Cedar Scratching Post

Does anybody use one of these? Or have tried it? I'm curious how cats react to them.

www.naturalscratch.com

I haven't used Cedar, but have used raw maple tree branches and pine boards. They like the raw wood, but I find that they sometimes get them confused with things like the legs to my oak dining table. I have ended up wrapping at least a portion of the scratch posts in sisal to give them a distinction on what is good to scratch and what isn't. I had to bitter apple my table legs to get them away from that.

Cats react naturally to it, just as they would any tree product.

Do they tend to work better than carpet or sisal? Or does it just seem to depend on the cat. I have a sisal one now, but my kitty sometimes uses furniture so I am thinking of alternatives in adddition to the sisal. I am moving in a week and I don't want my new roommate to freak out. She declaws her cats, but I REFUSE to do that to my little baby. I just could never do it. He's so sensitive to anything I do. Even if I step on his tail by mistake he seems to be so upset that I could do that to him!

They really like to scratch raw wood, but I did notice that when I wrapped part of the branch in sisal, their claws went to the sisal part of the post (I started the sisal up about 2 feet high) on a 3-1/2 foot tall post). I have another tree with part carpet and part sisal, and they tend to use the sisal part of that tree also.

So, I think their order of preference is (tested in my house of 14): 1) sisal, 2) raw wood, 3) carpet.

Oh yeah, and I have a great variety of posts and trees and they use all of them.

we had one a long time ago