Was it last year someone posted a series of photos of cats climbing/destroying a Christmas Tree? I would love to show this to DD whose kittens are doing the same.
Does anyone have a link - putting Cats and Christmas Tree into the archives gave Christmas Tree quilts and Cheryl!
Was it this one?
Years ago, my cats would climb the Christmas tree and knock it over. After several days of putting it back up and cleaning up broken ornaments, I finally took it down and didn't bother with putting one up for a couple of years. I don't put up a tree here since I'm not home on Christmas day. Mom and I put one up at their house and that's where I spend Christmas. I can only imagine the damage Amber, the Monkey dog, could do to a tree...it isn't something I'd want to experience!
Hugs, Tigg
Our tree is always tied by guy lines to the baseboards now.... after one year when it was knocked over twice by exploring cats. Needless to say we don't have any breakable ornaments left!
Allison
Yes that it - thanks. Now sent on to DD whose kittens are doing the same!
Did you get my response to your Quillow Book question, or was that one which went astray.
No - got the post and answered too. Maybe my answer went astray. I will wait until after the Xmas mail madness to order. Many thanks.
I used to have a big 7' tree covered in beautiful gold and white decorations and 500 lights. (note the use of the past tense)
Enness used to live under it and get VERY upset when I took it down each year. But at night she would roll over on her back and play tag with the lower ornaments. I would hear them get swatted onto the polished wood floor and roll around. As the lower ornaments got "removed" she would have to try to get to the higher ones. Now the cats in the pictures at the link look like pretty agile climbers. But Enness (aka Poddy) weighs over 20lbs and is old and a bit stiff in the joints.
Ergo - I gave my tree and ornaments away to protect Poddy from herself (and her delusions that she could still climb trees!)
I loved it!! Pami
I would but the tree he loves most is my 10 year longed for "David Jones Tree". In case anyone doesn't know what I mean, it is a HUGE tree about 9 feet tall and huge around. Full and lush with built in sparkly lights and just gorgeous. It cost me (well, allright - DH) a packet and we purchased one special decoration for each of us (about $10 each) and 36 other coloured special balls. I adore it and no-one is allowed near it except me. It looks ......perfect.
I have another tree in the study window which is quite smaller, has all the pretty sparkly built in lights but doesn't have the same niceness. This is everyone elses tree. The one they can put tinsel on (I hate tinsel with a passion). The one the kids made ornaments go on. I love it as well, its justnot the David Jones Tree.
Naturally the cats ignore everyone elses tree and go for mine. Can't help good taste!
There are lots of ways to keep pets from the Christmas tree.
My brother has two eye bolts, one in a corner and one on the ceiling, that he wires his tree to once it is in the stand. His has never been knocked down in spite of two retrievers, a border collie, a greyhound, and three cats in his house.
An aunt of mine used a folding botttomless play pen (4 soft walls hinged together with one corner free to open) to surround her tree for years. It kept out the babies and her spaniels. Best of all no one could get close enough to the tree for the tinsel to do it's little static cling onto your clothing thing. I've seen other people put the tree inside a regular playpen too.
DH and I bought a 3 foot table top tree and set it on a four foot tall pedestal. We used only non-breakable ornaments for the first few years, but we never had the cats try to climb it because there was no place they considered a good landing spot since the nearest limbs were
5 feet from the nearest jumping point. We use whatever ornies we want to now.Another person I know decided to have a flat tree to hang on her wall. She covered a tree shaped board with green velvet, wraps it with bead garland, and displays her favorite ornaments on it. She says it is quick and easy to set up since she doesn't have to re-arrange her furniture to accommodate a real tree anymore, the tree has no needles to drop on the floor, and her cats ignore it completely so her glass ornies are safe. Debra in VA See my quilts at
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