Christmas kitties

[selenay]

Last night we went out and bought our Christmas tree. Note to self: trees are better bought during daylight.

Anyway.

The tree has been set up in its stand in our upstairs living room. We had been anticipating two possible reactions: bored indifference or climbing it. The first was hoped for, the second seemed more likely.

We got a third, unexpected reactio: complete terror.

Annie is definitely not impressed with the prickles, but she's at least willing to be in the same room with it. Kate won't go near it. She doesn't want to see it. We've put their things in the craft room so they can be shut away at night (in case they decide to climb or destroy decorations) and she's decided that the only place she feels safe is cowering in a corner of the craft room or sitting in the sink in my bathroom. Her biggest problem is that she can see the tree (lurking threateningly?) when she makes the dash from the craft room to the bathroom.

Poor Kate.

We're hoping that when we've got decorations on it she might be a little happier. It's definitely not what we expected! Annie can't work out why her sister is being such a fraidy cat.

Of course, Annie spent the first day he was here hiding from Da while Kate was cuddly and adorable to him. We think it was the height and his deep voice that unnerved her. Now she's quite happy with him and he sealed the deal last night with a photo shoot of them while Mum and I made supper. Annie loves being photographed :-) He even managed to get some good shots of Kate while she was awake, a very rare thing. Then we brought a tree into the house and terrifed Kate witless. We're so mean.

Christmas with my girls is going to be...interesting.

Comments

[catseatsocks.livejournal.com]

That's so strange. Frasier saw his first tree last year when I brought him home with me to mom and dad's. He liked it. I don't have a tree now but he does try to play with various decorations.

[selenay]

I was expecting them to be completely insane over the tree and we've been trying to work out how to prevent them climbing it. This may not be a problem! Although we'll wait until it's decorated before declaring victoy over the climbing issue.

She really, really, really doesn't like the tree.

[catseatsocks.livejournal.com]

You could hang dried citrus slices from it, or spray some kind of orange oil.

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness! Yeah, that wouldn't have been an expected reaction to a Xmas tree... Hope she gets used to it.

[selenay]

I'd like it if she can at least tolerate being in the same room with the tree, otherwise we're going to have a big problem! I never even considered that she'd react this way.