Cat people

Butter Cookie

How do you keep your cat from destroying your tree? I've tried pepper, lemon juice, nothing is working. Those damn dirty bastages are still STILL chewing up my tiny little tree. They've knocked it over several times and I've already lost some ornaments.

Do I just need to get a metal tree and call it a day?

zsazsa-stl

I have a real tree and the cat loves it.  I have some woven straw ornaments that I hang around the bottom so that he can bat at them to his heart's desire.  As much as he plays with it he has never been at risk of knocking it over.

You need a heavier tree.  Is there some way that you can weight down the base of it? 

Or try bitter apple?

Butter Cookie

It's only 2 feet tall. Short of gluing bricks to it there's no way to weigh it down. Really though they just chew on the damn branches.

Maybe I should hang it upside down from the ceiling. LOL

**O-Face**

THAT would be a solution, BC.

Mrs.Thistletwat

Can you get them a branch or two of their own to mess with?

GBCK

we put up the fake one yesterday.
within an hour parts were destroyed.

Cats just like destroying things, IMO

**O-Face**

I imagine them taking this "given" branch and then using it as a battering ram to topple to real tree.  I find that hilarious.

I have a crazy imagination.

Mrs.Thistletwat

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[QUOTE]I imagine them taking this "given" branch and then using it as a battering ram to topple to real tree.  I find that hilarious. I have a crazy imagination.
Posted by **O-Face**[/QUOTE]

Kitty Christmas Pinata?

Butter Cookie

LOL

Well, at least they're cute. Maybe I will humiliate them by making them wear elf hats or something. Muahahaha!

LnR70707

We haven't really had any chewing issues with the live trees.  The real fun will start when we put the tree skirt (sheet) down.  They like to get running starts and see how far it moves with a headfirst dive.

Heffalump

We've only had problems with them stealing ornaments, so I'm afraid I don't have any helpful advice.  Maybe try one of those motion detector ornaments and try to scare the crap out of them?  LINKY

Butter Cookie

I might try that. "The penguin is watching!" ::cue grey boy fleeing from the room, like someone just blew air in a can::