My bleeping cat is the bleeping Grinch

[Anonymous]

She has pilfered half the ornaments from the tree.

Orange cat, of course.

We finally wrapped a bunch of gifts and put them under the tree in hopes it would cut off her leverage getting up on hind legs to grab stuff from the middle.

Any other tips?

She’s truly lucky she is so cute.

[Anonymous]

We had this cat. We put less fragile ornaments on the bottom. Anything he pulled down, we put back up higher on the tree. Inevitably by Christmas all of our ornaments were on the top half of the tree. We learned to embrace the lopsided decorations over the years. This will be our first Christmas without him and it’s odd to look at our fully decorated tree.

This is also the cat that ate ribbon and threw it up, so this may also be the first year we can put presents under the tree.

Best advice: embrace the Grinch cat. You’re not winning this battle.

[Anonymous]

My childhood cat once took down the whole tree trying to climb it. Some ornaments smashed. He was this giant orange tabby and boy did he live up to the "one brain cell" rep. He also would open presents because he liked tearing paper. We would secure the tree to the wall and keep the presents in a closet until Christmas day.

Cats and Christmas trees are quite a combo.

[Anonymous]

Whenever we've had kittens (it's been over a decade and yes our cats are geriatric), we always get Colorado Blue Spruce trees. They're tough and sturdy and can hold ornaments really well. Best of all, their needles are sharp and unpleasant to touch. We also placed the ornaments high on the tree during the kitten year. The kitties learn in a hurry those trees are no fun to tangle with and they'll leave the trees alone in the future.

[Anonymous]

My Christmas tree is placed between two bookshelves (that are secured to the wall) and I always take three pieces of thin rope and secure it top, middle and bottom to hooks on both shelves (sort of pin it in); otherwise the tree would be on the floor daily. And both my cats are middle-aged, it’s just something about — A tree! In the house! Let’s climb! — that makes them go crazy.

Growing up, we had a small Nativity under the tree that had a removable Baby Jesus. Our cat stole Baby Jesus from his manger at least daily, and my mom sent us kids on a mission to track him down. It became sort of a holiday tradition, pre Elf on the Shelf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Christmas tree is placed between two bookshelves (that are secured to the wall) and I always take three pieces of thin rope and secure it top, middle and bottom to hooks on both shelves (sort of pin it in); otherwise the tree would be on the floor daily. And both my cats are middle-aged, it’s just something about — A tree! In the house! Let’s climb! — that makes them go crazy.

Growing up, we had a small Nativity under the tree that had a removable Baby Jesus. Our cat stole Baby Jesus from his manger at least daily, and my mom sent us kids on a mission to track him down. It became sort of a holiday tradition, pre Elf on the Shelf.

My then toddler sister once put the wise men in the Diaper Genie. Fortunately they were plastic.

[Anonymous]

My cat eats the tinsel and then pukes it up next to the tree for everyone to find / walk in.

She is 10 but yes she also attempts to climb it.

[Anonymous]

My cat sits on the chair next to the (fake) Christmas tree, and stares while slow blinking at it. It's adorable.

[Anonymous]

All of my sheep from my manger scene are legless, because they were passed down by a relative with a cat who used them as toys.

When I was a kid, our tree got taken down twice by an especially feisty cat.

We currently have $600 of fancy plexiglass gates around our tree because of a rascally dog who really would like the inspect and steal everything. Our old dog liked to sleep under the tree so I guess we had it coming.