Oh where to begin

[disheah]

Christmas madness is upon me. I don't really understand this obsession you Americans have with hunting down perfectly fine trees, chopping them down, dragging them to your house, leaving them there for 3 weeks, and then tossing them out to be landfilled. But the wife wants one, so whatever. Our new cat has also taken to trying to climb said

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[disheah]

Many trees were sacrificed last sunday (although I thought sacrifice traditionally entails burning trees in a great mead hall). I hope your norse gods are sated.

[staggeronward]

Whatever you have heard is a lie. Nothing keeps cats out of trees; cats are a force of nature and will do what they please regardless of how unpleasant you make it for them. I bought a tree that is two feet tall, thinking they couldn't climb a tree that's smaller than them. They laughed.

[disheah]

So you're saying that even I were to bring home, say a tree made out of barbed wire and set it one fire, she'd still try to climb it?

[staggeronward]

Absolutely. Back when Puck was going through his chewing on power cords phase, I smeared hot sauce all over every cord in the house. I think he found it tasty.

[alice_the_raven]

Good luck on the test!

We finally opted for a fake tree. :P I love the smell, but I had the pine needles after.

[disheah]

Arigatoo gozaimasu!

[taschenrechner]

We just rigged a length of fishing line (use a decent test) to the top and used little nails to create a semi-invisible rigging around the top portion of the tree. Our cat would climb all day long and not do anything to hurt the tree.

[disheah]

True, I had read that online somewhere about cat-proofing your tree. I'm not handy when it comes to home-repairs as it is, and my general laziness currently exceeds my fear of a christmas cat-astrophy. Thus far, she hasn't gone beyond the first tier of branches.