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What Does the Fifth Post Do Under the Top Bed?
Wide spans flex without middle poles. At first they loved sharing the same cat tree, and as they grew up, they both needed their own space, and having separate trees also helps stop unnecessary fights.
Five posts hold long beds flat. There is nothing worse than buying a cat tree only to discover once it’s home that the top beds are too small for a bigger cat to fit comfortably. Many owners have a cat tree that’s connected by screwing cylinders of wood to the base and platforms of the tree, and for some of the screws washers are also provided to tighten up the tree.
Why Does Top Bed Width Decide Whether You Get 4 or 5 Posts?
Top bed size sets base width. You want a base that makes it very difficult to impossible to topple, and super sturdy and well made.
The carpet underneath the base makes it wobbly. Friendly housemates share food, play, toys, sleep in a cat tree in two baskets next to each other. The sisal only wraps part of each post, limiting full-stretch scratch zones, while an oversized five-post top bed works well since a wider heavy base is far better than a taller base.
How Do Our 5-Post and 4-Post Cat Trees Compare?
The cats like to bat at the sisal rope. Some households have to have at least four of things like window perches and scratching posts, the favorite beds and boxes, and a mountain of the preferred catnip toys.
Some senior cats are much more spry than others. A 22-pounder is always testing the limits of the cat trees, and our 83-inch five-post tower helps when older cats can’t comfortably twist or climb a height more than maybe a foot and a half. It depends on how solid they are and how much they weigh, not a lab wobble test, and they last a long time, are very sturdy and cats love their cat trees.
They also really love the trees with baskets. Renters in a very small apartment often don’t have room for a huge cat tree, and kitties love curling up in the round basket style hammocks on their cat trees because location matters, maybe more than the type of tree.
Which One Fits Your Cat and Your Room?
The kittens are sleeping on the cat tree. Flimsy cat trees wobble, wear out fast, and frustrate large or active cats, and having four corner posts under the bed helps when a cat likes to stretch and scratch on the large window sill.
They do sell larger perches for bigger cats. You look for a tower with a wide base to avoid tipping, and something that won’t wobble or fall apart in a few months. Owners want to buy a new cat tree for their girls that has sisal rope all around the poles and not that middle sisal part capped on either side by carpet.
