{"id":900,"date":"2012-12-04T23:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:40:33","slug":"cats-and-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/cats-and-christmas-trees","title":{"rendered":"Cats and Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Christmas Tree vs. The Cat.<\/h2>\n<p>Christmas is here and it is time to set up your <em><strong>Christmas tree<\/strong><\/em>.  Who has experienced their fun little feline charge up the top of their tree, knocking over ornaments and causing destruction?\u00a0 We have!!<\/p>\n<p>We would like to share a few tips on keeping your cat out of the tree this year.\u00a0 Keep in mind, however, it is a cat&#8217;s natural behavior that your cat is going to enjoy doing.\u00a0 He is probably thanking you for putting this entertainment right in your home for him to enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>One of the best solutions is to take a spray bottle with water and spray your cat every time it approaches the tree.  This would act as a form of  discipline or as a deterrent. It does not take much. After spritzing a  few times, all you have to do  is shake the bottle at them. They learn  fast!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few other things you can try to discourage your cat from scampering up your <em><strong>Christmas tree<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Place orange peels around the base of your <em><strong>Christmas tree<\/strong><\/em>. Cats do not like the smell of orange.<\/li>\n<li> Spray your artificial tree with some Citronella oil that is mixed in a  spray bottle with water. Again, cats do not like the citrus smell.<\/li>\n<li> Spray pine cones with the Citronella oil\/water spray. Spread the pine cones under your tree.<\/li>\n<li> Use an artificial tree. Maybe your cat will not be tempted to climb the metal branches.<\/li>\n<li> Place bells around the bottom of your tree. No, the sound of the bell  does not frighten the cats, but it does sound an alarm for you! Once you  hear the bells, you get the water bottle. Before you know it, the  kitties learn the connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have any funny <em><strong>Christmas tree<\/strong><\/em> Vs. The Cat stories from Christmas&#8217;s past?\u00a0 Please share them on our blog!<\/p>\n<p style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas Tree vs. The Cat. Christmas is here and it is time to set up your Christmas tree. Who has experienced their fun little feline charge up the top of their tree, knocking over ornaments and causing destruction?\u00a0 We have!! We would like to share a few tips on keeping your cat out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,113,174,54,214,480,69,481,479,25,38,483,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}