My cat likes this a lot...I refer to it as his stripper pole. That being said...It was crazy hard to attach to the wall. Like, harder than any of the furniture I've put together that has a million pieces. The metal brackets aren't long enough (and I tried angling them both ways) to reach the mounting holes on the top and bottom of the pole. I had to bend the metal brackets to make them reach, then the gray "caps" that hold the pole on fit crookedly. If the metal brackets were about an inch longer it would help a lot. Almost returned it but made it work, just hope it doesn't rip out of my wall and leave huge holes! 
UPDATE: After two weeks my 1 year old cat managed to pull this right out of the wall (I had it mounted with the brackets AND on a stud) and it fell on top of him. Poor thing won't go anywhere near it now. I guess I'll have to trash it and try to fill the holes in my wall. Updating my rating to one star.