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Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:34 pm  |
| Any ideas on how to keep the cat out of the tree?...aside from decorating it with barbed wire??? |
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Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:36 pm |
Sorry, no good ideas here... I can't keep the bunny out of mine either, lol!
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Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:22 pm |
I can't keep my cat out but I use the shatterproof (read plastic) ornaments on the bottom half. He doesn't climb it he just likes to knock the dangly ones down. The shatterproof ones also rock for toddlers who like to help out/touch everything.  |
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Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:25 am |
Luckily my kitties just like to sleep under the tree, rather than try to climb it. I am worried about my new kitty, though, who has never experienced the climbing temptations of a xmas tree. He's a lot younger than the other ones, too, and more apt to be a troublemaker.
But, yeah, I have no advice. Yell at them in vain. Resistance is futile. |
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Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:24 am |
| No idea but love the picture of the bunny sleeping under the tree waiting for santa!! |
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Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:53 pm |
I can help. I have 5 cats and I used to have the same problem. What I do is I take a full size black or dark green towel and I loosely wrap it around the bottom layer of branches close to the middle of the tree. Depending on how big your tree is you might want to try 2 towels. When cats climb the tree they climb up the middle. If the towel blocks there view from below and their solid foot hold they don't try to climb the tree.
If you ever noticed, the cat won't try to climb the outer branches, only the inner. The dark towel blends with the color of the tree so you can't tell it's there. |
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Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:42 pm |
That bunny is so cute!!!
Ok so I've tried the towel idea. I also strung some evergreen garland in the branches on the lowest level. The first thing he did was crawl under the tree, as normal, sniffed and pawed at it for a few seconds and that was it!! He hasn't even slept under the tree like he usually does. Nothing. No interest in the tree what so ever!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you SO much!! |
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Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:25 am |
Crap!!
I just noticed this morning there is a spot where he definatley tried to climb in.
This is a large, fat cat we are talking about. This cat needs a rest stop just crossing the room. Where is he getting the energy to climb trees??????? |
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Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:43 am |
| I love this thread. We have 2 male cats who act like little boys--one minute they are affectionate and curled up with each other, the next they are ripping into each other in a good-natured fight. The x-mas tree is a perfect spot to stake an ambush. We yell and scold, and they settle down for an hour, then it begins again. At least they don't try to climb it anymore. |
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Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:32 am |
| I'd be probably happy if they'd try to climb the tree but my cats pee on it, unfortunately... |
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Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:12 pm |
| world~of~mirth wrote: |
| I can't keep my cat out but I use the shatterproof (read plastic) ornaments on the bottom half. He doesn't climb it he just likes to knock the dangly ones down. The shatterproof ones also rock for toddlers who like to help out/touch everything. |
Hehehe, this thread cracks me up. This is my first year living with my boyfriend and his kitty (whom I've now adopted as mine too), and it's the first time the kitty's ever experienced a tree. I was sure he'd try to climb it and bat down ornaments and stuff, because he climbs DOOR FRAMES and sits on the top of the door (the inch-wide part) and yowls, and he'll climb pretty much anywhere else he feels like (he even gets himself stuck INSIDE of drawers and cupboards sometimes, I have no idea how he does it).
But I was all careful in only using non-breakable ornaments near the bottom of the tree, etc., and it was all unnecessary -- he's afraid of the thing. Who knew? This cat will brave the weirdest scenarios, but the tree totally freaks him out... he sort of slinks low to the ground when he's near it to try to get past its tree-radar or something. So funny.
Anyway, I guess this is more entertaining than helpful, but good luck to those of you trying the towel trick! And lin23, you might try dabbing some citronella essential oil around the tree, most cats hate that smell and then they won't go near it. Good luck! |
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:59 am |
Our girls are 8 months old now.. and we gave up on having Xmas decorations inside this year.
At first we were going to have the tree and only non-breakable or old ornaments... but then I put out my nice new garland at the entry table and they proceeded to chew it up.
Applied bitter apple spray (after forking over $16 for it) to stop them, but all the did was have a look of extreme distaste on their faces as they continued to chomp and chew. (phit-phat, this is gross.. chomp, chomp, ewww.. yuk... chomp, chomp) 
I decided against putting my tree through that ... so instead spent a fortune on pretty illuminations for the outside (candy canes, snowman, etc.) and bought a cut tree from Ikea to decorate for the front porch!  |
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:22 am |
What do you mean by 'a cut tree'?
*sigh*...well....we've resorted to our old standby, which is everytime we leave the house or go to sleep we put kitty downstairs. His food and littebox are down there anyways, and the kids' rooms are all down there. He sure was pissed off this morning when I let him out though. |
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:31 pm |
I forgot to mention, even though our cat leaves the tree alone, he eats tinsel and then immediately barfs up sparkly festive cat puke. So no tinsel around our household -- we learned that the hard way.
He also does the same thing with the pom-poms I bought for our SuperBowl party last year, rubber bands, hair ties, dental floss, and any other stringy material he finds lying around. It's a weird habit of his, and we have to be really careful what innocent-seeming objects we leave around, lest they wind up regurgitated on our carpet somewhere. |
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:21 pm |
"sparkly festive cat puke."
I'm sorry but that's hysterical. This whole thread has me quite amused.
No cats in our house....just a dog who could care less about the x-mas tree!
Maria
ETA - Liz, your bunny is so adorable! |
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Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:02 pm |
Hey, ladies!
Please let the cats/dogs celebrate!
In my family it's been some years since we had a Christmas tree. None of us miss it, but right now seeing how my cats got found of the sheaf (waiting to get up in a tree), I felt like having a tree for the first time in ages.
Decorate like world~of~mirth suggest and let them play and climb. It's a Holiday for all of us, isn't it? |
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Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:45 am |
by "cut tree".. well, it is Japan and if people have "real" trees, they are usually potted, not like in the US where you lop down a tree and lug it home. We got the lopped variety at Ikea. 
Our girls love to barf up things they should not eat.. the most disgusting was when one ate my beautiful, full, flourishing, huge.. and newsly purchased... Maiden Hair Fern..I had researched till blue in the face for something I would like to have that was not going to poison them... but it would have been nice ifthe websties added that whilst not poisonous, kitty will barf up a huge green log of fern fronds.. and leave a lovely soft squishy deposit in the litter box the following day. ewww.
The biggest problem we have with safety is that they love push-pins (the pins with colored ends for holding things in cork boards.. what are they called overseas?)... no matter how hard we have them pushed in the wall they will pull them out and then play soccer. On more than one occasion I have had to force open a mouth to get it out before something horrible happened.  |
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Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:20 pm |
| tiger_tim wrote: |
| The biggest problem we have with safety is that they love push-pins (the pins with colored ends for holding things in cork boards.. what are they called overseas? |
Hi Tiger Tim,
I believed they are called "thumb tacks" here in the states. |
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Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:02 pm |
| I've heard them referred to as both thumb tacks and push pins here in NY. I guess it's regional? |
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Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:07 pm |
| To me, thumb tacks are the ones with a flat metal disc instead of a convex plastic thingy. Does that make sense? (But I think pretty much everyone uses those two terms interchangeably. And I've had cats who go nuts for those, too, though not to the point of tearing them out of bulletin boards! ) |
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Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:24 pm |
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
Thumb tacks are like Ginnielizz said,...round flat ones that you push in with your thumbs....and the colored ones that have a sticky outie thing that you can hang on to are called push pins. Well that's what we call them here anyhow... |
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:24 am |
| We call "thumb tacks" "drawing pins" in the UK. |
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:49 am |
| This thread is getting better and better. One of my kitties has turned into an ornament thief. I found a little pile of ornaments under the bed. My kitty is apparently getting ornaments one by one off the tree somehow and then hiding them in his secret stash. |
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:48 am |
| Jeannine wrote: |
| This thread is getting better and better. One of my kitties has turned into an ornament thief. I found a little pile of ornaments under the bed. My kitty is apparently getting ornaments one by one off the tree somehow and then hiding them in his secret stash. |
That's so sweet What a tidy fellow! If he'd also bring them out next year, you could leave both the decorating and the tidying to him 
My little girl likes to play with bracelets and headband and girlie stuff. I find things like that all over the house. Kind of surprising as she has a pretty though attitude. However, she's so into accessories that I gave her a necklace for fun last Christmas. It was long and loosely wrapped around her neck so she could easily get it off. But that was obviously not an option. Instead she changed the way it was wrapped from time to time and wore it very proudly for months until the hunting season started and the rattle of the beads became a handicap for my little tomboy. |
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