How to have a Christmas tree and a cat at the same time?
Hello friends, today I am not writing with much encouragement but in spite of everything I want to see the funny side to the misfortunes that happen to me, it is not something so serious, but I thought it would be easier to deal with it, the time of the year that I like the most is coming, Christmas and one of the activities that I enjoy the most is to put up the Christmas tree, in my country we usually put it up long before Christmas and in my case I wait until November 16th to put up our tree, but this year there is a difference and it is our first Christmas with a pet at home, Tommy has been with us for a few months now and it has been amazing to have his company, although on the other hand we have lived some moments of anguish in different occasions, for example his obsession to climb on the windows and us living in a 14th floor, luckily nothing has happened to him, he has known how to calculate his jump, but since I saw him for the first time doing that, I have been very careful, I literally live watching him almost all day and I tell him he can NOT do that, he is very smart and understands when he is scolded and well, now we also have to deal with the problem of living with a cat trying to destroy the Christmas tree, Tommy has been baptized from now as Tommy The grinch.
The first day I put up the tree, Tommy was quiet, curious but quite calm, he even fell asleep next to it without any problem, I was very happy because it was very nice despite being an old tree which is almost getting bald HAHAHA, but I did the best I could to make it look nice, that day I finished so tired and at night I saw the first symptoms of schizophrenia in my cat, he started to ride and knock down the Christmas balls, I scolded him several times and he left but after a while he came back and did exactly the same thing.
So little by little he was making my tree uglier and uglier.
And my tree no longer looked symmetrical, it seemed to be more on one side than the other, coincidentally it was always the side where Tommy was perched hmmm...
I lost count of how many times I picked up balls from the floor in addition to re-arranging the lights and decorations, so all these days, I haven't even slept well, because I woke up to the sound of Christmas balls falling and Tommy dragging them all over the place, so today I made a decision.
¿Como evitar que tu gato dañe tu arbol de navidad?
How to prevent your cat from damaging your Christmas tree?
My decision comes together with this question, and I tell you that at least in my experience there is nothing that calms the cats so they do not knock down the Christmas tree hahaha, I even tried to educate myself by watching some videos and comments on the internet and none of that worked, Tommy is increasingly obsessed with the tree, but he is smart and only takes advantage of a carelessness of us to mount, when we are near him he behaves very innocent, I am really stressed out and I am exhausted from fixing the tree, so today I decided to change everything, I took my tree and started to take it apart, I was shocked when I saw all the damage that my poor tree had, I had not detailed it closely and when I took it apart I saw all the mess, he bites a lot of leaves and also broke some balls, the lights were in the back all fallen and tangled, I do not even want to imagine all that this kitten did with the tree while we were sleeping.
Es una solución que es bastante molesta pero prefiero eso a tener que armarlo todos los días o a levantarme de la cama con un infarto escuchando a Tommy jugar con los adornos, por suerte mi árbol es pequeño, asi que no pesa mucho, solo tengo que tratar de cargarlo cuidadosamente para que no se me resbale.
But my decision to dismantle the tree doesn't mean that I won't have Christmas in my home, on the contrary, I wanted to redo it from scratch, leaving the lights more towards the center of the tree and practically tying them very well between branches to make it difficult to move, besides placing the ornaments in a way more difficult to tear off, but, of course, this doesn't guarantee me that Tommy will do his thing while we sleep, so as long as it's Christmas, I'll take my tree every night, unplug it and put it in a room we have unoccupied, close the door until the next day and in the morning when I wake up I'll put it back up and plug it in.
Sound absurd? YES
Bad idea? I don't think so.
It's a solution that is quite annoying but I prefer that to having to put it together every day or getting out of bed with a heart attack listening to Tommy playing with the ornaments, luckily my tree is small so it doesn't weigh much, I just have to try to carry it carefully so it doesn't slip.
¡Hasta luego!
The good thing about all this is that I put my tree back together and I feel that it is nicer than the first one, I tried to fix the branches that Tommy bent as much as I could.
Of course there are less stressful options than the one I took, for example, putting a tree that goes against the wall, making trees with different materials and so on, but I really like my old fashioned Christmas tree, so every day I will have to meet this new challenge to maintain my mental health and the good relationship with Tommy that was already getting a little rough because of the tree hahahaha, but I still love him and I understand that he can't help touching so many shiny and hanging things, anyway, wish me luck.
See you later!
My cat broke the branches below the tree last year with its weight. It is a tree that has a lot of time at home, so I go easily.
I feel that they get excited a lot. It is like having an exterior tree inside the house, which is an adventure for them. In my house there are trees, my cats are always playing and jumping around.
With respect to the windows. Cats are very intelligent, they know how to land, and a lot of things. However, you have to be aware, they do not know the damage that is caused in the impacts during their kittens.
True, I hadn't thought about it that way, maybe they feel some nature at home, I should buy him his own mini Christmas tree 😍.
Yes, the window thing is an issue that worries me a lot, but I am always aware and when we sleep we close all the windows, I'm waiting to get out of some shopping I have pending to start putting security screens on the windows and thus be a little more protected 🐱
Esta publicación me hizo el día, casualmente hoy estaba pensando como iba a armar el arbolito de navidad con el terrible de mi gato en casa 🤣. Lo importante es que haya alegría en el hogar durante las celebraciones, ya del resto las decoraciones están de sobra. Saludos!