Anyone else not risking a tree due to the blasted animals?

codemonkey

We've just got ours down from the loft. Hoping CD doesn't think it's there for him to wee on. At the moment he's using the box as a pillow. Hopefully he'll leave it alone, although it might be at risk during his mental moments.

Raffles09

Yes!

We've got two cats, this is their second Xmas, last year they were 9month old kittens and it was all too much for them, the tree lasted ONE DAY, they both climbed to the top of it (5ft) completely un-decorating it as they went, smashing my favourite baubles! Soo, I left the decorations off, so it just had fairy lights and the cats climbed it daily, it was funny, they'd just hang out in the tree!

This year, 3 days so far... 1 attempted climb, 0 bauble casualties...

Own_My_Own

With an 11 month old dgs and a rescue dog (18 month old lab, had all off one month) I can honestly say no we are not having a tree.
But we have a collection of mini trees on the sideboard.

catkins

We usually have a 6ft real tree but didn't risk it last year as our dog was only 6 months old.

Yesterday we bought a 4ft one and it is on a table. Dog had a sniff at it but so far that's it

calicocat

I put the tree up around a week ago with just lights on to see how things would progress. Not much interest, so put baubles on last night and things have been ok so far. Mine is on a deep bay as the picture posted but bigger so takes up whole bay and no room for Asbo-cat to really jump up to it. She could take a swing at it from the floor, but hasn't so far, and I hope she doesn't a most things on it are glass.

I have gaffer taped the feet down just in case, so probably ruining paintwork on sill.


If I feel very lucky, I might put one up in the dining room too.

joansgirl

I don't have a problem with a Christmas tree as there's only me so I've got a tiny led one that goes on a shelf. But I have got a memory tree. It's over a metre tall, white, bare branches and has loadsa nik naks hanging off it. It's up permanently in the living room and has been up for 4 months and Bailie doesn't pay it the slightest attention. I'm the only one that knocks it over! In fact, the only thing she ever shows an interest in is paper. If it's made of paper then all bets are off as she turns it into confetti in the blink of an eye. Maybe I'm just lucky with her in this respect but she more than makes up for it with food guarding, rolling in !!!!!! and eating everything she deems edible!

tea_lover

We're not having a tree this year either. Although to be fair to the cat it's mostly because we've just redecorated the lounge and it looks too good to put a tree in! It's our first christmas with him though so wasn't sure how he'd behave. He's 8, so probably too old to be interested in climbing it or eating the lights but I didn't want to risk it.

redfragglebiker

I must admit to being worried about how our pair of mischevious moggies would react to a tree last year but we have been quite lucky. We have a fake tree which comes apaprt into two pieces so the base is pretty solid (read climable or so I thought)
Molko was fascinated by the tiny gold bells we had on ours as decorations but once I took the clappers out inside they ceased to be an issue. Loki found the mid point where the base would support her weight and promptly fell asleep wrapped around the centre pole of the tree!

Have to say not bothering with it this year however as we are away with family this Christmas so I will be putting up a few bits to feel festive but not much as I don't see the point!

lindens

Its my youngest cats first christmas. i put the (fibre optic) tree up yesterday and now we cant find the decorations! he was more interested in the box. Today i caught him chewing the branches (he is still chewing alot even though he has all his teeth). Dont want to think about what would happen if the tree had been on when he chewed fibre optics!

lee111s

lindens wrote: »

Its my youngest cats first christmas. i put the (fibre optic) tree up yesterday and now we cant find the decorations! he was more interested in the box. Today i caught him chewing the branches (he is still chewing alot even though he has all his teeth). Dont want to think about what would happen if the tree had been on when he chewed fibre optics!

Nothing at all, the light source and electricity is at the base of those trees and the light merely passes along the fibers