Cats vs. Christmas Decorations

I was just commenting the other day on how in years past our cats had always vandalized the Christmas tree in one way or another.  We have had several who have climbed or attempted to climb any real tree we have ever brought into the house and of course those sparkly ornaments are just too tempting to resist.  

This year, for some inexplicable reason, they haven’t knocked any ornaments off the tree or torn up any packages under it.  They have, however knocked off and broken two candleholders, one red, one green, and today one of them (not sure which one since they were long gone by the time we responded to the loud crash) my cherished German Christmas Pyramid.  Very few things that hit our ceramic flooring survive unscathed and the pyramid which I brought back from Germany in 1990 was no exception.  Probably a little bit of Elmer’s will make it salvageable, but it won’t be the same.

Probably the most abhorrent cat crime would have to be the attack on the baby Jesus from a small ceramic Nativity set that our oldest cat Boo Boo actually tried to eat one year after batting it around the house for awhile.  And of course not a year goes by without one of them yakking on the tree skirt.  Honestly it is not like we neglect the furry criminals at Christmas.  Not only do we get them gifts, they actually have their own Christmas stockings and some of our family members always send gifts for them as well. Perhaps this is just revenge for the ridiculous festive cat collars or the red and green claw covers we have subjected them to.