Step one: Set up your Christmas tree. Admire it! oooooh, aaaaaaaah, it is delightful! it is pre lit! it is sitting nicely on your little side table, and makes your apartment look nice and Christmas-y.
Step two: go through your Christmas ornaments, and bypass anything that is breakable. (You will be glad about this later)
Step three: Plug in tree, watch cat eyeing lights with glee.
Step four: Admire your decorated tree.
Step five: spray cat who is gnawing on the branches of the tree with water bottle. Cat runs away.
Step six: spray cat who is gnawing on the branches of the tree with water bottle. Cat runs away.
Step seven: spray cat who is gnawing on the branches of the tree with water bottle. Cat runs away.
Step eight: You are about to leave the house! Yay! there is life outside your apartment! (that, or you are going to work) Unplug the tree, as you do not want to come home to electrocuted cat.
Step nine: Return home. Find tree on floor, mangled. Pick up tree, fluff branches, and put ornaments back on. Repeat every time you return to the house.
Step ten: spray cat who is gnawing on the branches of the tree with water bottle. Cat runs away.
Repeat until insanity is firmly set in.
LOL so true.
ReplyDeleteWe have been fortunate though and trained one of our cats to stay away from the Christmas tree. He fears disapproval of any sort and only wants people to love and adore his every move.
The other one on the other hand, while he's improved over the years he still things he should be able to eat the tree.
We tried spraying the cat with water when she jumped on the table. I gave up when I found her curled around the spray bottle while on the table.
ReplyDeletea horizontal christmas tree makes a nice hedgerow for a cat. no lights needed. just be sure to use soft ornaments, or in my case fake poinsettia garland that can be pulled apart. was finding berries under the rug 6 months later.
ReplyDeleteStep 3?
ReplyDeleteHa! Thanks! lack of editing for the win! (fixing now)
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