Mau Mew: Christmas

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Scentsicles are a Christmas tree scented ornament that might stop your cat climbing the tree BUT IS IT SAFE?

This is a "hack" in modern, internet parlance. It's a little trick dreamt up by a lady on TikTok. She has a successful TikTok account where it is obvious that she loves Christmas but she finds ways to save money and make her home look nice.

I HAVE TO ADD A CAUTION AGAINST THIS PRODUCT. ON MORE RESEARCH I THINK THIS PRODUCT IS UNSUITABLE AS A CHRISTMAS TREE CAT DETERRENT AS SCENTS CAN BE TOXIC TO CATS.

They smell nice to humans but the opposite to domestic cats! Image: MikeB

And because she lives with a cat or cats, she needs to protect her lovely Christmas tree from them because as we know cats see trees as something to climb even if it's almost impossible to do because of the decorations.

How many times have you seen a Christmas tree being felled by a cat trying to climb it? On the Internet you will see it happen quite a lot.

The lady's name is Jess and she discovered that a certain Amazon product designed to make your Christmas tree smell nice deters cats from the tree. In America they cost eight dollars, a very modest price and the product is called:

Scentsicles Scented Christmas Ornaments for Christmas Tree, All Natural Holiday Air Freshener (Christmas Berry Holiday Fragrance) Includes 6 Ornaments & Hooks

To give you the full description from Amazon. They are an "Amazon's Choice". And they get a very good rating of 4.3 out of five.

They make the tree smell nice as I say but according to Jess, cats strongly dislike the smell and therefore stay well away from the tree. They are not designed to be cat deterrents! It just so happens that Jess's cats hate the smell. I can't guarantee that this dislike applies to all cats.

Caution

You might wish to give them a try. Please be cautious though because I don't know whether this product is dangerous to companion animals. I don't think it is.

What I mean is some products you can buy Christmas can look nice and smell nice but if you have a dog, for example, they might like to chew on it and it may contain some substances which are toxic to dogs or perhaps cats as well. So just be careful there, please.

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Ultimate cat climbs Christmas tree video

Maybe this is the ultimate cat climbing a Christmas tree video. He is so accomplised but what happened after the video stopped? How much of the tree was destroyed?! I would have liked to have seen a bit more; to have seen how he got there and how he got off.

Ginger tabby cat enjoys his bit of fun. Screenshot.

I wonder whether her was put on the tree for the cameras? It kind of looks like that because I don't think he would have got up there without destroying something below which would have stopped him proceeding unless his owner didn't mind the Christmas tree being destroyed!

It's a cute little video though and re-emphhasises the fascination that domestic cats have with Christmas trees and which is why you can buy them which are cat-proof. They have the lower branches cut off or missing so they look a bit like umbrellas.

They don't look very good but they reduce anxiety levels in cat owners.

On a more serious note, during the Christmas season of 2019 a man in Johnson, Tennessee was charged with killing his cat because they climbed his Christmas tree.