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I've always had a tree up, until a few years ago I had live ones. The first year I had Sassy she took every single ornament off while I was at work and I flung them back on when I got home. She also pulled lights right out of the socket!:eek: Since then the cats only lay under it.;) My only other problem was Layla laying under the tree and when she stood up, this happened...:rolleyes:
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Yep, there it is. Only in my house the ornaments would get broken and I was afraid that little paws would get cut, especially while I was at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by chocolatepuppy
None of my ornaments are breakable.;) I might also add, my tree is up and I'm going to add the ornaments tonight. Last year Jake was 2- 2 1/2 months old at Christmas. I may have to edit this later.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
We have always put a tree up although ours is fake haha. My pets have never bothered much with it, EXCEPT the maltie. Holy crap, she once tugged one ornament and the entire tree came down on top of her. Picture a 7 year old shaking presents under the tree and an annoying white fluffbutt knocking the tree down the opposite way! My mom still says I had something to do with it..:rolleyes: She NEVER touched ornaments again lol. Her new thing? Peeing on the tree skirt, how lovely. :D
Ours just recently went up :)
I'm not too worried about Ellie, she's usually pretty good with the tree. It just makes me excited for Christmas!!
Merry (early ;)) Christmas, Everyone! :D:D:D
I can't imagine not having a tree! Mine has been up since the 29th of November.. Tilly and Nutmeg both like to sniff at the bottom branches, and Nutmeg likes to chew them. I sprayed all the bottom branches with some stuff called "Bitter Yuck" and now Nutmeg only chews the tree when she is trying to get attention. I just use the water bottle and squirt her, and she runs away :p
Tilly just LOVES the ceramic Santa I put under the tree for decoration.. not sure why.. she's just a weirdo!! :)
So far, so good (but Sunny will be supervised constantly). Moon and Bean don't bother it; real or fake...
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Andy and I have been putting up a fake tree since '06. We've never had a problem with the cats getting in it. They would knock off ornaments from the lower branches so now we just don't hang them there.
We seem to run a greater risk with the dogs knocking it over with their rough housing. Though Andy has secured the tree to our costumed mannequin and so far, it's never been toppled. :)
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Here in IA we have a real tree, it's really lush too. My little brother has his own full of NASCAR and Cars ornaments. The cats just leave it alone.
At home in IL we have two trees, a live one and a fake one which was given to us as a gift by a family friend who works for a company that makes fake trees. When I was younger I was always worried Niņo would pee on it but he never has even done more than just sniff the tree casually when it went up. Chester hid all last December so we don't know what he'll do with it this year.
We were bracing ourselves for a year of kitteny antics with this being Grace's first Christmas. Nope! Grace could care less. K'CEE, however, is the tree-scaler-extrodinaire. :rolleyes::D
The dogs don't bother it although Maggie Moo tried to crawl under (to retrieve a toy) and it almost toppled.
We were brave enough with a puppy! CAllie ended up eating the berries off the tree, so we removed them and the tree looks naked.
We had a tree up last year and I have 7 cats also. Granted we put up a small Charlie Brown tree (real) and very limited ornaments only hung near the trunk area, but we had one including lights. The hardest thing was keeping them from getting into the water basin. I had to use simple sugar water solution rather than any other additives which might harm the cats if they should drink it.
Here's a pix of Cami lounging under the tree.
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When Kesha was still around we always had knocked over ornaments and ripped tissue paper, now that she has passed away we haven't had any problems.
Until I started babysitting my brother's new dog, Pike. That dog LOVES chewing on the tree branches and eating the tree skirt. Little brat. :p
I tried putting up a very small fake one but Storm kept trying to eat it so that was the end of that. If I tried putting up a tree today I know that both of my girls would climb it in a minute and knock everything over.
Most years I DO NOT put up a tree. The first year with Hannah and Puff, I was at work and Rickie called me. I was scared something terrible happened, as he NEVER does that. He walked outside to get the mail, and heard a LOUD BANG. He got inside, and I dont know HOW this happened, but the brand new fake tree was in a pile on the floor. Unfixable:eek::confused::rolleyes: He called to tell me. When I got home, I couldnt believe it. It was so bad that I did not even bag it up, I just picked up the massive pile and threw it on the curb:mad:
2 years ago I put one up, this time I anchored it to the wall in 6 places, and the ceiling with thick clear fishing line. Worked like a charm, but all of the ornaments were getting broken.
Last year, NO TREE>
This year, since it will be such a sparse Christmas, I decided to put one up tonight. And, knock on wood, I *THINK* I might have just outsmarted the cats this year.
No icicles, Shatterproof ornaments, anchored EVERYWHERE. I also gave it sprays of "no bite bitter apple" and put no ornaments or anything near the bottom of the tree. No tree skirt as that is a peeing magnet AND Puff will eat it:rolleyes: We will see if it works. Hubby and I placed bets. He said it will be ruined by morning, I said by tomorrow night:p:D:rolleyes:
* FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE WELL BEING OF MY TREE *