Well that lasted all of two days!!

[Pam]

I am sorry but I too burst out laughing. That is why I no longer have a tree. With the arrival of Andy in 1996 my tree days were over. I now have a fiber optic one with no tempting ornaments but I have even caught him chewing on the fiber optic branches.

Catmandu, I love your mini-earthquake excuse. You would make a good attorney for somebody. Maybe OJ could use you now with his recent mess of troubles.

[critter crazy]

I did find it quite funny, since it is the very first time It has ever happened in all the years of owning cats!! Leave it to Autumn!! This is her first Christmas, so I guess I can excuse her this once! The tree is back up, and looks almost like it did before it hit the ground, course now it seems to have a slight flat spot!

[Catty1]

Actually, what a BF and I did long ago was get a metal screw with a loop that you put into the wall - kind of like the screws that go into the ground to hold dog chains/leashes/whatever - and used a length of poly rope to from the wall, around the tree trunk once or twice (near the middle), and tied securely back at the wall loop.

Probably necessary for some artificial trees as well!

OOPS - sorry, Kuhio98 - you mentioned this already!