What do you mean “you can’t have nice things”? There’s a cat, if that’s not a nice thing then idk what is.

We switched to a real tree about 10 years ago. We had both a real tree and an artifical tree set up one year, and the cats only ever climbed the artifical tree - never the real tree. So, since then, I’ve been telling people to get real trees instead, cats don’t climb them.

Well. A few days ago, I was in tree kitchen prepping food for the dog, when I heard a crash from the living room. I looked over, and one of our tuxedos, named Inky, was walking out of the living room. I went that way, and he scampered off. In the living room, I didn’t see anything amiss… At first. Later, from a different angle, I realized the tree was moved a foot or so and there was water on the floor.

I think Inky climbed the tree, it started to fall over, he fell or jumped out, and the tree rocked back down to the floor in a different position. It must have been pretty close to toppling, but fortunately we bought a pretty heavy stand that saved it.

He hasn’t tried it since, or if he did, he’s been more careful.

I still love him though. I have several amusing pictures of cats in trees from back then, I should post them. We wouldn’t even be done setting it up and there’d be a cat in it.

There’s definitely 40% cat in this picture. But where does it start and end? Is that an eye? An ear? Can’t make heads or tails of it.

And yet you wouldn’t change it at all.