"I'm Climbing Up The Christmas Tree MEOW" (cats vs Christmas trees)

[Are_grits_groceries]

Ha!

[aroach]

1. You should see our tree.

We have six cats. I decided to just leave the ornaments where they fall and stop picking them up and putting them back just to see how many would be left on the tree Christmas Day. Our tree is both pathetic and hilarious at the same time. They've even managed to cause several layers of branches to no longer light up. (It was a pre-lit tree.) They have had so much fun though.

Also, the dog ate all the salt dough ornaments that the kids made a few years ago. She was only able to eat them after the cats knocked them off the tree for her. So much for them becoming family heirlooms. LOL.

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting.

[K.O. Stradivarius]

2. You haven't fully experienced the joy of pets and christmas...

until you've pulled 8' of garland from a dobermans ass.

[aroach]

3. I wouldn't dare use garland

for that very reason. Tinsel and Easter basket grass are also banned from our house.

[K.O. Stradivarius]

5. I know it's bad for dogs/cats as it can cut up their insides.

didn't know that back then.

[TeeYiYi]

4. I call that 'anal knitting'...

It's performance art!

TYY

[Aerows]

6. Ooooohhhh

When I was a young girl, we had an 18 pound Siamese cat named Thomas. He took OUT the Christmas tree one year by leaping into it like it was a tree. He was an indoor cat, and it was an artificial tree. I'm just glad it didn't fall through the living room window.

My sister and my mother and I still laugh about it. Dad wasn't nearly as amused LOL.

[CountAllVotes]

7. I have 3 cats now

and two of them are 5 mos. old kittens and OMG ... tomcats at that *eek*

No Xmas tree around here -- that you CAN believe in (would be a goner within about 20 mins. at the most).

[frazzled]

8. I guess I'm lucky our cat is ...

Jewish.

She gets into enough trouble as it is. Hello? Can I never buy flowers again, without her eating them and throwing up? (And watch out for your iPhone. We made the mistake of putting the Cat Toy app on it. She now thinks the little mouse is inside the phone and tries to flip it over to get at the back. If the phone is on a table, ouch.)

[murielm99]

9. I have had a couple of Christmas tree-climbing cats.

The first one was chased up the tree by the dog, and then the dog leaned on the tree, taking it out. I screamed so loudly that they were scared to go near the tree again.

The second one used to perch in the lower branches. She just liked it in there. It never fell, so I ignored the whole thing.

Of course, we had a puppy who knocked over the tree. She chewed up a few ornaments, too, pulled the garland off the tree and raced through the house with it.

That is life with animals.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

10. That made me want to get a cat again.

[stage left]

11. Love it.

When we were first married, we had a real Christmas tree that we decorated with garland made out of popcorn. Enter our new tabby kitten. Exit popcorn garland.

[Tigress DEM]

15. Went to the cheap theater in our area. 10 ft tree, popcorn garland. Grand daughter. Lesson.

"No honey, don't eat the garland. It's there for decoration is is probably very old by now."

"OH." Puts half eaten piece back on the tree.

Walking away now. Walking away. Sigh.

[janlyn]

12. Usually my cat Butters doesn't bother the tree

except to sleep under it, until this year. Lucky for us,as a 21 pound cat could do some damage. He attacked an ornament and knocked it off. I went to put it back up, when I realized it was one of the new dove ornaments I bought this year.

[brer cat]

13. I had a cat once who climbed the Christmas tree

when she needed to barf. Now that produced some really unique Christmas decorations!

Gotta love the kittehs, anyway.

[trumad]

14. Solution

[Tigress DEM]

16. ROFL !! YES !!! nt

[freshwest]

18. Close to my solution. Put mine inside a portable wooden crib to keep my kid off it. Same difference.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. That cat...

is plotting its keepers death.

[Digit]

17. Loved the video!

I had a teeny cat who weighed only 7 lbs full grown. She used to perch in our Christmas tree each year so she could observe her domain. Of course no ornaments survived anywhere near her....

No Christmas tree is complete without a cat in it for decoration.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Love it!

I miss my cats. I used to have three, years ago. We had a tree just one year. It lasted exactly 10 minutes. The cats coordinated an attack and down it went.