If you can place your tree between 2 windows, you can secure the tree to the windows with fishing line. We have done that in the past. Also, place plastic bags filled with kitty litter at the base of the tree. We put the tree up the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and let it sit there in the living room, until the cats get the idea of the " new growth " in the living room. Then I slowly add decorations to the tree. NO GLASS ornaments or TINSEL(sp). I have discovered cats sleeping in the tree. They wrecked a really nice prelit tree. I found in Terry's Village, a tree that the cats do not seem to bother. The first three feet of the tree is the trunk, and the upper three feet is the Christmas tree. You might want to try that model!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!