pets and christmas trees

its weird how everybody has to deal with animals playing with their christmas trees like my cats all 4 of them climbed it at once when our dog was chasing them inside the house then our dog jumped on our tree and the tree fell over. so our tree was ruined and one of our cants got a broken leg because of that and it wan not worth having to pay 100 dollars to fix her leg.

My cat who is now 8 years old used to climb my Christmas tree when he was a kitten. I have a new and even bigger one now but I do miss my old tree. It has a lot of memories. Like for example the bent branch where my little or should I say not so little kitten though he could sit but the branch couldn't handle his weight. And then there's the ornaments I used to and still sometimes even now had to rehang because they make such great cat toys. I think most cats think a Christmas tree is one giant toy put up especially for them.

ONe year I had to go out of town and my friend kept my cat at her house for me. She put up a real tree, which fascinated my cat (I had only had fake trees up to that point). Unfortunatly, since her cat had never been overly fascinated by the christmas tree (being an indoor/outdoor cat, it wasn'ta big deal in her eyes), my friend did not secure the tree well enough to withstand a 10 pound cat attempting to climb it. Thankfully, she unplugged the tree before she went to bed, so there was just a little water and a couple broken orniments from my cat's shenanigans.

Lol. Our newest addition to the family (Got her, September) a kitten who're nearing adulthood now LOVES the tree so much she won't stay away from it We've never used ALOT of tinsel and always kept it higher up on the treet to begin with, so them eating it and hurting themselves that way hasn't been a problem...but the little kitten, who I've nicknamed; The Ninja, keeps climbing the tree, plucking ornaments off and playing with them..etc. My dog likes to sleep under the tree with the Ninja, lol. Mom's cat, Ozzie doesn't care one way or another about the tree. And my cat, Maxer, would probably sleep under it if he wasn't so scaredy that someone might ambush him there while he sleeps (his paranoia is warranted, when we were on the farm we had lots more cats and they all picked on him, minus his brother). I dunno...animals plus christmas always make things interesting, don't they?

yes catz are climbers..i have a golden retriver and wild cats around the yard ...so i see them running all the time and climbing all sorts of things ... Regards Harry