This is my first Christmas with cats, but I know they'd both love to climb right up one. I can just tell. I used to have a fake tree in the hallway of my last apartment, and Tito went nuts climbing it all the time. I finally had to get rid of it.

I'm thinking of doing an "alternative" Christmas tree this year. I'm sort of stealing my aunt's ideas. One year, she got a very small tree and nailed it into a wooden base, and then nailed the base to the ceiling. Upside down Christmas tree! It was neat to see all the ornaments hanging off it! Also, another year she got a big "bough", I guess you could call it, or limb of a pine tree, and hung it on a wall, and decorated it. Presents can go under both these alterna-trees, they're far away from kitties' reach, and they are still pretty!!