1. Good news: I was able to put together the tree and leave it up.
2. Bad news: I had to lock the kitten in a room so I wouldn’t have to fight him off while assembling it. Seven’s a stubborn little bugger.
3. Good news: The tree is still standing. Considering it’s next to a glass topped coffee table that’s no small thing.
4. Bad news: Two bottom branches have been beaten until they’re skimming the floor. They’re looking pretty sad but he sure is having fun bouncing off them.
5. Good news: I managed to string lights around the thing without tumbling off the stepladder.
6. Bad news: We managed to shoo Seven away from chewing a bulb but I’m 99% convinced one of these days he’ll get his feet tangled in those things and tumble unceremoniously to the floor.
7. Good news: Somehow we actually have enough indestructible and/or randomly inconsequential ornaments to make this tree look pretty enough.
8. Bad news: Seven is very interested in those ornaments. VERY interested. Check out the video on Instagram if you want to see him in ATTACK THE MOOSE mode.
9. Good news: Yesterday we made it to bedtime with tree intact, lights up, and a selection of ornaments hung. It’s a Christmas miracle.
10. Bad news: This year’s tree has some unique characteristics. No ornaments within two feet of the top because Seven’s taken to perching on the tip like a furry angel. No ornaments within two feet of the bottom because Seven tugs and tears and bites at the branches. I guess time will tell if he’ll let the ornaments in between be.
I go back to the words in your last post. Cats haven’t forgotten…….
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Oh no, he’s definitely channeling his inner god. 😆
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Two different cats have knocked over two different trees at two different points in my cat-keeping life. Neither one ever did it again. Just sayin’.
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This is an excellent point. I’m guessing that sort of thing would startle one of their lives right out of them.
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Be suprising if it wouldn’t.
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😀
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I remember the days of kitten in Christmas tree. That was the year I opted for lights and some silk poinsettias as decorations on the tree and nothing else. Seven is personality plus.
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Oh yes, he is WIDE open. When we were first married and needed “filler” ornaments for the tree I bought a big set of one-inch bells — who knew 25 years later they’d make an excellent alarm system for when he’s banging around in the branches. 😆
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Loved the video. Looks like it is Seven’s tree and that is that.
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He feels rather entitled, that’s for sure.
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KITTEN ORNAMENT! lol This is too adorable
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He’s down with that. 🥰
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Seven is so adorable. But, are you sure you didn’t adopt and/or rescue a baby bobcat?
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So funny but that’s why the guy whose wheel well he was hiding in didn’t go after him! They live near woods & in that 4:30am light he wasn’t entirely sure what had just bolted into his garage. 😂
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He IS your ornament. All the love your tree needs.
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Indeed. This one’s also happy to nap on the tree skirt underneath between play sessions.
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Fingers crossed 🤞
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Me too!! 😆
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👍👍👍
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