Pets and Holiday Trees.

[Cobalt Violet]

Post you pet & holiday tree (Christmas tree, to some) story here.


When I was a kid my dog left a nice "present" under the tree once.

[Princess Turandot]

1. If any-cat needs some pointers on Christmas Tree management..

my cat Razpy has produced a webpage called 'Bert's Guide to Xmas Tree Demolition'. Bert is a Canadian tabby who kindly shared his story and photos with Razpy. The captions are in 'cat-speak', but are clear-ish phonetically..

http://www.vultureviews.net/posting/bertxmas/index.html

PS I have 5 cats..haven't been brave enough to mount a tree since I got them!

[Cobalt Violet]

2. I think my cat, Freckles, has been to Razpy's website.

And they look alike too.

[Longhorn]

3. Brutus will go anywhere that is warmer than the tile floor.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. Awe so cute.

He even has his chew toy under there.

[auburngrad82]

4. We took our male Australian Cattle Dog to my parents' house for xmas

He had never seen a Christmas tree. Also, we have a 2+ acre yard with LOTS of trees. So when he came into my parents' house, the first thing he did was walk over and start peeing on the Christmas tree. We yelled and he got the message. No peeing on trees in the house. It was an honest mistake. He is nine years old and never "marks" inside the house. But a tree's a tree...

[Cobalt Violet]

8. A tree is a tree.

And a tree is a toilet.

[MidwestMomma]

5. My kitty Walter's story

Walter's first Christmas, I put up the artificial tree and went to work. Walter was my 2nd cat and my first cat Patches always did fine with the tree. Anyway, I come home from work and the tree is on the floor. I figure 'someone' had done something but nobody was talking.

So I set the tree back up and later that evening, Walter goes over to the tree, climbs straight up the middle pole of the tree and when he gets to the top, rides the tree to the floor.

I gave up on artificial trees after that year. :-)

[Cobalt Violet]

10. Some cats just can't resist.

A tree is just an odd cat ladder.

[scarlet_owl]

6. If I hang ornaments on the bottom branches, the ferrets

steal them and then take them to their hidey-holes. They will sometimes climb the tree, but it doesn't do any harm.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. A tree is just another ferret toy.

With lots of stealable little toys on it.:-)

[SW FL Dem]

11. One year I was awakened by the strangest sound

I went into the living room to see the Christmas tree shaking. When I looked under the tree, I saw my 17 yr old terrier mix all lit up in Christmas lights. She was mostly blind at the time, she somehow managed to walk into a string of mini lights and got them wrapped around her torso. She gave up and just lay down and went to sleep waiting for someone to unwind her.

[Eurobabe]

12. just got a tree today was out this afternoon

when I got home, there a nice little pile of cat spittle on the living room rug. Someone has been trolling in the tree...wonder who that was?