2 years ago, we put dark green, small holed netting (from a fabric store) around the bottom 2/3rds of our tree, to keep our toddler out of it. Since I also gathered it up and tied it around the trunk of the tree at the bottom, I discovered that there were no bouncing jingle bells at 3 am

, and no cats in the water if I included the top of the tree stand in what I gathered the netting around

. We could barely tell the netting was there, unless we were right next to it, even in pictures

. This will be the 3rd year I'm gonna put it on (we have a new dog)!