The Vesper V-Base is small, stylish, and Stella-approved When you?re a cat owner, you have to accept that there are things in your home that will be beyond your control. For instance, the arms of sofas and chairs are going to be used as scratching posts; cats will find their way to the top of furniture that you thought was not scalable; and everything will be covered in fur.
These are all things that I?ve happily lived with since I brought my calico cat, Stella, home from a shelter 11 years ago. But one thing I never invested in was furniture for her, mostly because the stuff that?s made for pets is, by and large, pretty ugly.
Scratching posts and cat trees are usually covered in sisal, beige carpet, or both?which is totally fine, but not my style at all. And my cat always seemed happy enough using a scratching pad made from corrugated cardboard (which one of my cat lady friends has dubbed ?the raft?), so I never questioned it. But then last summer, we moved from an apartment that had a big window ledge where Stella could perch and mew at birds, to another, where that was no longer an option. Moving is already stressful enough for pets, so my husband and I worried about taking that window time?kind of like TV for cats?away from her amid all of the other changes we?d be making in setting up our new home.

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Finally, we decided to look into cat trees that weren?t ugly?and that?s when we found the Vesper...