{"id":16573,"date":"2022-12-20T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:35:20","slug":"daily_2876_-_cat-safe_christmas_tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/12\/20\/daily_2876_-_cat-safe_christmas_tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2876 &#8211; cat-safe Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2876_Christmas_bauble.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nLast year when we put up the Christmas tree, Nysse climbed right up into it. The tree toppled, the poor cat was shocked, and a couple of our ornaments were broken.<\/p>\n<p>The tree may have seemed like a safe and familiar place in an otherwise scarily new house. At the time, Nysse had been with us for just a few days, and he used to live in the countryside before moving in with us. Or maybe it was the opposite and he climbed up there because it was novel and exciting with all the shiny, sparkling ornaments.<\/p>\n<p>So either he&#8217;s going to be much less likely to climb it this year, because he&#8217;s no longer insecure and looking for a familiar place, or he&#8217;s going to be much more interested, because he is more inclined to go exploring.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got the tree secured to hooks in the wall in two directions, just in case, so it might remain standing even if there is some not-too-energetic climbing. It&#8217;s only been a few days but it looks like the tree might be safe. Nysse goes batting at some of the baubles on the lower branches, where everything is inexpensive and cat-proof, and licks water from the container, but hasn&#8217;t been trying to climb the tree at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year when we put up the Christmas tree, Nysse climbed right up into it. The tree toppled, the poor cat was shocked, and a couple of our ornaments were broken. The tree may have seemed like a safe and familiar place in an otherwise scarily new house. At the time, Nysse had been with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,18,778,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-dailies","category-nystagmus","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16574,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}