You see, I have a 1 year old cat and a 1 year old German Shepard who work as a "Christmas Tree Destroying Team"----The cat gets in the tree, knocks off the ornaments and the dog eats the ornaments! Help! How can I keep the cat out of the tree??
2006-12-02 13:13:41 · 10 answers · asked by irishjenn79 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
Get out the camera, keep it ready, and try to grab some snapshots of the two of them working together. I'll bet you could make a ton of money off those, if they were properly marketed.
The truth is, you can keep yourself very busy, shaking cans of coins, spraying squirt guns, clapping hands, etc. As an alternative, you could buy all sorts of stuff that is supposed to smell bad to cats, but is really more offensive to humans. You can spend money on stuff that tastes bad to cats too, but they will just drool it out while they are climbing the tree.
Of course, by the time you have tried all these different strategies, to find out none of them really work, Christmas will be over and the tree will be gone.
Your cat will hate you for squirting it with water, if it doesn't decide that it likes to play with water, and the dog will be hyperactive from all the sugar in those peppermint canes, but he will have nice smelling breath.
Much easier to anchor the tree, use unbreakable ornaments and ribbon instead of metal hooks, just to keep everyone safe.
2006-12-02 13:22:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
sturdy for you- we are the masters, right? properly, perhaps the cats do not know that, yet possibly we are able to be a minimum of extra sensible? I study all the solutions, and a lot of of them have been precise- try some. I incredibly have 6 cats and each has desperate whether or not they are fascinated in the Christmas tree. If desperate, they are going to get in it. We first tried putting very jingly adorns on the tree, so as that would alert us to come back shoo them away, yet that have been given stressful in the midst of the nighttime. Later we tried attaching grotesque plastic grocery bags to the decrease limbs, then aluminum foil- all of which they could have had a sturdy snicker at. we've even tried the table right thought- whether that is incredibly akward with a 6 foot tree! Now, years of Christmases later, we firmly base the tree so it would not tip over, positioned breakable/helpful adorns up greater and extra securely linked. we've stepped forward a touch nerve-racking noise to yell while they attempt to teach the tree right into a toy that's some thing like, "Aaaannnn!!" a minimum of it distracts them and makes us think of as quickly as back we are the masters, not the cats. Merry Christmas!
2016-12-13 18:54:25 · answer #2 · answered by keira 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats will avoid smells that they can't stand, especially sharp strong chemical odors. You might try putting something like mothballs, menthol, window cleaner with ammonia, etc, up inside the tree. Cats have a highly developed sense of smell, so you don't need to use much - you shouldn't be able to smell it in the room yourself. Of course you wouldn't want to use something poisonous like insecticide! Test what works well by having your cat sniff it first. My cat will flee the room if he sees me picking up a jar of mentholated oil (like Vicks vapor rub).
One of my cats goes around at night and opens every drawer and cabinet door in the apartment. He then takes out whatever he finds: socks, DVDs, pens, etc. I started putting some tissues sprinkled with mentholated oil in the drawers and he has stopped. My socks smell nice too :)
BTW, love the cat-dog teamwork there. LOL
2006-12-02 13:36:27 · answer #3 · answered by Mahou 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a product you can buy at Pet Valu called Scat and another called Garden Ghost. Both will scare the sh*t out of both the cat and dog, they will leave your tree alone.
2006-12-02 14:23:41 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no easy Way out of this Hun other than lock your cat out of the room or repeatedly scare it each time it goes near the tree e.g water pistol. good luck
2006-12-02 13:19:23 · answer #5 · answered by Hunny Bun... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could knock the tree down and hurt itself so you probably want a squirt bottle with water and if you happen to catch it give a little mist
2006-12-02 13:55:35 · answer #6 · answered by Bean 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
put some pepper on the tree, cat hate it!
2006-12-02 13:17:09 · answer #7 · answered by Gary_Hobson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a scat mat or a water bottle.
2006-12-02 15:23:00 · answer #8 · answered by st_mel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get him his own.
2006-12-02 13:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by robert m 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋