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#1 ·
Well I was on Craigslist and stumbled upon someone who sells cat trees. I already have one, an armakat (right?) and the 3 cats love it! But I was thinking... His one has a tunnel and more scoops which they may enjoy more... Would it be worth switching? It's about $130 and I bought my current one for the same price on Amazon. I could probably sell it for $90 or so. Or maybe keep both? I'm not sure if my family would be happy with that idea haha.

My current one:
It has the rope scratcher, toys, and the faux covering. They don't use the bottom levels at all. I put it together, my cats love sleeping on top of the box. (generic photo)

The new one I'm Looking at:
Not sure what the covering is, looks good though, variety of colors, rope, all the cool things.
 
#10 ·
I personally would buy the second one if it's covered in carpet (as it appears to be). My cats don't scratch sisal but LOVE carpet. I currently have a cat tree from armarkat, one of my cat does nothing with it, the other one does lay on one of the platforms. It's a really expensive bed lol. I will only buy carpet covered ones from now on. The carpet might not last as long as sisal, not sure. my cats would not lay IN any of the tunnels (they don't lay in the little house on the armarkat either), but they would lay on the half circle things or at least the top one.
 
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#12 ·
I had a look at Petsmart last night. They had the perfect one. And it is covered in carpet. But at $159 I just don't know. So I had decided ok, let's just get that one at Petsmart and be done with it. So back I go and almost get it and think, boy that is alot of money. Who knows I may just break down and get it this weekend. Or if I was smart wait for a sale, but with my luck that one would be sold out.

I have looks at the armarkat ones and I don't think I like that material they use. I would rather pay a little more and get carpet.
 
#18 ·
Howdy.

My baby has never liked the half circle ones either but he loves the little circle hammock ones and sleeps in them all the time.

Picture below of the one I got
was about 130$ as well but this is in Aus.

I got one this one with the hoops because my friends cat adored it also.

Image
 
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#19 ·
Woah That's really intricate. I had a hammock once at the bottom of a cat tree but it wasn't like the ones there, the cats never touched it.

Sherry- that looks just like the one I was thinking about :) tell me if they like it!!

When I compare mine and the other one it seems like all mine has is a box and top perches. The other one has a box thing, tunnel, and the half circles which I thought cats like. I wish I could just return it if they don't like it -_-
 
#21 · (Edited)
Yeah that's the worse feeling V-paw, when they don't like it :<

We bought a bunch of toys for our baby (thankfully cheap) and he only has love for one in particularly.

Thankfully he adooores his cat tree though. Especially since we put it next to the bookshelf so he can trot along that to and watch everything from a high perch.

EDIT: Unfortunatley there is no way to tell whether or not they are going to like it. I wouldn't worry about it being "cool" it's just whether your cat likes those sorta things. I would look at things that he already likes to play/sleep on and try to find a tree that has similar things :)
 
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#23 ·
Hmm... Well I know my cat loves baskets, high things, boxes, she deffenatly sleeps in flat things too but maybe that's all she has. They sometimes play with the hanging toys from the trees but I wouldn't make it a priority. Of course one of them likes climbing, all like scratching. There's 3 of them but one of my cats, who is the boss won't let anyone else on the house when she is on it usually.

If they like baskets would they like half circles?
 
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