How to display a christmas village when you have cats?

[Disney8704]

I have 2 cats who LOVE to climb on top of EVERYTHING. So I was just wondering, this year I plan on starting a christmas village and was wondering for those who have cats and display villages how do you do it? What do you use to display them? I dont have a mantel or any shelves on a wall, so thats out. Any tips would be great!

 

[sunsprinkle24]

I put my Halloween and Christmas villages on top of my tv stand...its a big one. For the Christmas villages I bought some of that white fluffy stuff, (maybe its like a tree skirt?) and it looks like they are sitting in snow.

 

[Disney8704]

Good idea but unfortunantly we dont have a huge tv stand. We have a small tv stand and 2 side towers where the speakers are sitting on. Besides that wouldnt stop the kitten from jumping up there. I got her from a friend and they have one of those huge entertainment centers and she still managed to jump on top of it. I dunno how but she did.

 

[Pumbaa_]

When i had older cats, they left it alone. SInce they 'aged out', we now have cats that just turned 4. I have not had a xmas tree or my village since they arrived.

The first year they were 6 months old. We set up the artificial, prelit tree. I spent hours arranging the branches just so.

They thanked me and took it over climbing in it and sleeping in it. One started chewing on it so it had to come down. The following year they were just wild! No way

Last year, same thing. Climb anything and everything. Not worth it.

Now this year, I am having a tree darn it! I miss it. They weigh 11-13 lbs now, so any climbing will bring the tree down. I am hoping they do this once and learn ffrom it (I crack me up)

The breakables will not be put up, the village will not come out since no surface is safe with them around.

So until they get to the 'lumpy' cycle of life, no village here. Looking forward to seeing what others do with their furbabies around

 

[LuvN~Travel]

Luckily I have just enough pieces to my village to leave it in the china cabinet. Sure glad I hadn't gotten many yet.

However, I see the tree thing driving us crazy this year too. I actually thought about it for the first time the other day. Our two girls are now about 4/5 months old and climbing on everything! I can imagine them taking the tree on too. I think we'll make sure it is real close to the bay window this year in the living room, so we can use some fishing line to anchor it to the curtain rod over the window.
Now, if I only knew how to keep them from breaking my Radco type looking ornaments (just look alikes too poor to have the real stuff) from getting broke. These cats have already taken out two lamps!
Kim

 

[Imzadi]

It's time to dust off this link again:

http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp

 

[JR6ooo4]

Sprinkle the scene with catnip and grab the video camera!

Mikeeee

 

[GirTheGecko]

We always put our village up on the mantle. The cats normally left that alone.

This reminds me the first year we had Oreo, he knocked over the tree. We anchored it with weights to avoid a repeat. When I was 17, we moved into a house with much lower ceilings (8 feet). Our artificial tree was 9 feet. The tree was smooshed into the ceiling because Mom insisted. We didn't need the weights because it was wedged up.

 

[Pumbaa_]

OMG! that's my tree! the picture where there is a flat level area towards the top! That's what mine did. They thought it was the perfect napping zone

WE didn't leave it up for their pleaure though.

thanks for the link, very cute kitties
(and pooch!)

 

[Caboosey]

We have a non-breakable Christmas village (plastic canvas, made by my late grandmother) and it gets displayed every year on the picture window by the tree. The cat normally spends a lot of time napping in said picture window, so he gets pretty mad that there's suddenly a whole village in his nap spot! Around Christmas, we refer to him as "Godzilla Cat!" because he knocks over houses, chews trees, etc.