Table-Top Christmas Tree is The Best Solution for Those Who Got Too Curious Pets

Have you got too curious cat or dog at home? If so, I think, you familiar with this kind of Christmas carol:

Oh Christmas tree,

Oh Christmas tree,

Your ornaments

Are history!

Are you smiling? Me too! But, on a serious side, my family know how to avoid ruining our Christmas tree or decorations by too curious furry friend (in our case – our beloved Murchyk the cat :) So, in order to avoid big Holiday Catsmess, two years in a row, since we got our Murchyk, we simply… didn't have any Christmas tree. However, we have found few compromises, like having kissing balls and swags – take a look; it was last year and a year before.

So this Christmas 2012 Ron and I have decided to go the same way – to get few kissing balls in our favourite flower shop, and that’s was it. Until we accidentally saw a perfect solution for our (and our cat’s) Christmas – a table-top Christmas tree! Live! We have spotted it in local mall and bought immediately. Good, we have a little patio table, so we brought it in, set up our table-top Christmas tree on it, decorated it, and… it looks beautifully! And, of course, unreachable for our curious Murchyk:

As you can see, the tree got a little stand with a bowl of water; I water it regularly, so our tree can stay live in a house for long-long time, which is good, because we are intend to keep it longer than for Christmas and New Year. As we have explain in Murchyks blog introduction, our family is Ukrainian-Canadian, so we celebrate Ukrainian Christmas as well (Ukrainian Christmas is January 7).

So, we are really happy we have found a perfect Christmas tree solution as for us, cat persons. But even having a table-top Christmas tree, I still wanted a kissing ball, which I got; here it is, with Murchyk’s Christmas stocking on it:

It’s so nice to wake up in Christmas time in a house full of smell of a real fur-tree! And knowing that both your cat and your ornaments are safe :)

Merry Catsmess!

Meet Vasey. He is a lovely cat of Jasmine (Jasmine is a niece of my sister-in-law). This picture was taken last year, when Jasmine's family was setting up a Christmas tree. Kitty-cat immediately went to discover what is it and how it works and whether he can play with it. It was Vasey's first Christmas! Yay!

Last year was our Murchyk’s first Christmas too. But my husband Ron and I decided to avoid any complications having Christmas tree in the same house with cat – we knew we would have permanent worries whether our Christmas tree, ornaments and garlands are survived, or whether our kitten is okay. Sometimes I think how people can ever manage having a Christmas tree, a baby and a cat (cats) – everything at the same time :)
Anyway. We COULD have a Christmas tree, but we decided to avoid any worries about our cat and tree relationships, so that’s how we decorated our house for Christmas last year – we just hung a kissing ball to the wall. We have ordered a plain fir tree ball in a local garden store and I decorated it with our ornaments:

I can tell you - this is a good Christmas tree solution for cat persons like us!
This year we stuck to the same decoration idea: two kissing balls under the ceiling

(oh yeah, cat-related ornament is a must!)
and a swag on a wall:

Knowing our Christmas decorations decision, our friends from the States Olya and Jim sent us a sweet Christmas card which we love so much! Here, what they wrote, “Since you didn’t put up a tree because of your Murchyk might make a mess, we found a card to show you it would make great pictures! Merry Catsmess!” 
And here is the card:

Thanks Olya and Jim! Thanks Jasmine for the kitty’s picture! Merry Christmas to all of you, guys! And to all the cats in the world!

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It is nice to start something new for Christmas! So, here we are, another two cat persons, which are joining a huge army of cat bloggers worldwide. I am Maria, an author of this blog, and my husband’s name is Ron. We are happy Ukrainian-Canadian family and we live in Canada. We got a cat, his name is Murchyk - please take a look above for the blog description, what does Murchyk mean. In this blog we will talk not about our cat only, but about everything what is connected to cats: pictures, videos, tips how to take a better care about your furry purring sweetie (sweeties) etc. So, as we started before the Christmas, we want to share with you something Christmassy about cat’s world. In this case – about our Murchyk’s world. Our cat is indoor-outdoor cat and he is absolutely okay with winter. He is very curious about snowy weather and about everything which is connected to a snow, like shoveling snow:

And our Murchyk is having quite a fun in a snowfall:

Well, it is not that much fun, when he is coming in with all those snowballs stuck to his furry belly and leaving wet marks all over the place. In this case I normally take him to the bathroom and let those snowballs to melt, because it is impossible to remove them from his fur right away, especially if it was a humid weather outside and snow got wet.

But, anyway, it is fun – as I am a cat person, everything what is connected to my beloved kitty is fun. And every time, looking at his winter pictures, I am getting into a Christmas spirit. I hope, you too!

Your comments and messages are welcome.
P.S. I completely forgot - I have a video of our Murchyk which I took on the same snowy day! Here it is, hope you enjoy it like our furry sweetie was enjoying a snow and snowflakes: