Cat climbing on christmas tree

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We have a four month old kitten and have just got the christmas tree out. As I should have know, and expected, she is obsessed with the tree, climbing it, nibbling on the decorations , etc. There isn't anywhere else to put it other than to place it in a room where we won't see the tree. Or shut her out of the room all the time. Any tips? Do I say goodbye to the tree or pack it away?!! Help.

I got a fibre optic Xmas tree and put 1 or 2 cheap baubles at the bottom. Because it wasn't huge, the novelty wore off PDQ. Plus she got annoyed every time the tree fell on her
One of my cats decided to sit in a pile of tinsel one year, so that took care of Xmas cards😁

Loving these photos , luckily I have a dog - who won't go near the tree and just eyes it with suspicion , the first time she saw one she was scared of it

I'm loving these cat in tree photos!!!

@Puzzledandpissedoff is that a FOX in #8???

I don't know what 'type' of tree it is but when we went to B&Q I told the nice man that we have a kitten and he recommended we go for a particular type of tree that feels like it's made out of hedgehogs... seriously, it's so spiky, OH and I had to wear oven mitts when we were decorating it Neighbours must have thought we were bonkers.

That said it does seem to be working! We've avoided any baubles on the lower branches so he's less likely to move them by accident and the few occasions we've seen him go near the tree so far he's pricked himself, given a greatly dissatisfied yowl, and then left the thing alone.

Now I've said that, I'll probably come home tonight to find the whole thing has come down...

@Scribblegirl i've got a mental picture of you decorating a monkey puzzle with mitts on!

Ours is anchored to the wall with string since we got a kitten a few Christmases ago.

To be fair now he's older he doesn't seem to climb it, but he does chew it and the decs.

sooo, glittery shit for a few weeks...

It's not far off IceFall!

None of my previous boys have been in the least interested in the tree once up. This new one, though..............

I guess we'll see at the weekend. I cling to hope at the moment. After all, he doesn't seem interested in cables of any kind. (Feathers, though.........)

Feel your pain

This is my old girl a few years ago, proving that the temptation to climb/attack does wear off eventually

She looks 'contemplative' rather than 'uninterested', I fear.

It seems to be the ambition of a large number of kittens and cats to be the fairy on the top of the Christmas tree.

Our tree is going up Saturday and I'm dreading what I'll find Sunday morning

Yeah not putting the usual effort into it this year!

I feel your apprehension.

Newboy likes to 'play' at night.

Obviously the first thing I will do before I fix/re-erect/pick up the tree (I am fully expecting this to be a disaster by the way, i just know Heidi will be up that tree like a rocket) is take a photo and post in on here.

I'm howling at these photos. Naughty kitties

Ours is tied to two walls with string - we tried tying it to just one wall, but the furry bastards worked together and knocked it at an angle so everything slowly slid towards the floor!

So it's anchored to two walls with string and so far they've not managed to do any damage. They both have baubles to play with but of course they're more interested in the ones on the tree. So we now put baubles on and bend the branches over so they can't knock them off.

Doesn't stop Purrlock staring at them enviously!

Well........You put up a special new climbing frame - with illuminations - for them. I would be giving a look as well if I couldn't use it.

Love these pics of cats in trees [santa]

GUYS

You need satsuma/orange peel.

The oil in orange peel is a massive deterrent to cats, when I was a kid we put satsuma peel IN the tree and wiped the skins on the “feet” of the -fake- tree to deter any would be feline tree conquerors.

The same solution can be applied to cats who spray where you don’t want them to, orange peel and rub the peel one metre square around the cats preferred “spray zone”

HTH - now I’m away to take a Piritin as there are far too many bloody lovely cats on this thread and I’m hella allergic

I know that my boys have hated it when I peeled a citrus fruit. Doesn't it evaporate though?

You have wet cats. I tried that and they batted around the peel then tore it to shreds.

this is why my tree never goes up until the last minute...

idiot cat and his sister ignore it for about four days...and then it is GAME ON, and once that game starts the only way it its going to end it with a dead/dismantled tree and a cat bound up with tree lights or beading.

Have had a fake tree for a couple of years now and it sits in the big window in the other room....I even have a hook to fix the top to so they cannot knock it over but still they try.

Reading with interest as I too have a 4 mth old Kitten that can find trouble in an empty room.
I am delaying putting the tree up for a while yet to save my sanity as I am a bit of a perfectionist where the tree is concerned.

One thing I would advise is not to leave a kitten alone with a tree at all, i read an horrific story last year about a family with a kitten, they went out and when they arrived home later their kitten had been climbing in the tree slipped and strangled himself in the light cables, they found him hanging there.

At the end of the day the tree is only up for 2 or three weeks our kitty is quite happy in the kitchen when we are not around so he may find him self in the kitchen a little more than normal but hey ho rather him there than an awful accident happen