Posted on 12/12/2008 10:53:44 AM PST by JoeProBono
Last year as I sat admiring my beautiful ten-foot live Scotch pine tree adorned with a cat ornament collection, Lexie Lee took a running leap about four yards from the tree, landed half way up the tree and disappeared into the trunk. I am not sure whether my screaming caused her to come down the tree and exit back out into the living room (as if nothing unusual had just occurred), but I was sure glad to see her unharmed and the tree still standing. Then there was the year when Noelle knocked over a seven-foot tree while climbing to the top.
You’re lucky...my 3 kitties LOVED the Christmas tree. We got a Frasier Fir and all they wanted to do was sit under it, play with the branches and ornaments....thankfully, they really didn’t climb it. We anchored the tree stand with 2 flat cinder blocks so that in case they climbed, it wouldn’t tip. They pulled all the lights off that were near the bottom of the tree....I was so tired of hanging them back on, that they just sagged down for the rest of time the tree was up! That’s my kitty story! :)
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