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.

Bound to happen occasionally

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.

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

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!

I hoped this too & you are quite right