Any advice on how to keep my kitten out of the christmas tree as he is wrecking it. He keeps climbing up the inside and when I try to get him out he scratches my hands ..Help!!!

I would just admit defeat & put it away

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All my children have paws!

But I love the tree and christmas isn't christmas without a tree for kids. I have been spraying him with water and at the oment he is shut out !

I bought a cheap small fibre optic xmas tree. It's not the same as a decent sized one, but at least I have a tree of sorts. Plus it's battery operated so no cables to munch. Small ginger blob still plays with it, but can't cause any damage.

I never even bothered with baubles, they're all over the flat courtesy of said ginger blob.

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MY FAMILY

Caramel (ginger girl) Harry (oldest son) Nick (Youngest son)

We always have a real Christmas tree and I was upset this year thinking that, with what Kitty and Oscar have done to my houseplants, we wouldn't be able to have a tree.

Then my lovely, lovely mum bought me a pretty, very modern John Lewis artificial one!!!

They look at it a lot and have had the occasional bat of the lowest baubles but, touch wood, they haven't tried to climb it and it's survived 48 hours totally unscathed.

I've never had anything quite so "modern art" before but I love it

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Harry: Ginger & White b. September 2002
Oscar: Black b. 7th May 2011
Kitty: Grey Tabby b. 7th May 2011

Our lovely cat family

I love Christmas too, but this year, as my cats are fiesty and curious 10 month old Juniors I decided not to get a tree. I knew they would attempt to climb it, or get needles stuck in their paws AND try and catch tinsel and baubles.

I have therefore;

Put tinsel all over our big paintings and photographs
Put the IKEA star lights across the archway
Taped our fairy lights to the ceiling like a grotto
Hung a few decorations high up off shelves
Put a wooden Christmas tree in the middle of the dining table. It usually holds tea lights but I have put satsumas in the holders instead.
Took a small railway track from my son and put the track around the tree. All presents will be stacked behind the tree as it is too small for them to be under the tree.

It looks magical and the cats seemed to like it too.

A bit of creativity, and you can still get a safe and magical Christmas

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All my children have paws!

That's really lovely

I wonder what it will go for!

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Harry: Ginger & White b. September 2002
Oscar: Black b. 7th May 2011
Kitty: Grey Tabby b. 7th May 2011

Our lovely cat family

No tree here either,no kids mind you...just big ones.I couldnt be bothered with the worry and hassle.A trip to A&E or emergency vet is not top of my Christmas list so will have to improvise

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