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[indysteel]

Help! Why is the picture so big and why is it attached as a thumbnail, too? I knew I should have waited for DH to help me!

[Catrin]

Awwwww, she is just adorable and looks SO much like your avatar! She is the spitting image of your beloved Henry (if I remember the name correctly).

[indysteel]

Awwwww, she is just adorable and looks SO much like your avatar! She is the spitting image of your beloved Henry (if I remember the name correctly).

Thanks! Henry is my avatar. He's bigger and more of a buff color. Izzy is more orange and has a perma-kitten quality about her. Personality-wise, Izzy is a trouble maker, while Henry is a love bug.

[Becky]

That is an excellent photo, Indy!

[bmccasland]

Just want to you know that y'all are scaring me. Chloe is 7-8 mo old..
Still debating whether or not a tree will go up at my house. It is artificial, with lights, so maybe I'll start with just the tree...

[VeganBikeChick]

Indy, I love that photo of Izzy! That'd be an awesome Xmas card

[indysteel]

Just want to you know that y'all are scaring me. Chloe is 7-8 mo old..
Still debating whether or not a tree will go up at my house. It is artificial, with lights, so maybe I'll start with just the tree...

We put our tree up last year when Izzy was about that age and she didn't bother the tree at all. Again, it was the tree skirt that she fixated on, although we did make sure to hang breakables up high and tightly secure any hooks. We also kept a spray bottle of water handy to squirt her if she did mess with the tree itself.

[marni]

we are used to keeping the lower third of the tree bare of everything but lights and don't mind putting down several layers of tree skirts (tablecloths and colored sheets) for the kitties to play in on and under, they love lurking underneath, especially if there are prezzies to leap over around or "accidentally" knock out to skid across the hard wood floor, as they jump out and attack passing ankles, and small dogs. Poor
Weena the corgie was so terrorized last year that she avoided coming into the front room until the tree was gone, and after we took it out, the cats were terribly irritated.

Fun times.

marni

[colby]

we are used to keeping the lower third of the tree bare of everything but lights and don't mind putting down several layers of tree skirts (tablecloths and colored sheets) for the kitties to play in on and under, they love lurking underneath, especially if there are prezzies to leap over around or "accidentally" knock out to skid across the hard wood floor, as they jump out and attack passing ankles, and small dogs. Poor
Weena the corgie was so terrorized last year that she avoided coming into the front room until the tree was gone, and after we took it out, the cats were terribly irritated.

We do the same thing - we hang "cat things" at the bottom of the tree (ornaments that can't be damaged and we don't mind them playing with - bells on strings, etc) and anything that shouldn't be touched farther up. We have an artificial tree, when we had cats and a real tree the troublemakers would climb up the middle; you can't predict that until you have seen it, though, the cats I would EXPECT to do that weren't the ones doing it. We also have to move their cat tree away from the tree-tree (cat tree is 6ft, tree is 7ft) so they don't dangle off the edge of it to mess with stuff.

They do love to snuggle on the tree skirt.


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