My cat does not like him

The scratch bar looks good and is also so far quite well processed (color it is by the way very nice and matches the white furnishings). The screw at the base, however, is too long, so that the base is not stable and the screw would scrape on the floor when the cat would use the part since. I reworked, but still: zero acceptance! The cat avoids the part, like the plague, even after I already rubbed with catnip from head to toe and familiar textiles have drum wound.
I have now given these scratch rod been 2 months a chance, but before Christmas, she flies out, if it is still not accepted by my Krallerdame. Perhaps the poor tigers are not so choosy at the shelter. I hope so, because I would not have thrown my money out the window.