Training your cat to train you for the holidays

Hanging the stocking with care in hope the cat will not
interfere. With the twinkling of lights from the fresh cut tree,
in hopes that the cat will sit by the sill. When what to the
cats wondering eyes must appear the Moon glowing down on the
glitter, tensile, and fancy shiny bulbs for the tree. Oh, the
cat is watching it all, and taking it in, with one great big
leap that is the end.

So is this the story for you every Christmas, You take all the
time and preparation to have that perfect Christmas tree with
all the trimming the room. You go to bed and next thing you know
there is a disaster in the living room where the tree was
standing, socks were hung on the fire place, and everything on
the mantel is now on the floor.

Training a cat not to do this is going to be a bigger challenge
than what you were thinking of. This is why we need to train our
self has to put Christmas up with the cat in mind.

Start by letting the cat enjoy the holidays with you. A present,
its own things to play with that is shinny and resembles the
things on the tree. Few things to remember is the tree is fresh
cut have a pine scent that somewhat resembles the catnip. So
now, kitty is in trig with the tree because of the smell and
freshness of it.

The pretty poinsettia that you have sitting next to the
fireplace that looks so lovely, and are very poisonous. Kitty
eats any they will be very ill if not die from poinsettia
plants.

Treat the cat during holiday time; make a small sample of food
off the table. Once or twice, a year for the holidays will not
spoil the cat. Does the cat have a stocking, make one for your
cat, and put catnip in the stocking. Catnip does come in sprays
and you could spray it with that, this way they may not be
wanting to touch yours hanging on the fireplace or wall.

Make sure kitty has plenty of water so that you don’t find him
under the tree drinking the water another thing that can be done
if you have a real tree is fill it with the water and put
plastic over the top so that kitty is not right exposed to it.
Once you have that a nice tree skirt over the water holder to
the trunk will also help to keep your cat from wanting to drink
the water.

There a chemical out on the market to help preserve the tree
for the holidays, but they will not preserve you cat. These
chemicals can harm your cat, or even cause death. Most the time
put the tree up keep it watered everyday and can add couple of
aspirin to the water to help the life of the tree.

Make decorations for your cat and hang them near his play area
so that he can find them and play with them instead of the ones
on the tree. Do not hang pretty expensive decorations on the
tree or near the bottom, this will get kitty to wanting to sit
and play with them dangling from the tree.

Have the lights on only when you are present to help kitty to
remember they are really to look at and not to play with. Cats
are not really concern that the lights run on electricity this
can be a real hazard for your cat.

If your cat is really in trig with the blinking lights, on the
market they have a lot of flashing items during the holidays
that do run on batteries and are kid safe, depending on the item
it can be cat safe. Check the item over carefully before giving
it to kitty. However, a blinking lights or light could be an
answer to the lights on the tree.

Spending time with your cat a couple times a day for good
healthy exercise and games will give the cat the exercise and
play time that they need to help sleep while you are tending to
holiday things.