we wire the tree to the wall and rafters.
Put some tobasco on the low hanging ornament’s.
It may stink for a few hours but it broke my Golden Retriever in no time.
One part Citronella oil to three parts water. Spray low branches - works for about 4 days, and then respray. Can get at Whole Foods.
The story mentions tinsel. We made that terrible mistake one time. We were lucky. The cat was able to pass the tinsel without it strangling his intestines. Well, mostly pass the tinsel. We manually extracted most of the strand from his other end. Tinsel and pets don’t mix.
My son’s first Christmas... he was 7 months old and wanted to do pull ups on the artificial Christmas tree and play with the decorations so I put the tree in his play pen where he couldn’t get at it...
:)
That last one is my tree! It’s not the ornaments she’s after. One of our relatives gives chocolates for presents and a big wire fence keeps our girl out of the presents.
My Labrador Retriever has never messed with the tree, or anything else, for that matter. Best Lab ever. Sweet as can be with everyone. And she retrieves the morning paper from the end of the driveway.
The dogs were never a problem; the parrot, on the other hand...
bfl
Had our first Christmas tree in four years last year as our old diabetic cat, Oslo, passed. It was a 16’ tall tree and was wonderful.
We stopped getting trees as Oslo loved to lay on the tree skirt and our radiant heated wood floors. The diabetes gave him a weak bladder in this specific circumstance...never any other time...
This year we have two new 9+/- kittens/cats (different litters) and one of them is a CLIMBER!
No ‘real’ Christmas tree this year...we do have a Charlie Brown Christmas tree that’s fun to have and Santa is giving us this tree for Christmas:
https://www.stavepuzzles.com/product/seasons-four-all/
Should be fun!