Cat-friendly Christmas Tree

[galadhir]

One of Daughter's cats - Voidstar, the 1 year old - absolutely loves eating plastic, so preparing for him to visit meant purging as much plastic from the house as possible. We did that over a couple of days, helped by the fact that we had gone not plastic-free, but plastic-minimal, a few years ago, and all that was left was mainly forgotten bags.

But then we got very nervous over the idea of tinsel. Should there be tinsel on the Christmas tree? Would he try to jump up and eat that too?

So we made some white, red and green paper chains to use instead.

When Daughter arrived she told us that Void had not jumped at her tree and had only sniffed the things he could reach, so we decided to have a two part tree. Closer to the floor, where cats could reach, we would have felt fabric ornaments and paper chains which wouldn't harm the cats if they were chewed on. Then above cat distance we would have the metal/glass ornaments and tinsel.

They turned out to be two very different themes which did not really go together, but no chomping or plastic-eating took place, so the main purpose was achieved.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

I like it! I think it looks nice, even if the bits are slightly mismatched. But yay for no cat snacking!

[galadhir]

Thank you! Yes, our tree is generally very chaotic and themeless, so it's not honestly that much worse than normal :) But the cats ignoring it the whole time was perfect.

[mistressofmuses]

I like chaotic and themeless trees, personally. Ours tends to be "wherever the ornaments fit", ha. But hooray for the cats being pretty cooperative as far as it went!