Kittens Destroy Fake Tree

Once Halloween is over, Winter Holiday decorations are fair game to put up. Heck, some people don't even wait for Halloween to be over. This is a fake, six foot tall Douglas Fir tree inside of a modest home in the Midwest, in the far North Eastern corner of Kansas, for the sake of properly setting the scene. And, yes, it went up ON Halloween, but only the lights and the star were added. No ornaments were put on. That was being delayed, at least, until after Halloween passed. And thank goodness, as the tree nearly immediately became fair game for kitten play and naughty shenanigans. Apparently, the actual 52 inch cat tree that was purchased, assembled and placed in the "kitten room" (filled with all sorts of fun kitten/cat toys, which is supposed to provide for hours upon hours of fun kitten play time without causing any destruction in the rest of the home), doesn't seem to matter to these little kitten rascals.

There are four kittens in this particular litter, born back on August 20, 2019. Halloween 2019, these four little troublemakers are enjoying reaching the milestone of being ten weeks old. They're plenty big enough to get into lots of trouble, but luckily, still just small enough, that even all four of them climbing the fake tree at the same time hasn't managed to tip it over. The kittens are still each only just around two pounds, at least the three boys (Julius, Simon and Tal) are. The lone girl in the litter (Dorian) is a bit of a runt, so she is just slightly less than two pounds, and in fact weighs in at 1.9 pounds. Once the runt, always the runt, perhaps.

In any case, this fake Douglas Fir and its base are fortunately sturdy enough to handle nearly eight pounds of kitten hellion mayhem, constantly climbing up and down the branches, and even getting into play fights with each other while still in the tree. However, the star had to be removed. The lights seem to be okay. At least, no one is chewing on them... yet. However, the lights will most likely need to be removed as well. They are NOT plugged in, and won't be... EVER.

This brings a whole new meaning to the term "cat tree". Why was money even spent on an actual cat tree, anyway? This fake Douglas Fir has been put up every Christmas for the last three years, this X-mas 2019 will be year number four. Looks like this year, the only decorations going on the tree will be these four kittens. Well, that's okay. Some compromises have to be made to welcome four new little kitties into the household, and if this is the biggest sacrifice needed to be made, there are no complaints here.

Let's just see how much longer these kittens can play in the tree before they DO get just heavy enough to finally topple the whole thing over. Then all their fun will be ruined... Or... Probably not. When that happens, they'll probably just continue climbing, playing and hiding among the branches while the tree simply lays horizontally on the floor. After all, a cat tree is a cat tree, whether vertical or felled.

So, no tree this year, but all's well. There's still always Holiday music. These little furballs cat (oops, that is CAN'T) take that away!! Word puns aside, Happy Holidays, kittens. After all, this IS your very first Christmas, so enjoy the tree. Just know you'll be climbing it to the tunes of, "Here Comes Santa Claws"... "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Kittens" ... "Climbin' Around the Cat Tree"... and "Kittens We Have Seen up High"...