Christmas tree challenge!

The holiday season is coming quickly. I'm issuing an all paws challenge to anyone who's interested.

Cat Christmas tree challenge. I challenge my fellow catsite members to forgo traditional Christmas tree ornaments and instead use cat toys. Get creative and post the results of your kitty Christmas tree.


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You know, I have the cats' Christmas tree from several years ago. It was a smaller tree, maybe about four feet tall and it had nothing but kitty ornaments on it. We did take some pictures at the time, but I have no idea where they're at. We do have a lot of cat ornaments, but we no longer do a cat tree; we just put the ornaments on our traditional tree in the living room. I'll have to look for those pictures!

That's a cute idea! We typically don't even bother with decorations much, but if we did a cat toy tree I think it would be destroyed in record time! :lol3:

Oh yeah. Utter destruction. But very fun. Lol

:lol3::lol3::lol3: All our ornaments are considered cat toys! Our last cat used to strip the ornaments off the tree every single night and push them under the furniture or living room carpet; Mogli usually only pulls off one or two a day. Needless to say, we only use unbreakable ornaments (cloth, pewter, wood, plastic) and wireless electric "candles".

Winchester said:

 
You know, I have the cats' Christmas tree from several years ago. It was a smaller tree, maybe about four feet tall and it had nothing but kitty ornaments on it. We did take some pictures at the time, but I have no idea where they're at. We do have a lot of cat ornaments, but we no longer do a cat tree; we just put the ornaments on our traditional tree in the living room. I'll have to look for those pictures!

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Are you putting the TWT up this year? Maybe make that a kitty themed tree if you are. 

I'm not putting one up at all. Sophie would go through it like a furry tornado and I'd come home to the carnage. 

I don't know yet. Part of the problem now is that since Rick brought some furniture home from his parents' house, we are really starved for room. I don't know where the living room tree is going to go, let alone finding room for the TWT. Even the bedroom is now off-limits to trees because he brought his grandmother's cedar chest and his grandfather's rocking chair to the bedroom. I don't know what we're going to do. We have three full-length Christmas trees and now we have no place for any of them. The gate is still up between the living room and the kitchen, too; Rick keeps saying he wants to take it down, but he hasn't done it yet. Between the cats' stuff, the dog's stuff, and our stuff, well, it's just too much at this point. Even simple cleaning has become a real hassle at this point. It's a hassle even to walk around! I really hate it.

There's one place in the living room for the traditional Christmas tree and his (new, but old) secretary's desk is there now. We keep the hooks in the wall at that location because we've always wired our Christmas tree to the wall (so the cats can't knock it over).

If I do put the TWT up, I can't make it into a cat tree; I just can't. It's got its blue balls and blue lights and I bake cookies with that tree turned on in the kitchen. It's something that means too much to me, much to the chagrin of the rest of my family who hates the tree. I used to put the TWT up at Thanksgiving, so my mother could enjoy it when she came down for dinner. But with the way Mollipop and Tabby tear into the tree, I don't put it up now until right before Christmas.....they've broken one of the larger branches, so we try to rest it on a box; it sounds horrid, but doesn't look to badly, I guess.

We don't have the small 4-foot tree anymore and, even if we did, I seriously don't know where in the world it would go.

We have seriously outgrown our house. And we keep trying to work on the basement, but that's not going anywhere either.

I am not sure I want to risk destruction of my brand new tree by making it a cat tree. I don't know where i am going to set it up this year anyway. It usually goes in the family room with the fireplace, but we got rid of the furniture in the living room and moved the family room furniture in there. We will be buying new furniture for the family room after the kitchen is finished. It will be bare for Christmas. I love having Christmas in that room! So cozy ans traditional. 

OK, this was the Cat Tree of 2004.....It's a small 4-foot tree that we used to decorate with kitty ornaments. I don't remember lights, but that looks like a cord behind there, so it must have had lights. And that's our old kitchen, pink wall and all. The tree is perched on the cats' litter box....that green box with the white cat is the litter box in the kitchen.



And again in 2005....


The Tacky White Tree (TWT) came to live with us in 2006.....

I had been thinking about getting a TWT for a while. We were on our way home from visiting with our kids; they lived in Harrisburg then. We stopped off at Home Depot for something (don't remember what) and there was the TWT in all its shining tackiness. I looked at Rick and he kept shaking his head and saying, "No. No. Please, No." I paid for it and they put it in the truck. And the rest is history.

The cats have it pretty well wrecked unfortunately. Mollipop and (esp) Tabby are the worst offenders. Amber just likes to sleep in the back; we think that's how one of the lower branches got broken. Blue balls and blue and white lights. Rick calls it his PennState tree. 

That's the thing, cats are so destructive towards Christmas trees anyways. Lol It's like theirs a universal cat pact that no Christmas tree shall go untouched.

Don't let this be you! LOL