KONG Naturals Cat Scratcher

I heard a loud banging noise. My 10 year old cat got his head stuck in the hole while trying to get the toy. He frantically ran around several rooms with the entire scratcher attached to his head until I came and rescued him and was able to pry it off of his head. He is a large cat - 18-20 pounds and gets very excited about new toys.

I bought this hoping the angle would appeal to my cat, who loves to scratch but doesn't seem to know what to do with scratchers. I've tried tall ones, flat ones, round ones, cardboard ones, rope ones, and now this one. On the plus side, it comes with a bag of catnip to entice cats into using it. Unfortunately, all it has enticed my cat to do is lean on it and lick the spot where the catnip once was. -1 star because it didn't come with built-in functionality to make my cat smart.

I originally thought this was gonna be a waste of money. But it was actually my new cats favorite item for the first few days. After about 2 weeks, she only occasionally plays with it. The foil ball inside, had came off. I tried flipping the scratch cardboard over and refresh with more catnip, and no interest. I even cleaned the cat nip off to make it like new. No interest. But when I put a toy mouse inside the hole, she tries to get into box and play.

I've been buying this for my cat (Mocha) for literally her entire life, she'll be 9 in May :) she LOVES this scratcher like no other. She'll sleep on it too. I love that you can flip it over once the top gets too shredded, which is nice because she goes ham on this thing. I mean for like 20 minutes at a time just tearing it up. Bonus points if your cat is like mine and likes to bat around the cardboard pieces before you vacuum them up. She takes them to bed with her like they're her babies or something. I don't know what's going on in her little walnut brain, but she's having a great time. You go, girl.

My sister and I love our scratchers they are awesome and the catnip makes us run and play like we are young again.

Pro: my 3 cats enjoy it consistently Con: Moves easily / cats have flipped it over, even on carpet. Hanging toy on the inside is not durable, my cats aren’t supercats and they ripped it out day 2. Solutions: use a more durable cord/string for the hangingtoy. Make the single, double, and ramp version 15-25% larger. Increased size and weight would help stability quite a bit / hang two toys inside (ramp version) / increase surface area for scratching which increases durability. I accept PayPal for 1% of profits from this updated product idea.

I have several scratchers and this is the one they love the best because of the incline. They really haven't played with the toy inside the base and I worried at first if the cat's head would get stuck in the hole (it hasn't). Since the scratchers, wear out, I plan to buy another one of these as the cats have been sharpening their claws on the carpet on the stairs. I do wish it was a little taller / longer as my cats are long cats.

My cats have recently decided they like the skinny single scratchers better than the double ones, so they didn't waste any time using this one. This is a basic flat model that works for my kitties. Good price too.

My cats loves these cat scratcher. It also cuts down on them scratching my furniture!!!

I ordered what I thought was the angle box scratcher and received the scratcher surface only that is the same as the refills. This item picture is deceptive.