Just a note, that while i am reading about all the tree antics of our
little ones, i have to say this.  Make sure that there is no flame
retardant spray on yours!  When we lived in California, our cat Asbury
loved to walk in and out of the tree, unfortunately for him and our
pocket book and being California, a state prone to huge fires, there was
retardant also on the tree.  Asbury nearly lost his life, and it cost us
$400 @ Vista Emergency Animal Hospital.  The weekend of christmas, Asbury
was lethargic, sleeping alot, and also vomiting.  I knew something was
wrong with him, he just wasn't his usual self.  Told my husband, we had 2
choices to make, that (I knew he was dying), that we either take him and
have him checked or put down, for i would not watch him suffer anymore.
(Christmas weekend, every thing closed), so we took him to Vista Emergency
Hosp. they kept him over night/i still have xrays and chart.  He got iv'd
and improved only to come home and decend right down hill again, it was my
husband who finally figured it out.  He was in and out of the tree and
licking the flame retardant off his fur, he was literally being poisoned.
We do not have trees anymore, i will not take those chances, and that is
one of the many lessons i have had to learn about animals, but one with
a happy ending, rather than the one i agonize with now.  IT was a small
sacrifice, a tree or my animals...the tree will go to the curb @ the end
of the holiday, so we opted for the animals.
 
I wish you all a very wonderful/loving/safe New Year
Sincerely
Donna / Eppy's lost without him, mommy
[Posted in FML issue 3638]