Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It arrived yesterday. Loved it at first. Me and the cat. the cat liked it right away, scratching the post, sitting on the podium, playing with the spring toy, and the ball in the base. She was really getting into playing with the ball inside the base. She's totally distracted having a great time till she starts yowling. She's stuck - can't pull her leg out of the hole. There's a metal clamp inside the circular base that the bottom screws up into, and she got her claw stuck on it (in the gap between the wood and the metal). It took about 15 crazy stressful minutes of 2 of us with a flashlight and screwdriver to get her unstuck. I had to reach in through the top hole with a screwdriver and get it under her claw and push it away from her, to get it out from under the clamp. Pretty odd design flaw. So to prevent this from happening again, I cut a piece of hard flexible plastic - one of those cheap flexible plastic cutting boards - into a circle just a little smaller than the base, rolled it up pushed it in through one of the side holes and then unrolled it inside so it lies flat and covers the whole bottom. Then i squirted a little glue in under it through each of the 4 holes just to be extra careful. Other than that it looks good - the cat liked it right away, scratching the post, sitting on the podium, playing with the spring to, and the ball of course. Oh yeah, It comes with 2 balls. I dropped 1 on my linoleum kitchen floor from about waist height and it broke in half. Literally. So other than the 15 minutes of a screaming hissing crazy stressed out half-wild bengal cat, so far so good. Fortunately I had a black cloth bag to put over her head during the extraction process. She's a little wild anyway, so did not take kindly to this experience. I'll let you know if she ever goes near it again.