Fauna Palucco Cat Play Tower - Beige - 40x40x98cm

The Fauna Palucco Cat Play Tower is a 98 cm tower finished in knitted sisal with a rattan look — a rectangular basket on top, a curved cradle in the middle and a round bowl at the base.

Key Features

• Compact 40 x 40 cm footprint and 98 cm tall, so it suits an apartment rather than a large room
• A rectangular woven basket on top with high sides, a curved woven cradle in the middle and a round woven bowl at the bottom
• Knitted sisal over the frames gives the rattan look without the splintering that real rattan suffers under claws
• Broad cream plush platforms between the woven pieces, with a dangling pom-pom toy
• Posts are wrapped in hardwearing sisal rope — the surface a cat's claws are meant to strip on, instead of the arm of your sofa
• Delivered flat-packed with fixings and instructions. Assembly is a screwdriver job, not a workshop one

Setting It Up

• Put it where your cat already spends time — by a window, or next to whatever it has been scratching. A tree in the spare room gets ignored
• Retighten the bolts after the first fortnight and every few months after that. Almost every wobbly cat tree is a loose bolt rather than a design fault
• Three enclosed or semi-enclosed resting spots at three heights, which is useful if you have two cats that each want their own level

Good To Know

• Scratching is how a cat sheds the worn outer sheath of its claws and leaves its scent. It is not a habit you can train out, so the only real question is what it scratches
• A new tree often gets ignored for the first week. A pinch of catnip rubbed into the posts, or a familiar blanket on the top perch, usually settles it
• Woven sisal frays visibly where a cat favours it. That is the material working, not a fault
• Check the dangling toys regularly and cut them off if the cord frays. A cat that swallows a length of string needs surgery, not a wait-and-see
• Vacuum the plush with an upholstery head and spot-clean with a damp cloth. Do not soak it — the boards underneath are chipboard and swell once wet