meowmix71
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posted on December 18, 2005 07:59:52 PM new
I'm talking about our Christmas tree. We put it up last night around 5 pm and went into my living room about 10 pm and it was laying almost on the floor. The kitty condo broke the fall. At least I didn't put any breakable ornaments on the tree. Now if I can keep the two younger ones from tasting the tree all will be OK. They keep chewing at the tree branches. It's a fake tree but it sheds needles like a real one so the cats chewing on it doesn't help.
So far today the tree has stood. We were gone for several hours and I expected it to be on the floor when we got back but it wasn't.
I am keeping a count this year on how many times we have to pick it up off the floor. The count is only one but I'm sure that will double tomorrow.
Oh the joys of Chrismas and cats. ButI love everyone of our spoiled babies.
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sparkz
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posted on December 18, 2005 08:10:50 PM new
Meowmix...Considering there are about 100 million people in this country that are in the same predicament as you (and me!), I'm surprised someone hasn't designed a solid steel Christmas tree with outriggers on it. He'd probably make a fortune.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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minniestuff
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posted on December 18, 2005 08:30:08 PM new
We have cats that chew up the artificial trees too. Three of them are 17 years old and you would think that they would be tired of trashing the tree by now.
We think that we have finally solved the problem this year...we bought a four and a half foot tree that already has colored lights attached and put it on the mantle of our corner fireplace! We added some ornaments and garland and we have been enjoying a tree for the first time in years.
Now if we could figure out somewhere to put the gifts so the cats wouldn't take all of the bows off...
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Roadsmith
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posted on December 18, 2005 09:27:19 PM new
One year we put our Christmas tree in a playpen. Kept the cats off, but it was plug ugly to look at. We hadn't thought about decorating the playpen, LOL. Hmmm. Strings of lights? Icicles?
My most memorable Christmas was when I was about 5. We lived in a little parsonage, and Dad's church was a block away. We left our new white fluffy puppy, Tubby, in the house because it was sooo cold out.
When we got home from church, Tubby had opened all the presents. His favorite was my new white fur muff, which he'd dragged into a bedroom and chewed nearly to pieces. It was so awful we laughed. No effort to open presents that year.
I wonder if fluffy white Tubby thought the white fur muff was just another puppy.
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cblev65252
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posted on December 19, 2005 05:13:50 AM new
When we had a cat, we bolted the tree to the wall using rope and Molly Toggles. It was the only way. Now, with the dog, we have the tree up and out of his way. You know what dogs find trees good for. . .LOL!
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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photosensitive
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posted on December 19, 2005 05:45:10 AM new
Have you seen the new artificial trees that hang upside down from the ceiling? Saw them on TV. The maker said it was to make more room for presents but someone commented that it might also save them from pets!
Don't have a pet story to rival Roadsmith but we had a family story (I was too young to actually remember) about the year I was 4. We always opened our presents on Christmas morning. My best friend John's family opened theirs on Christmas eve. That year we went to church on Christmas eve and came home to find all the gifts under the tree had been ripped open. Seems John wandered in from next door (no one in rural east Texas locked their doors in the "good old days" and saw that we had not opened our gifts and decided to help us out.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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carolinetyler
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posted on December 19, 2005 06:15:45 AM new
Those stories are too funny! With 3 dogs I keep the tree in the front room behind closed doors - they look at it with a glint in their eye just waiting to be able to lift a leg to it.
I just had one of the dogs find a plastic bag of things I had bought, pulled out all his stocking stuffer toys and leave everthing else in there. They love Christmas!
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 Caroline
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pelorus
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posted on December 19, 2005 08:25:41 AM new
Funny story, meowmix! Why don't you post a picture of your horizontal tree here!
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meowmix71
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posted on December 20, 2005 08:32:46 PM new
It's a record!!! So far the tree has only been knocked over that once. Mind you I've had to fix the garland and pick up a few ornaments but at least the tree is still standing. It's not over yet though. Still got to get through Christmas and New Year's Day before I take it down.
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