Thread: Christmas Trees, Decorations and Presents

Tee hee I am now rather Proud of my thug (oops Buddy) .... Oooh Jackie Shimba was obviously led astray ... (Welly come to Yarmouth) xxx

So far apart from a quick sniff at a couple of ornaments Hector & Roxy have not bothered with the tree, okay Roxy likes to lie under it and also keeps having a quick lick(!) the lights going up the stairs I have another problem, I have had to rearrange the ornaments out of busy little fingers reach as there is nothing I can block it off with when my little darling is in his walker..............x

Maya's new toy, The Golden Ornament.

She runs under the tree when getting chased by her brother, she hears a jingling. She stops in her tracks and observes this golden ball swaying back and forth. She gets on her hind legs (no camera on hand) and starts tapping at it. Every little time she taps the ball, the tree begins to move. Momma calls for her to no avail. She was on a mission. Then daddy comes by and scooches her away. She sees him take the ball and moves it out of her reach. She watches and thinks how she can get to the golden ball. She sees the wire to the lights dangling freely on the bottom. She paws at it....nope it doesn't sway, she paws at it again and leans into the tree. She observes the action of all the other balls.. uhh hah! we have success the ornaments are all swaying. She keeps pawing at the lights until something falls. Then the unmentionable happens.... daddy took her away.
She was never seen again. The End.

So far (and fingers tightly crossed) Rasputin doesn't seem that interested in the tree after having had a good sniff initially... Which is good 'coz it's HUGE.

Here's what our tree looks like Never had ALL the ornaments up so high before. I still have a ton more that didn't make it on the tree. Didn't want the beast to have too many things to break. Moved some down a bit since Whiskey's dive-bomb incident the other day. He hasn't attacked it again so I'm crossing my fingers.

What we did last year to try and save the tree worked a treat so we will do the same this year.

We wrapped up some catnip toys really well and placed them all around the tree. When the little monkeys decided to have a go at the decorations they got sidetracked by the presents. By the time they had finished rolling around on the floor trying to open them they had forgotten all about the tree.

It worked so well our tree remained untouched for the whole time it was up, and that's with 6 coonies around!

Tree is going up now, will report in with any disaster updates, stayed tuned

I heard Welly talking just a while ago & when I checked he was sitting a decent distance from the tree but staring at it & underneath staring upwards sat a certain girl,luckily a nice rattly toy distracted her & big bruv was a "grass" but.... Good luck MickB will check back later.

Tree erected succesfully (with a little help of course)

Cats were starting to get "inquisitive" but we've put the toys from Santa Paws underneath and it's as if the tree wasn't there.

More news at 11

PS Jackie, he's biding his time..just biding his time