Pikko Pots wrote:
The hubby is making loud grunts and grumpy faces whenever I cheerfully suggest we go out and get another tree before ALL the short ones are gone, so I'd been hoping that we could just keep this one a little longer since it wasn't really brown yet. ...
We broke down and got a fake plastic tree (que Radiohead) because the cats would eat the real one and vomit it up every morning. However, we decide to test the cats first to see if they will eat the fake plastic pine needles. We get a fake plastic wreath and leave it out to be nosed, sniffed, and potentially consumed for a couple days. Nothin. Not a nibble.
We trundle off to various shops and eventually settle on a nice four meter tall tree. We drag the beast in, we set it up. We plug it in - it is glorious and tall and we can fill it with all or ornaments and sit about it and bask in it's fake plastic glory.
Next morning, a pile of kitty vomit, replete with fake plastic pine needles.
It's the damn tree shape! They only eat from below. However, whichever cat did it learned pretty quick and only vomited a couple times. This year (year two of fake tree 1.0) somehow he forgot and it took him a couple more vomits to figure it out.
However, our giant doggie (great dane) has decided the tree is a great place to rub her face. (All the danes I've known love to rub their faces against a hand or the couch or a chair back - and they love having their faces touched in general. Especially their eyes.) Good thing it is large, otherwise it would be sideways.