Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We have 2 large rescued cats and we also foster for a local rescue. In other words, we are a VERY active house for kitties! We've had several large pieces like this for +3 years from another brand (Armarkat). They've been great but we wanted to add some more similar pieces around the house (we have to do this slowly, due to how expensive they are). The perches and scratching posts have always been very popular in our home. I figured this would be great and bought it because it was a little cheaper than our usual brand and it looked very similar. I put this together 2 days ago without problem. Even though it isn't super heavy, I recently had surgery and got my husband's help to move it because I'm not supposed to lift things. We didn't make it a foot before one of the top 3 posts that holds up one of the 3 top platforms broke about 3 inches from the bottom. Under the rope/sisal is lightweight cardboard. I wondered if it was our fault, if we had moved it in some way we hadn't realized (even though we had been ginger with it). We just unscrewed that broken post and figured we'd live with 2 perches just fine. We try a lot of stuff with the kitties and make just about anything work for us. This morning, I woke up to find the post with the lower little round house on it had also broken 3 inches from the bottom, so that post and the house was down and the cardboard again broken in half. There is no way to re-attach the cardboard or to try to fix it - you just have to remove the whole post. Has been the worst pet purchase we've made. At this rate, it will be unusable soon and I will have to throw away a piece of cat furniture for the first time, and one that we haven't even had up a week to boot! So disappointed!