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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / September 2004Helping Mommy Decorate
It's about a month to go until Samhain (that's Hallowe'en to you non-pagans) and that means it's time to break out the decorations! In years past, I could go all out on decor since Smokey isn't interested in anything that 1. isn't soft to sleep on and 2. isn't made of food, and Nocturne has no interest in silly decorations. Such things are beneath her dignity; she prefers to sit enthroned, looking sinister and gothic (she's a rather nice touch to the Samhain decor herself, being a black cat and all). And then we got the bitties. A year later, Kumani /still/ likes to pull the plastic witches off the tinsel ropes and eat them...witches therefore go on apartment door where Kumani cannot get them. She also screams at the hanging decorations, just in case some of those plastic bugs are real. I don't bother putting up spiderwebs any more either, since last year was a month of pulling Tyche out of them....why bother? Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the bottom 1/3, since anything hung there is knocked right off again by bad bitties.... ....to think I thought they'd grow out of this. --Enfilade > It's about a month to go until Samhain (that's Hallowe'en to you > non-pagans) and that means it's time to break out the decorations! Apropos of pagan ritual, has it also been your experience that dogs tend to dance in the circle, while cats tend to get on the altar? > Apropos of pagan ritual, has it also been your experience that dogs tend > to dance in the circle, while cats tend to get on the altar? Well, we've never had dogs... The kittens have no interest whatsoever since I trained them not to get on the altar (it's a bit too full anyway to make a good landing/sleeping place) Smokey is only interested if the cakes and ale is sandwiches Nocturne prefers to "supervise" from either inside the circle, or a nearby chair. Doesn't trust the stoopid hoomans not to summon Cthulu by accident, you see...and if they do, they'll require a cat to take care of the problem before it gets out of hand. :) --Enfilade > Apropos of pagan ritual, has it also been your experience that dogs tend > to dance in the circle, while cats tend to get on the altar? For several years, I've belonged to a small, cat-worshipping circle called the "Bastettes". Live cats are *always* welcome on our altars! :) My permanent altar at home is used as a jumping-off place for cats who want to get up onto the top of the bookcase next to it. And Licorice likes to check out the small items on the altar and occasionally relocate an item or two to other places in the apartment (or possibly to a private stash someplace, until he's ready to deliver it back to me later). Joyce ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the >bottom 1/3, since anything hung there is knocked right off again by >bad bitties.... ---------------------<snip>---------------------- When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years, Misty, and the rest of the house, it took five minutes to realize that we'd never have a decorated Christmas tree again. The first thing she did was head straight for the tree, the second was to start eating a piece of tinsel, and the third was to hide under the couch. By the time I got her out, I had to retrieve twelve inches of a tinsel strand from the mouth, throat, and intestines of an uncooperative cat. It's a good thing we had bought the eighteen inch size tinsel. Now our Yule tree goes on the porch.  SignatureRegards and Purrs, O J > When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined > to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Now our Yule tree goes on the porch. Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years since we had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* as destructive as Sammy). Sigh. I love decorating my Christmas tree. Sigh. Well I guess you sadists are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't you, well, aren't you??!!! ;> Hugs, CatNipped ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >Sigh. I love decorating my Christmas tree. Sigh. Well I guess you sadists >are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't you, well, >aren't you??!!! ;> Oh, we'd just *love* to hear about that one. Do you have enough nerve? Just imagine -- trying to go to sleep while listening for that big CRASH in the dark Heh heh heh, O J > Oh, we'd just *love* to hear about that one. Do you have enough > nerve? Just imagine -- trying to go to sleep while listening for that > big CRASH in the dark > > Heh heh heh, > O J Yep, trying to decorate a tree with Sammy "helping" will probably be very interesting - I guess I should go and invest in lots of plastic ornaments. Nope about the crashing tree. I had a solution to that last year (Jessie may not be as destructive as a kitten, but she dearly loves to climb trees). I got a 3'x3'x3' cardboard filled with books that still weren't unpacked from our move to the new house. I taped this securely shut with duct tape. [A box of books is about the heaviest thing I know of!!] Then I used almost a whole roll of duct tape to tape the metal tree stand (the kind with the screws that screw into the bottom of the tree trunk - screwed down *really* tightly) to the top of the box. Then I just draped a very large Christmas tree "skirt" around the whole thing. You couldn't push that thing over with a forklift!!! Another benefit was that there was *plenty* of room "under" the tree for lots and lots of grandbaby presents!! ;> Hugs, CatNipped > Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years since we > had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* as destructive [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't you, well, > aren't you??!!! ;> Yes, indeed, we are. :oD SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki I wonder if I will ever use my German handblown glass ornaments again. Yes, invest in plastic and cloth ornaments. It saves a lot of grief. Smokey is afraid of the Yule tree. Trees come from Outside. Outside is the bad place where kitties don't get fed. Even though it is a plastic tree, Smokey wants nothing to do with it. Nocturne is vaguely curious about garland and curses these undignifiend instincts. But the bitties....oh, the bitties....up the tree and swat the ornaments! Up the tree and swat the ornaments! They didn't tip it over last year...maybe they weren't heavy enough...but this year, they're much larger and no more settled down than last year. --Fil > > When we were introducing our new Lady Jane Grey, who had been confined > > to one of the spare bedrooms for a week, to our cat of some years, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > CatNipped Oh, yeah. Plenty of room in the new Catnipped folder! Can't wait. Sam > Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years > since we had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > sadists are eagerly awaiting "Decorating the Tree with Mommy", aren't > you, well, aren't you??!!! ;> No, No, No, No, ....... Well yes really. :-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >> Oh. My. Word. Christmas tree!!!! I forgot - it's been 5 years >> since we had a kitten in the house (and a kitten that wasn't *nearly* [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > No, No, No, No, ....... Well yes really. :-) ROTFLMAO! Yeah, I thought so!!! ;> Hugs, CatNipped > ---------------------<snip>---------------------- > >Let's not get started on the Yule tree which is utterly barren in the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Now our Yule tree goes on the porch. My ex and I argued whether or not to have a Yule tree in the house. We generally agreed that Clifford (RB) would attempt to climb any interesting new object, especially with interesting climbing features. It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately, Yule trees are flexible, increasingly so as the trunk thins. With 16 or so pounds of muscular cat at the top, I had every confidence that the tree would bend with his weight and do one of the following: 1. Fall over. 2. Break 3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult. > It would have been one thing if, to borrow Christian symbolism, he were > content merely to be the Cat of Bethlehem at the peak. Unfortunately, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 2. Break > 3. Bend, and then become a cat-a-pult. LOL! I think Sammy would love that ride!!! Hugs, CatNipped
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