Overview

Why we love it: 

SmartCat has the best-looking, most durable, post scratcher of the ones we researched and tested. At 32.5 inches, it's tall enough for your cat to stretch out comfortably.  Its solid-wood base is sturdy, so it stays upright even during vigorous scratching or leaping, and its woven-sisal scratching surface is a natural fiber that shreds cleanly (unlike carpet) and won't become prickly over time (unlike sisal rope, also common among scratchers)

On top of that, woven sisal is extremely durable: We let 20 cats abuse it for a week and a half, and it had no visible marks. On Amazon, where it currently has a rating of 4.6 stars (out of five) across more than 7,000 ratings, reviewers praise its durability: “Still going strong five years later,” writes one owner.

Durable, Full-Stretch Post