Kitties and Christmas trees!

[zookeeper]

Cam does nto really bother with the real tree, he likes to hide under it and drink the water and play with the bows on the gifts but he does nto touch the tree or ornaments. We have a small fake tree that we use to decorate the rec room in the basement and Cam goes nuts on it. He swats of decorations, eats the branches you name it. We are still finding mini-bulbs from last Christmas hding around the basement We will continue to put up this tree, though as I have come to think of it as Cam's tree. It's a bit battered but I prefer that he abuses this tree than the real one with all the really beautiful ornaments.

[Miss Meow]

T&Ps Mom and SAS, cute pictures!

We have a real tree (a small spruce in a pot) so I hope it's prickly enough to minimise the damage. Then again, I'm sure by day two of having it decorated I'll be pulling my hair out

[krazyaboutkatz]

I haven't even tried to put up a tree since I've had my cats. Now that I have Sunny, he's half aby, there's no way that I'm going to get a tree. Storm likes to eat plants so I think he'd also try to eat a tree. I just hang wreaths up high so my 3 cats can't reach them.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

I found another picture of Tubby with a Christmas tree - that is still standing.

I've got this marked as Tubby's second Christmas, so he's not quite two years old here. He's sitting so nice looking at the tree, but you can see his eyes are quite big and I'm sure I had to shoo him away after I took this picture.

This was at my Mom's house, and it must have been time for all the relatives to visit because we never had a pile of presents under the tree like that just for us.

[BigCharles]

People don't think that this is true, but it was one of my introductions to cats.

My buddy, Thundering Bull, had two cats (this was years back as he has five now) and was frustrated by them always knocking over the tree.

He put down a wooden plank and got three springs. He attached one spring between each leg of the tree stand and the plank. He then screwed the plank to the floor ant put up the tree. Problems solved - - - or so he thought.

I come into the room to find both cats in the tree. Cat number one was right at the top batting at the Angel and cat number two was half way up.

When cat number two got 3/4 of the way up the tree swayed to one side. It got to about a 45 degree angle and cat number two let go and dropped to the floor. - - - Then the springs took over.

Cat number one got launched. Not all that far realy, but watching that poor cat sailing backward through the air with the Angel in hot pusuit way too much! I broke out laughing.

They gave up trying to climb the tree after that and just went to attacking the balls attached to the low branches.

[RICHARD]

tilting trees, tinsel turds, decorated derrieres, wrecked wrapping,
batted balls, accelerating angels.......

i guess being a guy makes the 'adventures of a tree thrashing cat'
more entertaining...A few years back i watched (with a certain amount of sick glee) two cats terrorize the tree and their mom.

mom had the idea that the tree would be a GOOD THING to do for xmas. ( i knew better....my bro in law once had to move a tree because the dog jumped on the table, ate a whole ham and then proceeded to puke it up behind the Xmas tree......but i digress..)

It came down to me having to let her in to the door first so she wouldn't see me laughing at the destruction her cats had wrought. i kept score of the balls knocked off the tree, timed the world record sprints as they ran from the tipping tree......enjoyed the look on their sweet faces as she walked in on them batting the ornaments to and fro..watching them march from under the tree with tinsel hanging from their fur...

this year my only problem is trying to figure out if it's gonna be a four or five foot tree!