British Expats - Artificial Xmas trees?

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Chookie

Dec 8th 2009 6:16 am

Re: Artificial Xmas trees?

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8156868)

knowing my idiot cats you have better not put tinsely garland on the tree anyway.... it can do horrible things to them, and looks none too festive coming out again out of either end:eek:

This is actually very good advice!

That lametta (sp?) type stuff, the stuff that is long silvery strings is actually very dangerous for cats or any other animal that decideds to eat it. It is sharp edged, and long and if it gets inside them, it can cut them to ribbons inside. and because it is long and dangly cats seem to love to play with it.

My parents had to have one cat put down because it decided to eat the stuff.

iaink

Dec 8th 2009 6:19 am

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Originally Posted by Chookie (Post 8156889)

This is actually very good advice!

Bound to happen occasionally:lol:

Souvy

Dec 8th 2009 6:34 am

Re: Artificial Xmas trees?

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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 8156868)

knowing my idiot cats you have better not put tinsely garland on the tree anyway.... it can do horrible things to them, and looks none too festive coming out of either end again :eek:

My little bundle of joy is rapidly changing the appearance of our tree. It has far fewer baubles than it did and I have no idea where they have gone. She clearly has a hiding place for stuff.

Chookie

Dec 8th 2009 8:25 am

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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8156939)

My little bundle of joy is rapidly changing the appearance of our tree. It has far fewer baubles than it did and I have no idea where they have gone. She clearly has a hiding place for stuff.

Mine has decided that the quilted fabric ornaments I made years ago are actually a strange shaped variant of toy mice...

She keeps taking them off and playing with them, then hides them in the corners where she hides her mice.

HurricaneHayles

Dec 8th 2009 2:50 pm

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Yeah - already bypassed tinsel ;) Never had any previous and won't whilst cats are around.

Chookie

Dec 8th 2009 3:16 pm

Re: Artificial Xmas trees?

I have rather nifty red and green strings of wooden beads in place of the tinsel (cheap from Canadian Tire fwisw).

Dont go down the strings of popcorn btw - some cats like it and will climb the tree to eat it (as I discoverd to my cost with one cat when we lived in the UK)... a cat choking on the string you threaded the popcorn on is not a pretty sight!

Bali2010

Dec 9th 2009 7:52 am

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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8156390)

You think a cat will leave a fake tree alone? Think again.

I hoped this too & you are quite right:rofl::rofl:

tracys

Dec 10th 2009 6:47 am

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8151481)

No, that's called Christmas.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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