i'm amazed my (wild) Checkers doesn't attack Christmas trees... he happily shreds anything else First year we got him he was pretty interested in the tree, and we tried the squirt bottle trick but weren't very frequent with it. I think he was just a little in awe of it, he was still a big kitten and all. Actually I think he's so good about trees because we DIDN'T make a big deal about it, the things that we try really hard to keep him away from are of course his favorite tricks So he just got used to the tree. But he always likes to pull a couple ornaments off the bottom branches, usually the plastic icicles. At this point we just keep the glass balls higher up and the plastic icicles, cloth ornaments, etc. on the lower branches, and he does fine. By the way, anyone's cat regularly drink the tree water? He thinks its his special Christmas beverage