Oh WOW!!! These 2 are great! Between these 2 I can figure out what I need to do.
I have 3 furbabies that are destructo on Chr*stmas stuff. No trees any more, real or fake. And they chew off the ribbons on packages which isn't good for them. Sigh! I love decorations, trees and bows!!!!!! Last year I made some fabric trees for the mantle which they didn't touch...YaY!!!!!!! But the packages look like real duds without the bows. So this year I thought I'd try some reuseable paperbag type shapes made of fabric with casings for ribbons SEWN in to tie them together. Eventually the ribbons will get that homey chewed look, but at least they won't be eating them. Have some darling Chr8stmas fabrics that go with the fabric trees and I think things will start looking festive again...one way to FOOL a cat....
"It's bad to supress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
Posts: 7486 | Location: California | Registered: Sep 02, 2003
Originally posted by nancyc20: I have 3 furbabies that are destructo on Chr*stmas stuff. No trees any more, real or fake.
I'm in the same boat. I thought one year that I could get away with one of those ceramic trees with all the holes drilled for the plastic lights...except I found the plastic star on top chewed (one point totally removed), and then I started seeing the little lights on the floor instead of in the tree... "WRECK THE HALLS" -- my cats' Christmas motto!!
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Gee, if we had a play date with both sets of the kids we could totally demolish the room!!!!
I'd paste up sime pictures of decorations, but they all like to play with crinkled paper and tear it. Biscuit like credit card sizes and drops thm in water (water dish, sink, cup of tea, toliet ) and fish them out. And sometimes he drops stuff in the trash cans. I've found mail,forks, dishes, bills, MONEY, books, and toys in there... but my heart melts like butter when he puts a toy mouse on my pillow.
sigh...
"It's bad to supress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
Posts: 7486 | Location: California | Registered: Sep 02, 2003
The feline I have now has never messed with my Xmas decorations but my last one loved all things that moved and glittered. I think this one believes it is beneath her to do such childish acts. She'd rather shred plastic bags.
Now my dog on the other hand 'loves' presents. Our first Xmas, she managed to find two gift cards inside cardboard sleeves, inside boxes, inside a shipping box. Fortunately, there was enough left of them that the stores accepted them.
My first cat was trained to a white towel. Wherever the towel went, she went. I discovered this when I thought maybe I should cover the whole dofa with a sheet. Well, she traversed the whole thing! So I went back to a towel and she stayed put. She treated the Chr*stmas tree as an opportunity to lie under it like ET with the other toys and look beautiful for portraits.
SO... when the other cats came along after she went to kitty heaven, I ASSUMED they would all be like her.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Once when I worked at the bank, a guy came in and was screaming at me to return his money his dogs had dug up (phewwwwwww) and eaten 1/2 of. mmmmmmmmm to provide that, the bank needs at least parts of both halves. Half of an awful lot of 50's was missing. The manager took care of it. You could hear him yelling outside.
"It's bad to supress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips."
Posts: 7486 | Location: California | Registered: Sep 02, 2003
Somehow, all I've ever had are cats that have been cross-bred with monkeys. They've done everything but swing from the chandeliers, but believe me -- they've thought about doing it!
Someone with a sense of humor keeps sending me all these crazy cats for some reason...
Posts: 4423 | Location: About 28,000 Light Years From Galactic Center | Registered: Jul 23, 2004
I'm sure this isn't what you were asking about but.... Have you thought of using decorated paper bags?
Bags of various colors and paper can be purchased at craft stores, or the grocery store as lunch bags. A couple (several) years back the paper crafters came out with toppers for bags that can be stapled or glued to the tops of folded bags, as shown. You can use free coloring pages on the Internet as your topper pattern, or as a scene on the bag itself.
You can also keep it simple by folding down the top and punching holes through the top and running ribbon or fabric through the holes and then tying a bow or making handles.
As in all things crafty, the possibilities are endless.
I heard of a lady that made 'giant' drawstring bags for her family. All the presents for an individual were put into a bag; no muss, no fuss, no waste and completely reusable.
