Wall Mounted Cat Climbing Pole - Sisal

Took a couple of weeks and bribing with treats but both cats are now using the pole.

The posts being wider than most of their trees was a learning curve for both of them, but after a week they became pros. They use it daily for their play 💖

Our cats love the cat climbing pole. They really like a tree-like pole to climb up. In hindsight, I probably should have ordered the version without the leaf shelves because they like to grab on and climb up and we have found the leaf shelves are just in the way where they have to maneuver around the shelves where we bought the three tier which is no problem for them to just grip and climb. I will say during installation we ran into an issue where we did not have a reliable tool to find the stud widths. We tried a magnetic tool and the usual tools that beep with a LCD screen. Both were too inaccurate for this installation where the two screws for the anchor require a level of accuracy. I finally found a tool that was very accurate where it lights up with blocks to show you the exact location and width of the stud where our studs were 5 blocks wide. I only knew this existed when I ran into the problem we had where one of my screws skidded off the sided of the stud and I did not realized it and the friction resulted in a burning smell which freaked us out if we had spared a fire in our wall. I only found this tool after we were freaked out any my g/f had a panick attack where I watched multiple youtube videos from this company where one video was a guy showing how to do custom layouts where he had a tool that had the lit up blocks. So, I was like WHOA...I NEED THAT. Once I got that, then setting up everything was easy. We used this climbing pole as the starter for them to climb to get onto the other shelves and bed we bought as shown in the picture. I will say though that the other issue we encountered as we tried to do our due diligence to plan before we buy was with the assumption each stud was 16 inches apart. Unfortunately, with inaccurate stud finding tools, we did not find out until we got this awesome stud finding tool that her studs were not 16 inches apart. So, we could not use the 18inch shelf and hammock bed we bought because those assumed 16 inch studs. So, now those are just sitting in the closet since we cannot use them. :(

but in any event, we love this climbing pool, but please make sure you get the stud finding tool that had the lit up blocks so you have an accurate assessment of your stud locations and distance they are apart. Lesson learned that I hope saves others what we ran into unfortunately where we cannot use two pieces we bought.

Every cat likes to get to the top and perch for awhile. That would be after scratching all the way to the top. They love to scratch this.

Really wonderful products!

For the climbing pole specifically I did not realize that getting the shelves would mean all the shelves, and you have to choose at purchase if you want the shelves or just connectors, customer service was great! I did end up sticking with all shelves, even tho that means some traversing of the tv! But they like the perches and it does seem to make going down easier, as I have one who is just not as agile and confident on the way down, but loves going up.

Beautiful and finished looking for a main room in my home. We’re not done, and are working up to adding a bridge and a few other components as finances allow, but very happy with everything we’ve purchased so far. We are very handy and could have built plenty of this on our own and did make the main tree and a few shelves), but with the ease of installation, and the look and design of the brackets especially, this is totally worth it. One person installed 5 shelves and the climbing pole in under two hours even with plenty of waffling over spacing and routing.

We have two 9 year old rescue kitties that love to climb & do vertical scratching (i.e. the couch). We bought the 4 tier with 2 leaf shelves. I like that the mounting is on one side so you can center it, but the one sided mount is also a problem. As other reviews have mentioned, this moves when they use it. My cats do not like that so they won’t use it. (We have another that is a different brand and much more sturdy that they used all the time before we took it down.) we ended up putting an L bracket under a shelf and securing it to the wall. It makes it much more stable. The rope unravels very easily, too. For the cost, I was very disappointed in the product. We have the shelves (that we love), so expectations were high. Overall, I’d look elsewhere for something more sturdy.