Bought this as a test piece to see if it would work for us and if the cat will destroy it. We ended up buying the whole couch (this is just a modular piece of the whole thing and it fits without issues). My cat did attempt to scratch it, but as long as I keep her nails trimmed she wasn’t able to do too much damage. Only some threads got pulled out and the threads are easily trimmed down with scissors when that happens, so they don’t get pulled out further and and visually not visible.
This ottoman has storage just like the rest of the couch and we love it.