Kitties and Christmas trees!

[Vio&Juni]

decorated kitty backsides

LOL

[Edwina's Secretary]

When Edwina first joined us we had a natural tree and worried what she would do. Other than interest in the water, some initial curious sniffing and an occasional swat at the low hanging ornaments -- she ignored the tree. (In fact the tree did fall over once but she was no where in the room. I'm afraid my husband and I were responsible for a poor job of setting it.)

After we moved we found a fabulous artifical tree in the attic. I miss the smell of a natural tree but I don't miss the fire hazard and the needle mess! And Edwina seems to enjoy this tree more. She LOVES to sit under it and look for all the world as All Creatures describes it...the best present of all.

[wolf_Q]

LOL at these stories! Especially "tinsel butt" teeheeehee. I don't have a cat, but I have dogs that enjoy ruining the Christmas tree...errr...presents. Smokey *really* likes to unwrap presents. So much, that we've often had to wrap his presents about 10 times before christmas, and he sometimes surprises us by opening random people's gifts also! LOL. Reggie and Smokey also enjoy laying under the tree on the skirt, which often knocks all the lower ornaments off. This will be my first Christmas with Nebo...the holy terror...I'm afraid to find out what will happen!

[Cataholic]

When it was just Tex and I, there was very few problems, other than an occasional chewed ribbon. But, one year, we had a kitten in the house, so no tree, then, more cats, and someone was always a kitten at some point.

Now, I just use boughs, and decorate with them. Truthfully, I don't love the mess, ruining the walls by bringing a tree in, clean up...ect. Plus, I get so sad seeing all the dead Christmas trees the first week in January...

[Former User]

Originally posted by Barbara


in Germany you put it up the 24th of December and you keep it until January 6th (or even longer).
Most people have the Nativity scene there too and you add the camels and the Holy Kings the 6th of January. From the beginning of December you have a wreath with 4 candles, for each week until Christmas.

We have this in Finland too. We get the x-mas tree inside at the morning of 24th and get rid of it (to put it not so nicely) at the 6th of January.

[Pam]

No Christmas trees any more for us. Trevor was fine with our trees even when he was a little kitten. He'd just go underneath and lay there looking so darn cute! Andy came along and he is a terror when there is a tree in the house. He can't leave the ornaments alone and even tugs on the strings of lights. The first year or two with him I really tried and I would just move the ornaments higher and higher until finally, usually around New Year's Eve, only the top half was decorated. The last couple of years I threw in the towel and I have been using a small table top fiber optic tree and I string a lighted garland over the archway to my dining room and put a couple of ornaments on it. Andy has knocked down the little tree a couple of times but there's nothing to clean up and no water spilled. I did find fiber optic 'treasures' while scooping his box. Now how in the world could that have tasted good.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Here's my little present 16 years ago. He batted at some of the lower hanging ornaments, but never really bothered with the tree. He's such a good boy, and always has been. Peanut doesn't bother them either. I think she's more afraid of having something fall on her.



Amazing that he fit in that box. He'd completely crush it these days.

[BastetsMum]

I have an abysinnian .... need I say more

[Barbara]

Hey Bastetsmum, last year I was on a cat show and the judge there wanted to show people how different the character of kittens could be: There was a cute black British Short hair: he could hang it over his arm like a towel -the kitten relaxed completely. Then there was a 12 week old Aby...... You can imagine -he had a feather toy and little Aby went crazy.
I think for them a natural tree with some feather ornaments would be the purrfect Christmas gift.

[sasvermont]

He could not contain himself. That ornament didn't last long. Thank goodness it was made of cardboard.

[sasvermont]

I just went into Google and did a search for "cat in Christmas tree" and look which photo popped up first!

[Pam]

I am probably rushing the season, since it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but I just came across this and it had me laughing out loud.

'Twas da night before Christmas
And all thru da house.
Not a creetchur was stirrin',
Not even dat mouse!
Mommy and Daddy was safe in deir bed
But I couldn't get da mousie outta my head!
So I went to da kitchen and looked all around,
And you wouldn't believe what I did found!

Dere on da table dere was a great site-
A glass of milk had been left in the night!
So I got up on da table and dranked it all gone
And ate half a cookie and layed down and yawned

When outside da house, their arose such a racket,
I jumped on da floor, gettin ready to attack it!
I got real low, so da monsters wouldn't see me
And puffed out my fur and hid under da tree

When what, to my big green eyes did appear,
But a great big red guy with a fuzzy white beard!
The beard swayed around and enticed me a bit
So I wiggled my butt and jumped upon on it!

The red guy was surprised and felled on da tree
"Uh-oh!" I thought. Mom and Dad will blame me!
So I ran up da stairs and I got out of site
And I didn't go down for da rest of da night.

In da morning I slowly approached Mom and Dad.
You shoulda seen da big mess that they had!
But when they seed me they just smiled and sighed.
So I head-butted Momma and purred by Dad's side.

And dis next part still bring tears to my eyes.
But Momma and Daddy had a surprise:
Da big red guy with da fuzzy white beard
Had left me a gift for bein' good all year

That poem is very special Pam !!! It comes right out a cat's heart . It is funny , but also touching ... . Thanks !

About a tree ... . With Sydney , who died this summer , there was no problem at all . He never touched the tree nor the ornaments . The only "bad" thing he did , was that he loved to mess up the tree-skirt (a quilt I got as a present from our American friends , Mr. & Mrs. Kruse) .
I fear that we will definitely have a problem this year . Maya will be okay , I think . But little Inka cannot resist anything that is hanging or standing close enough for her to reach ... . Oh my , I cannot stand not to have tree ; we had this the year we moved into our new house (move was on Dec. 16 , 2000) ; Christmas is not the same without a decorated Christmas tree ...

[neko1]

Abyssinians and Christmas trees definately don't go together!!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

That's a great poem, Pam! It's so typical of a cat, but it was sweet when they just sighed so he head butted momma and purred by dad's side.

Cute.