95 reviews forXL Cat House with Scratching Pad Winter Edition

The house looks good & my cat loves the scratching base but the assembly is impossible because of the badly made plastic ‘screws’ that hold the house together. Badly moulded, and not fit for purpose. Makes it quite an expensive flat scratching surface.

Good size. Very fiddly to put together and it worried me that it’s held together by little plastic poppers, I was constantly checking they hadn’t come off as I was concerned my cat would swallow them! Although my cat loved this toy it only lasted a week, he very quickly ripped it to shreds so I had to throw it away. Even though it was cheap it wasn’t worth the money or the mess! Just give your cat a cardboard box!!

It’s looks lovely. My cats have loved destroying it. However plastic connectors are used to build the product and they pop out easily, which I’ve not been happy about. I’ve had to keep a close eye on my cats with this product as while they have had fun destroying it they have also loved trying to eat the plastic connectors that have fallen out easily. I’m worried they could chock on or swallow them. Would be cautious about this product.

Apart from the fact that the parts didn’t fit together properly, my cat managed to break it in no time at all. She jumped on it once, and my cat weighs about 4kg (2 years old), and the little house was beyond saving. Maybe it would be better to reinforce it yourself with thicker cardboard, or only use it for calmer cats who wouldn’t even think of jumping on or over it.

The little house was very well received and looks really nice in the living room, but after just a few hours (without my tomcats jumping around wildly), one of the "fastening buttons" had already been torn out, making the whole house unstable. I tried to fix it, but unfortunately, it doesn’t hold properly and no longer looks nice either. It tips to one side, and one of my tomcats no longer dares to go inside because it collapsed on him while he was playing. Not worth the money.

The product didn’t last 4 hours, it was a struggle to put some parts together, and once it was set up, the cats were busy trying to remove the screws. Now it’s not being used anymore.

For the price, it's okay, but it's cheaply made, and the plastic screws that were included don't fit together. It was a real hassle to put it together... Such a shame.

My cats loved it for the week it stayed up. The fasteners are not robust enough to survive the romping of a few boisterous cats.

Seems cheap, but breaks too quickly. A real shame, actually, as I wasn’t even expecting it to last long—I like swapping out toys, and I thought cardboard was a relatively eco-friendly option. If a cat jumps on the roof, the house completely collapses in on itself. Some plastic dowels pop out of the cardboard in the process. In other places, the cardboard bends so awkwardly that the house can’t be put back together afterwards.

I was looking for a pretty scratching pad. My cats liked the house and immediately claimed it. Unfortunately, I had to take it away after two days because the connecting parts are small and made of plastic. My cat kept nibbling on them and detached them from the cardboard – that’s too dangerous for me. One piece is still missing :-( The house itself is very nice, and if it gets redesigned, I would buy it again straight away.

It honestly took me longer to assemble this than it took the cats to demolish it. It looks nice, is a great idea, but not for cats like mine, they are just a pair of vandals and jumped onto to house from the top of their cat tree thus the roof totally buckled. For a well behaved sedate normal cat this would be great but for my two yobs it didn't work.