Cats and tree help

[momofsixangels]

How do you stop them from knocking over a Christmas tree????

[heidi_val]

When I had a cat, I'd have a spray bottle filled with water and when she went to go near it, I'd squirt her 

[momofsixangels]

I have tried and it doesnt work.

[MrsDavid]

Squirt bottle.

Mine now just sits under the tree like a present.

 

[kyledavidsmom]

 As weird as it may sound. My cat loves water so spraying dont work. Any one got any other ideals.

[iHEAVENn]

Your cat knocks over the tree?

We had a tiny 3 foot tree the first year we had our first kitty.. (PuppyCat) she never knocked it over.. just tried to eat the ornaments lol.

Last year we had a regular sized tree... and both cats (puppycat and Brii) never tried to knock it over.. they just drank all the water out of the tree bowl lol.

[Mickandy]

We are going to tie our tree up this year. Using some veggie twine wrap around the middle of the tree and put both ends around a nail or hook. I have 1 baby who stays out of nothing, and 2 cats who are onry! You could even use holiday colored yarn!

[maggie13]

One year at my parents, the cats decided to climb the tree. It came crashing down. They then used rope and bolted it behind the tree to the baseboards.

I had a new cat and she tried to do it but I did not use water to get her away. I filled a jar half-way with dried pinto beans and put a lid on. I shook the thing everytime she got near the tree. It freaked her out. I also made sure that she had plenty of catnip toys to keep her from trying to play with the ornaments.

You can also try getting a bottle of repellant -the kind to keep cats off furniture. I hear that most dogs and cats do not like the smell of citrus (lemons or oranges) so you could but them hanging from the bottom of the tree or even a citrus smelling car air freshner at the bottom limbs to see if that will work.

Good luck!

[sunshine86912]

what about that spray stuff that keeps them from clawing stuff up? 

[miraclebabymine]

I had this problem one year when my cats were young. I would wake up to a downed tree, broken ornaments, and a "not me" expression on their face. I caught them sleeping in the branches!! So I tied the tree to the wall with string. I just wrapped some twine around the inside of the tree at 3 different places and tied each side of the twine to the wall behind the tree. After a couple years of that they finally stopped messing with the tree. Or if they are scared of sudden noises, you might find some motion detection thing that would move/make noise when they jumped near the tree. It's tough trying to outsmart a cat! At halloween, I found out our cats were super scared of a latex black cat with arched back we had gotten for decoration..lol..so I put it wherever I didn't want them to go and it worked like a charm! lol.