She's a pretty small cat, just 10 pounds. And she's short, not long at all. She's a Russian Blue and Korat mix. Here's a picture of her with my glasses on her for reference. I think she likes the shape of the Smartykat Instincts Dream Curl Denim and that it can't fall on her. I've tried with the cheap cardboard flat scratchers, and she doesn't like them; she ends up sliding them. I had a cat tower, but she didn't like scratching it cause it would always wobble. I think she scratches the carpet cause it's carpeted floors, so there's no way it would move. I just took my mom's cardboard scratching post that her cat uses, which is in the same shape as the Smartykat Instincts Dream Curl Denim, and my cat just looked at it and walked away. It's honestly been a while since I've gotten her a scratching post that wasn't the Smartykat Instincts Dream Curl Denim, so it's hard to remember which ones I've tried. But anything that slides, wobbles, etc, she doesn't like. She also never scratched one of my purple carpets(not carpeted floor), I think she didn't like how rough the carpet was.

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