Thread: Merry Christmas

It might be a month early but here's a couple of pix of Fey playing in the best cat toy she has ever seen! Actually only one of the pix is any good, I keep attaching the wrong ones grr

Great pic of her pretty face peeking through the baubles.
(And the other one has a nice mysterious quality as well.)

She does look like she's enjoying herself.

I have a question: how does everyone approach the Christmas Tree issue? This will be my first Christmas with cats (although I had a cat as a child, Christmas Tree debacle's were my mum's area. Which might explain why we always had one mounted to the wall I guess!). I'm not sure what approach to take. I really want to put one up as the last two Christmas's have been truly awful (one where we were staying in a converted asylum as our entire house had been flooded and we'd had to move out; the other we'd seperated for and both spent it apart. If you like a drama at Xmas, pop over...) and I really want to pull out all the stops. But our tree is this 'sophisticated' black fibre-optic-branch effort and it SO won't cope with two giant kittens trying to shin up it.
So, what does everyone else do? All suggestions welcome

Well done Fey,its great seeing someone elses furry having fun amoungst the tinsel but dreading when it is out turn.
My daughter makes me feel a hopless furry mum at xmas both of her cats are so well trained that she has no problems at all,right from a babe Crystal has had one bauble on the bottom branch of the tree which is designated hers & after only a few no's thats not yours this one is,no more problems,she only ever plays with that one,when Ozzy came along all he ever wanted to do was lay underneath it at the back,so two cats & no destruction.
We were fine not any real problems until the latest two babes came along,they were born just before xmas so were the year old before they even saw a tree,the first year we had a small one & put it on a high unit,last year we braved our normal one,nearly gave up & chucked it out,black & white cat climbing up the inside,tabby taking off all the baubles,no meant nothing,then brainwave,I got a load of holly,removed all the berries & built up a wall of holly aound the bottom of the tree,b&w cat couldn't get under to climb & because the wall of holly was brought a bit forward the other one couldn't get near the baubles,yep,it worked,a couple of pricked noses & we had respect for the tree,after xmas we gradually removed the holly & they took no notice,so watch this space,will it be back to square one or will I have six cats as well behaved as daughters.....
Have got an extra bottle of my favourite grog to help the nerves,just in case you understand ! I am looking forward to hearing & seeing the fun everyone has,getting close now.

What a marvellously festive idea... I'm already feeling braver than I was having read that!

Perhaps your daughter could sell her training services to the cat world - kind of a Cat Whisperer. It's not impossible that Freyja might loll about under the tree, but Wicca won't be happy til it's either on the floor, shredded, or she's perched precariously on the top like a furry (and slightly demonic) angel!

Originally Posted by FreyjaRoMaine

Wicca won't be happy til it's either on the floor, shredded, or she's perched precariously on the top like a furry (and slightly demonic) angel!

I really can not wait for that photo

These were the pix I was looking for, had to take my contacts out before I could see the icons!! Fey likes to tease me and bat the tree, especially as she knows I will play 'ball' with her to distract her (and tire her out); she'll play fetch with me for ages, type a word throw the ball (screwed up paper) type a word... repeat cycle.

We put the tree up really early this year as last year we were all living in a field (making a smallholding) but it amounted to us living in a caravan and the cats living in a huge summerhouse, it got so cold their water bowls froze solid, as did our 5 litre water bottles and they were inside! Silly thing was that the cats were fine, just very furry (although they did have our GSD to keep them warm... he actually adores the cats and would have them sleeping on him).

Good idea with the holly, I might have to try it!