How do I keep my cat out of the Christmas Tree?
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 at
2:37 pm
You see, I have a 1 year old cat and a 1 year old German Shepard who work as a "Christmas Tree Destroying Team"—-The cat gets in the tree, knocks off the ornaments and the dog eats the ornaments! Help! How can I keep the cat out of the tree??
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Get out the camera, keep it ready, and try to grab some snapshots of the two of them working together. I’ll bet you could make a ton of money off those, if they were properly marketed.
The truth is, you can keep yourself very busy, shaking cans of coins, spraying squirt guns, clapping hands, etc. As an alternative, you could buy all sorts of stuff that is supposed to smell bad to cats, but is really more offensive to humans. You can spend money on stuff that tastes bad to cats too, but they will just drool it out while they are climbing the tree.
Of course, by the time you have tried all these different strategies, to find out none of them really work, Christmas will be over and the tree will be gone.
Your cat will hate you for squirting it with water, if it doesn’t decide that it likes to play with water, and the dog will be hyperactive from all the sugar in those peppermint canes, but he will have nice smelling breath.
Much easier to anchor the tree, use unbreakable ornaments and ribbon instead of metal hooks, just to keep everyone safe.
put some pepper on the tree, cat hate it!
there is no easy Way out of this Hun other than lock your cat out of the room or repeatedly scare it each time it goes near the tree e.g water pistol. good luck
I agree sprinkle it with pepper.
I remember when I was single I had a tree. I worked 3-11 shift and came home and my cat and dog had taken my tree and disassembled it from one end of the apartment to the other. They must have had a blast!
Cats will avoid smells that they can’t stand, especially sharp strong chemical odors. You might try putting something like mothballs, menthol, window cleaner with ammonia, etc, up inside the tree. Cats have a highly developed sense of smell, so you don’t need to use much – you shouldn’t be able to smell it in the room yourself. Of course you wouldn’t want to use something poisonous like insecticide! Test what works well by having your cat sniff it first. My cat will flee the room if he sees me picking up a jar of mentholated oil (like Vicks vapor rub).
One of my cats goes around at night and opens every drawer and cabinet door in the apartment. He then takes out whatever he finds: socks, DVDs, pens, etc. I started putting some tissues sprinkled with mentholated oil in the drawers and he has stopped. My socks smell nice too
BTW, love the cat-dog teamwork there. LOL
Get him his own.
it could knock the tree down and hurt itself so you probably want a squirt bottle with water and if you happen to catch it give a little mist
There is a product you can buy at Pet Valu called Scat and another called Garden Ghost. Both will scare the sh*t out of both the cat and dog, they will leave your tree alone.
Try a scat mat or a water bottle.