A Cat's Eye View of Christmas
By: Tippy & Alfred
Here is a cat's eye view of Christmas...
What's Your Cat Doing for Christmas?
This is a wonderful time of year when the humans decorate
the home for us cats in anticipation of the visit from
"Santa Claws." The tree went up yesterday, and so did we!
Whee! Made it to the fourth branch within the first five
minutes before the Big Owner chased us out of the tree.
So, as we do every year, we waited and watched the humans
decorate the Cat-mas tree with all sorts of these things
humans call "ornaments."
We call them "cat toys."
Ornaments are invitations to a cat, bright and shiny spheres
just daring us to knock them off. And we're pretty good at
it, considering all the trees they've decorated.
Every year humans hang the ornaments a little higher out of
our range, forcing us to elevate our game to knock them off.
Humans "ohhh and ahhh" as they decorate the Cat-mas tree.
Us? We salivate in anticipation of the night's activities.
The humans retire to bed, as is custom during Cat-mas
season, leaving us to play with our tree.
Tonight is a challenge, the ornaments are at an all-time
high. We crept under the tree and began to scale branches.
This is great! A tree in our own home, why don't they do
this year-round? Five, six, seven branches, we climb like a
pro. Ten, twelve, we are halfway to the top, and there is
the first ornament! This is easy as Cat-mas fruitcake.
We make our way down the branch approaching the first
ornament. It lightly jiggles as our weight causes the bough
to bend. Almost there! One paw away and we feel a shudder.
Hey, something is not right here, we begin to lose our
balance. The room is tilting! No, the room is not tilting
... the Cat-mas tree is falling! ME-OW!!
It seemed like forever as the tree leaned, then pitched, and
finally crashed to the floor in a resounding bang of
exploding bulbs, ornaments, and broken limbs. We quickly
extricated ourselves from the splintered tree just as the
Big Owner came bursting in snapping on the lights and
talking excitedly.
There we were, sitting next to the tree, as innocent a look
on our faces as any other in the household.
"What happened?" he growled.
Not a peep from us, we turned and looked at the tree.
"I guess we hung too many ornaments on one side of the
tree," we heard him say later as he hoisted the mangled Cat-
mas tree back into place.
"Goo-ood answer," we thought.
The Big Owner staggered off to bed, and we retreated to the
living room. Maybe we'll tear down those stockings that were
hung by the chimney "with care".
It was a good day.
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