premium cat trees
Built to be bought once - jointed rubberwood, weighted bases and replaceable sisal.
3 products
cat exercise wheel
Cat Exercise Wheel & Cat Tree Combo — Solid Wood
A $150 cat tree and a $600 cat tree are not the same object with different margins on them. The cheap one is particle board wrapped in carpet, on a base too light for its height, with a post that is stapled rather than jointed. It wobbles within a month, the carpet pills, and the cat goes back to the sofa. You then buy a second one.
What the money is actually buying
Solid rubberwood, not chipboard. Timber holds a screw. Particle board strips out the first time a 6kg cat lands hard on a platform, which is why cheap trees develop a lean and never recover from it.
A base weighted for the height. Every tree here has a wide, weighted timber base sized against its own height. A 190cm tower on a narrow base is a falling hazard, and a cat that has had a tree tip once will not climb it again.
Replaceable wear surfaces. Sisal and scratch panels are consumables - they should be replaceable without replacing the furniture. Ours are. A glued-on carpet post makes the whole tree disposable.
Joinery you can see. These are finished on all sides because they sit in a living room, not against a laundry wall. That is most of the visible difference between our trees and a big-box one.
The range
The Desert Oasis is the straightforward answer for most homes at 190cm, suited to all breeds including Maine Coons. The Arch XL runs to 280cm for high ceilings and multi-cat households. The exercise wheel combo is the choice for an indoor cat with too much energy, and it does the work of two pieces of furniture. The Cactus pairs a powder-coated metal frame with timber platforms if you want something more sculptural.
On buying once
Every tree on this page is stocked in our Australian warehouse and covered by Australian Consumer Law guarantees. Assembly is flat-pack and takes about forty minutes. If you have already bought a cheap cat tree and watched it fail, this page is the argument for not doing that twice.