Our cats love this tree.....we have a seventeen year old cat who can use it because of it's design.One of our young cats can now scale all the way to the top in less thn a minute. The hanging "basket" they do not use and we have replaced it with a pad from the old cat tree which was leaning badly from use. All in all our cats have given it their seal of approval. It does need quite a bit of room but is well worth the price.