I say stick the tree up and hope for the best

I don't even need to play that vid ducks..  I have seen it... 

and I can tell you that Simon's cat is an angel compared to the feline devil incarnate we have adopted into our household... 

our kitten gets herself stuck ONTOP OF OUR CURTAIN RAILS!!!

she ran up MrD to get up there the other day..   

I did laugh 

plus...   she has a particular love of chewing electrical wires...  

I have caught her sitting there sucking on the end of my phone charger...  with it plugged in... on numerous occasions...   

I am convinced she is Nokia compliant & is recharging her naughty batteries 

put the tree in the room undecorated for a while and see what she does - then gradually decorate it over a few hours - do NOT put tinsel on the tree - if eaten it messes with the digestive system really badly  

have a spray bottle or water pistol ready  and when she does something you dont want her to do spray a little in her direction not necessarily on or at her in the first instance [ you could actually point the spray but make a hissing noise  ] with a sharp no !!   it might just curb her ways a little if she realises the spray relates to her bugging you

my friend has a parrot and that is the only way she controlled it - everytime it tried to dominate a conversation or wanted attention she sprayed the parrot till it got the message - she then used it on the cats 

What Mrs H said.

It can be done Ditty - cats can be taught - eventually they get the message. I have had cats, kittens and xmas trees over the years and have just been firm and said no a lot. An occasional tap on the nose works too because that is how the mother cat admonishes her kittens - it doesn't have to be hard but it makes them stop what they are doing.

Distraction works as well - get her a little piece of tinsel of her very own and every time she attacks the tree, distract her with that.

I saw this and thought of you, Ditty.

I think we must have an exceptionally naughty kitten... 

I've tried the no's, the spraying..   the water squirting thing (only used a plant spray.. the one we used to use on the dog...    the kitten doesn't care...   short of getting one of those big pump action super soakers & blasting her away I don't think the water thing is gonna help with this one)

Our tree is a fibre optic..    even without decorations there is the wire..     god she does love to chew on a wire..  

She's probably saving us a fortune on leccy cos we have to switch everything off at the socket unless actually using it...   in case she decides to go for a sneaky chew.

Don't get me wrong..    she is lovely.    Just when I have had enough of her shenanigans, she does something very very cute or loving.. just in the nick of time.

I am not putting a tree up..     there is another reason why not..      AJ (my dog) is still not well, so the place we normally put the tree is currently taken up with his crate (he was on crate rest for 3 weeks....  that's over now...   but he still uses it as his kitten free sanctuary). 

Anyways... back to the baaaad kitteh..      my twinkley indoor window lights are out... she'd go for them.. and the wires..     tree is out..     tinsel round the banister is out.

Its looking like its going to be a bit of tinsel round the mirror over the mantlepeice & thats it 

Thank you though..   I do appreciate your suggestions xx

Ive got it, by Jove ive got it!!!!

I think everyone that owns a cat, needs to go through the christmas tree experience.  You'll laugh about it when Christmas is over 

THAT'S THE ANSWER!!!!!   

*prints out & shoves pic at MrD along with his Black & Decker workmate* 

Nooo..   noooo..    I really won't 

I like Gypsie's suggestion!

Might not be a bad idea to let it go this year, Ditty, and then try again next year.

oh... I really am gonna "let it go" this year Lori..    I decided that weeks ago.    Its just sitting here, & reading about how christmassy other people feel in their decked out front rooms..    & imagining Christmas day here..     I think we need something to give it that crimbo buzz.

I am gonna go with the tinsel round the mirror & wall lights..    and I have some twinkly lights that I used to put up at the window in the living room.   thats now  no no (its that window that I keep having to rescue her from the curtain rail )   but I have had a brainwave..   I am gonna put them up over the double doors that lead from the living room to the dining room..     that will work..   cos they will plug in behind the telly with all the other plug in things - which is the strictest No Cat Zone in the house (apart from the fridge..     the little sod keeps sneaking into the fridge when people open the door...    we have opened the door on numerous occaisions to see her sitting there looking at us with a gormless look on her face)

Since I've had the kittens, I had a birthday, come back from hospital and people have started sendind me christmas cards. NONE of it can be displayed because the devils on horsebacks mow everything down, friends ask me how they discover this as 'new' stuff, but they do. It all goes under books on my book case and I STILL have to shout at them to get off there. It's totally uncanny.

O/T  Cologne, I hope your arm is getting better.

Thanks yogi. . It's a hard slog, but I can feel a slight improvement and can type (very slowly) which makes life much easier because I can come back on here on occasions.

For Ditty and cologne. ^^

Glad to hear you are on the mend Cologne x

Lori..  

Glad there has been some improvement and glad to have you back, you have been missed.

Well Hugo the Bengal has been okay with the tree(so far) he did have a paw and nibble at the branches a few times but  I just sprinkled him with water from a jug and he got the message to leave it alone.He got his claws trimmed at the vet on Monday,Bengals have really long strong claws,so he is now Bawless and clawless. He weighs 6 kilos but he's pure muscle however the vet stated that was his maximum weight.He was one in November.