A Michael Broad Blog
This is a clever, albeit slightly unattractive method 😒 for deterring either your dog or cat from interfering with the Christmas tree. The ‘genius hack’ as it is described or as I have called it is based on the near universal fear of the dreaded vacuum cleaner by dogs and cats. They associate it …
I recently wrote about stopping your cat climbing the Christmas tree by putting tinfoil around it. When your cat walks on the foil, they dislike the experience so they back off. As they don’t see that you are part of an unpleasant experience, they don’t associate you with it. And therefore, it is an …
There’s 6 reasons why domestic cats like Christmas trees and there might be more depending on what is under and around the tree. Height We all know by now that domestic cats like to move vertically as well as horizontally. They like to climb and technically I would say that they are “semi-arboreal”. This …
You may have heard of them but they need to be publicised in the interests of sanity at Christmas time because the parasol Christmas tree is cat proof (more or less depending on the cat’s commitment). A solution to that perennial problem in the feline household during the festive season when the tree is …
A man living in Johnson City, Tennessee has reportedly been charged after he killed a cat playing with a Christmas tree. The reports don’t tell me if he owned the cat and/or the tree. Court documents have been obtained by an online news media organisation, WCYB, which show that Aaron Duke Rover, 24, has …
Our cats want every day to be Christmas Day because all of a sudden their environment is enriched with that wonderful, large and tall, green toy with bright objects attached: the Christmas tree. It is time to climb it, break some decorations and inadvertently take the tree down which is why the Huff Post …
A woman gleefully videos her tabby cat having fun climbing up a fully decorated 9 foot tall Christmas tree. Guess what happens… Whose fault is it! LOL. I said that most Christmas tree accidents involve and are caused by people. I think this is an example. No one was hurt so it is a …
