Cats and Christmas trees

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Dec 2005, 21:54

Advice needed please. How do you dissuade your cat from climbing up the Christmas tree?

Marco has just climbed up the trunk of ours and decided to nibble lightly on the 'red chilli' lights which adorn it.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 21:56

Wee round the bottom of it. It's *your* tree.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 15 Dec 2005, 21:58

Dadaist wrote:Wee round the bottom of it. It's *your* tree.

Easier said than done!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:08

Why else is the fairy at the top of the tree called Tinkerbell?

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:14

Son just told me to tell you to put " lion dung" round the bottom of your tree, that should do the trick!!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:29

Arachnid wrote:Son just told me to tell you to put " lion dung" round the bottom of your tree, that should do the trick!!!

That's very good advice. Next time I'm at the zoo I shall take a shovel and a tupperware box.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:37

I can just picture you with your " Tuppaware"box and a shovel tring to scoop up dung in the lion's den!!!

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:37

Poor Marya, you could be having a very pongy house for Christmas

Robin! · Post by **Robin!** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:43

hehehe, I only had that prob when my two were kittens.

Put pepper or orange peels or something round the tree.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:44

http://www.thecatsite.com/Cats/Cat_Care ... stmas.html

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 15 Dec 2005, 22:54

we use orange spice aromatic oil on some of the the tree branches, cats seem to hate it and it is kind off chrismassy

Ed · Post by Ed » 16 Dec 2005, 09:50

Arachnid wrote:I can just picture you with your " Tuppaware"box and a shovel tring to scoop up dung in the lion's den!!!

I am sure I have seen for sale before, actual Lion Dung in a package for this very purpose, i.e. dissuading cats from doing stuff.

Other thing I would suggest is orange peel.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 16 Dec 2005, 10:16

Thanks for the suggestions of orange oils/peel. I'd never heard of that before and it sounds much more attractive than lion's dung

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Dec 2005, 10:20

Marya wrote:Thanks for the suggestions of orange oils/peel. I'd never heard of that before and it sounds much more attractive than lion's dung

Buy a Lion Bar. Put it at the bottom of the tree. If that doesn't work, try throwing the Lion Bar at the cat next time it tries to climb up.

If that doesn't work, just eat the Lion Bar.

edit - fixed quote marks

Ed · Post by Ed » 16 Dec 2005, 10:27

I am willing to offer the services of my 1 year old son Jack who will stand guard at the base of your tree and by attempting to "be friends" with your cat will in effect scare it away. Problem solved.

I dont really know how you would deal with the "baby touching your tree" problem that you would then have?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Dec 2005, 10:41

Ed wrote:I am willing to offer the services of my 1 year old son Jack who will stand guard at the base of your tree and by attempting to "be friends" with your cat will in effect scare it away. Problem solved.

I dont really know how you would deal with the "baby touching your tree" problem that you would then have?

Tie a rope round the baby and attach it to something so that it can guard the tree without reaching it. An interesting problem which might first call for some graph paper, a protracter, and a quick call to social services.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 16 Dec 2005, 14:08

Get rid of the cat.

*ducks quickly*

Lily ignores the tree but I did find her chewing on a light bulb on a low branch the other, and she's 8 - you'd think she might have realised by now. But then all that inbreeding makes for tiny brains.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Dec 2005, 14:18

Cats are at their most endearing when being really dumb. They're so shameless about it too.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 17 Dec 2005, 23:19

Being so much more mature this year, Selma has decided that climbing the tree is so 'last year'

. She's obviously decided that knocking the cards off the mantlepiece is more 'in'. We used to find that jumping up and down, shouting loudly and clapping your hands.......gave the cat a good laugh.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 17 Dec 2005, 23:24

Epykat wrote:Being so much more mature this year, Selma has decided that climbing the tree is so 'last year' . She's obviously decided that knocking the cards off the mantlepiece is more 'in'. We used to find that jumping up and down, shouting loudly and clapping your hands.......gave the cat a good laugh.

I've noticed that the lovely Selma is very good at supervising the binmen first thing in the morming - she's SOOOOO sweet!!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 17 Dec 2005, 23:30

Poppy wrote:
Epykat wrote:Being so much more mature this year, Selma has decided that climbing the tree is so 'last year' . She's obviously decided that knocking the cards off the mantlepiece is more 'in'. We used to find that jumping up and down, shouting loudly and clapping your hands.......gave the cat a good laugh.
I've noticed that the lovely Selma is very good at supervising the binmen first thing in the morming - she's SOOOOO sweet!!

You don't miss anything locally do you ... especially involving bins!!!

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 17 Dec 2005, 23:35

Dadaist wrote:
Poppy wrote:
Epykat wrote:Being so much more mature this year, Selma has decided that climbing the tree is so 'last year' . She's obviously decided that knocking the cards off the mantlepiece is more 'in'. We used to find that jumping up and down, shouting loudly and clapping your hands.......gave the cat a good laugh.
I've noticed that the lovely Selma is very good at supervising the binmen first thing in the morming - she's SOOOOO sweet!!
You don't miss anything locally do you ... especially involving bins!!!

Well, both happen opposite my bus stop at 7.45 am...... Darling.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 17 Dec 2005, 23:51

Poppy wrote: - she's SOOOOO sweet!!

She is in fact the Devil's spawn.......

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 18 Dec 2005, 17:12

Marya, promise not doing a Poppy!

Noticed your front door is looking very festive!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 18 Dec 2005, 20:29

Sandra wrote:Marya, promise not doing a Poppy!

Noticed your front door is looking very festive!

Thanks Sandra

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 18 Dec 2005, 23:06

I think you guys have taken "Neighbourhood Watch" to mean "watch your neighbours".

I awoke this morning to find Poppy at the bottom of my garden under one of those SAS camouflage net things, looking at my curtains and bin through tripod-mounted binoculars.

Talk about the Popparazzi treatment. What's next - Sandra and Marya doing helicopter flights? Epykat in a spy satellite?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 19 Dec 2005, 00:06

Dadaist wrote:I think you guys have taken "Neighbourhood Watch" to mean "watch your neighbours".

I awoke this morning to find Poppy at the bottom of my garden under one of those SAS camouflage net things, looking at my curtains and bin through tripod-mounted binoculars.

Talk about the Popparazzi treatment. What's next - Sandra and Marya doing helicopter flights? Epykat in a spy satellite?

1. That's what it DOES mean, foolish boy!

2.

3. Epykat did use a 'copter to get into the Virtual Big Brother house, so nothing would surprise me about that one - and her Mr Krook type cat.

[Nurse! It's time for Mr Dada's anti-paranoid fantasy pills]

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 19 Dec 2005, 09:04

Only reason I noticed Marya's festive front door is because I went to a friends in Duddingston yesterday to pick up some stuff and noticed it on the walk back

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 19 Dec 2005, 10:16

Sandra wrote:Only reason I noticed Marya's festive front door is because I went to a friends in Duddingston yesterday to pick up some stuff and noticed it on the walk back

Yeah yeah. Why were you taking photos of it with a hidden camera then? Eh? Eh?