Cat scratching post material

Sadly, it's easy to find cat scratching posts that are made of less than ideal materials. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, however, cats can be trained to claw just about anything, but some targets are not as suitable as others.

Natural materials such as the white cedar Natural Scratch is made of work best. The reason is straightforward: These are the materials cats are programmed to claw in the wild.

Once the cat is clawing a post, certain materials look much better than others, too. With Natural Scratch, cats whittle the post down and, from a distance, it almost looks like a beaver has chewed on it. This is part of the fun of the Natural Scratch.