Christmas cat

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:02 am

We finally got the tree up last night . This morning my wife went downstairs to see what all the the noise was when this gray head popped out of the tree about half way up .

Dang Cat!!!!!

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:41 am

I hope this isn't the Christmas cat. According to Icelandic folklore, the Christmas (or Yule) cat eats children who don't get new garments for Christmas.

Perhaps you should get your children a pair of socks just in case.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:04 pm

I'm reportinging you to the SPCA!!!

TTUI (Trimming the Tree Under the Influence and using your cat as an ornament... )

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:17 pm

finnbogi wrote:I hope this isn't the Christmas cat. According to Icelandic folklore, the Christmas (or Yule) cat eats children who don't get new garments for Christmas.

Perhaps you should get your children a pair of socks just in case.

Or maybe not (have they been naughty or nice?) ...

Philip Jensen · Post by **Philip Jensen** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:15 pm

We adopted a rescue cat last winter and this will be his first Chrsitmas tree (we think). Our other 2 cats already know the routine and pretty much leave the tree alone. Still, we don't put any breakable ornaments within paw reach. Our plan for the uninitiated cat is to first put the tree in its stand (still tied up) and let is sit there for two days, then untie it and let it set for two days, then put the lights on and wait a couple days, and THEN after a week or so, put some ornaments on.

Our oldest cat gets VERY excited when the tree comes in because she knows what is coming next. She gets really excited when the model train comes out. As I'm assembling the oval (sometimes an oval in an oval with switches) she is right there closely supervising my progress.

When I bought the train (HO gauge) I had visions of running several cars around. That lasted one year. Now I just run the engine - until she knocks it off the track. Not an all out tackle of the engine, she prefers to hide behind something/anything and the pounce out and make a passing swipe at it as she runs by. Our 3 yr old cat has also picked up this game much to the chagrin of the older one who would prefer to have the train to herself.

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:18 pm

I don't know if it will eat the children but it did kill a couple of "vicious" ornaments while in the tree.

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:29 pm

Ah, yes, the Tree Cat. I have fond? memories of evidence of previous soccer games played with used-to-be-one-piece-glass ornaments. I learned to put barbell weights on the legs of the tree stand, and to screw it really tight into the trunk; and to not put any of those multicolored glass soccer balls on the bottom limbs.

MA

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:16 pm

Philip Jensen wrote:We adopted a rescue cat last winter

Hmmmm... 'rescue cat' conjures up an image of a little furry beast with a little keg of brandy hanging from his collar.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:20 pm

TubaTinker wrote:Hmmmm... 'rescue cat' conjures up an image of a little furry beast with a little keg of brandy hanging from his collar.

That would be a Saint Siamese...