[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

But Christmas IS for cats! Why else wuld we drag a live tree into the house and hang all of those tempting , fragile little things off of it?

Tried to have a Xmas tree about 15 years ago...beautiful 6' tree, lovingly decorated. Took my cat at the time (the notorious Ms. Terry, R.I.P.) all of 15 seconds to climb to the top and topple the whole thing. I shudder to think what the 4 members of my beserk tribe would do....

[PetroniDE]

Send me a few of those Xmas pictures. Might make good kitty caption material during the holidays.

[tiamat]

We were able to negotiate a Christmas Tree Treaty with the elderly siamese cat.

My daughter's cat ( aptly named Krusty" after the Simpson's character) refused to sign, however.
We still do a tree, but nothing breakable is put on it, and the tree is wired to a small eyebolt mounted in a corner of the room . Krusty has a lovely time knocking things OFF of the tree, occasionally cimbing into the tree, and eating the bows off of the packages.

Fortunately for the cat, my daughter loves him.

Tia

[retrokitten]

We don't have a tree anymore for that very reason. Our oldest kitty attacked that think like it was made of tuna. I still put up a ton of decorations and lights, just no tree.

I can't even imagine what our other cat (she came post-tree) would do to a poor defenseless Christmas tree. We bought them those cheap little furry mice with feather tails from Petsmart. She took it, ran with it, hid under the table and hissed at us if we came near her! She thought she had a real mouse. We don't have mice, but I don't think we would ever have to worry about them becoming a problem with her around!