As other folks have said on here a some cats are not interested to scratch this at all. The material is not a scratch material. Another thought AFTER I purchased...you want your cars to stick to the scratching material on the usual scratching posts. You don't want them to teach them to scratch other material by trying to train them to scratch this. The looks of it is nice enough to have it as decor so it is not all for nothing and we will keep it as decor in a corner....