbing fun into minimum floor space.  With its flowing, organic curves, real, furniture-grade, birch construction (never particleboard!) and selection of Natural Cherry stain, Natural Walnut stain or Espresso paint water-based, nontoxic, VOC-free hand-finishes, the Sky Climber’s a piece of furniture you’d enjoy in your home even without a cat to climb on it.

Ideal for homes with several cats (or one cat with an extra share of friskiness and curiosity). And for humans who appreciate high style.

Is it over the top? Depends on your point of view. If homes are decorated to the ‘T’ and an ugly cat tree would deter the cat owners from buying it then their cat will miss out on the view from the Sky Climber.

Your cats, the real critics, are sure to adore this: Their very own multi-loft, thoughtfully designed, fine furniture statement. Mine do. They’ve gone from the streets to a shelter to a house with AC  and a fancy-shmancy cat tree.

Meow, says the eight Basile cats.