Peachfield & Co. x zeze Trophy Cat Scratch Pillar Cat Trees & Towers

Peachfield & Co. x zeze Trophy Cat Scratch Pillar Cat Trees & Towers
Plush Trophy Top · Striped Sisal Column · Vertical Stretch and Claw Care

It has a face. The top of the post is a soft yellow trophy — round cup, a looped handle on either side, two wide eyes on the front — and it sits on a column of yellow and cream striped rope rising from a round blue base. Nothing about it is trying to look like furniture. It is a first-place trophy standing 85 cm high in the corner of a room, and whatever is scratching it is the thing that won.

The column is the working part. A paper tube is wound tightly in sisal rope from the base of the trophy down to the board, and sisal is what a cat is actually after: coarse natural fibre that catches a claw and tears as the paw pulls down. Cats scratch vertically for reasons a flat pad cannot serve. The reach pulls the spine and shoulders out after sleep, and the mark gets left high on a surface where it will be found. That is the job a chair leg is doing when nothing else is offered.

At 85 cm a full-grown cat can stand on its hind legs and pull through the whole stretch rather than crouch and paw at it. The base is a padded disc and the post weighs 3.6 kg assembled, so it holds still when a cat throws itself at the top rather than sliding across the floor. Where it goes matters more than anything else. Cats scratch on waking and on the way past a threshold, so it belongs beside the bed the cat already uses or in the doorway it already walks through, not in the corner you would rather it lived in.

A red rosette hangs off the column and a spray of ribbons sits on a spring at the base, and both are there for the same reason as the catnip worked into the post: to get a cat interested in this before it commits to something of yours. Sisal frays. Over months the wrap thins where the cat works hardest, usually on one side at chest height, and that is the post earning its place rather than falling apart. What it does not do is leave the floor covered in shreds.

Key Features

• Trophy with a face: Soft yellow plush cup, two looped handles and a pair of eyes, so the post reads as an object rather than as pet equipment.
• Striped sisal column: Yellow and cream sisal wound over a paper tube — coarse natural fibre that gives claws something to hook into and drag through, and that holds up to daily work.
• Full vertical stretch: 85 cm tall, enough for an adult cat to reach up on hind legs and pull out the whole spine.
• Weighted round base: A padded blue disc and 3.6 kg of post, steady under a running jump.
• Rosette and ribbon toy: A red award ribbon on the column and a spring-mounted ribbon spray at the base, both there to keep a cat coming back.
• Catnip built in: Worked into the post to draw the cat to it in the first week, which is most of the battle with anything new.
• No mess on the floor: Sisal frays into fibre rather than breaking into crumbs, so it does not leave the debris a cardboard scratcher does.

Product Specifications

• Size: L43 × W43 × H85 cm
• Materials: Plush fabric, faux fur, polyester fibre, sisal rope, paper tube, engineered wood, catnip
• Weight: Approx. 3.6 kg
• Colour: Yellow trophy top, yellow and cream striped column, blue base
• Function: Scratching, play
• Assembly: Flat-packed, assembles at home
• Suitable for: Cats of all sizes, kittens upwards