Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me start by saying my wife and i wanted this to work out SO bad for our cats. That being said, this thing was a disaster on so many levels i couldn't even understand what the designer/producer was thinking. I mean, it was a nightmare on a level where i actually believed that these people thought everyone was enough of a sucker that they could just do this with no regard or consequence, and i guess in a way, they were right. The first thing i noticed, was MOST of the locations THEY had screwed were splitting. The wood was actually splitting so bad it was separating. It was really frustrating, but i figured some wood glue and reinforcing the framework would actually deal with that so i could get by on that major safety problem for my pets. So, i just continued to attempt to assemble it after looking over all the parts. For the record, this wood is NOT good either, its light, and extremely poor quality. The next thing i noticed during the beginning stages of assembly was that the plastic attachments between the large pieces were flimsy and 'bowed' potentially snapping themselves off. Which, thought nerve racking could've been over looked. However, then i tried the next two pieces, then the next, then the last. None of the wood, or the plastic pieces lined up for assembly. I tried multiple combinations, and variations and nothing worked. They just did NOT meet up. I kept trying, because i really wanted this for my indoor cats, so they could enjoy the outdoors and the smells with my wife and I. At this point i started thinking to myself 'dude, this was 600 dollars, and you are basically just working with their low quality wood.' The proverbial final straw, that actually made me incredibly sad because i am a completionist, and i could see my boys inside watching with excitement as if they knew what it was (yes this was all in my head lol) and were finally gonna get to play outside, was when i tried to get the pieces, all of them, together, and the lugs and holes didn't line up in any variation by more then half an inch. HALF A FREAKING INCH. That is not a mistake when its every combination, that is carelessness. I finally just gave in. The boxes they were delivered in (2 of 2) were so mangled and dilapidated that i spent more time trying to pack the items for return then i did trying to assemble this abomination. The saddest part (again in my head) was feeling my cats eyes on the back of my head as i packed away what could've been their freedom. This was such a great disappointment probably because i wanted it to work so much.