Hi, all. I, too, am curious to hear some answers to Faith's Christmas tree question, as I KNOW my ferts will be interested-Finnegan is a monkey. As for the cats and Christmas tree question, I speak from the experience of having a LARGE cat who liked to climb my parents' 14 foot Xmas tree (very high ceiling in our back room); my parents would tie the tree in a few places towards the top with strong fishing line to the ceiling beams. (From 2 opposite sides or 3 sides to help balance is best.) This was pretty much invisible, so didn't ruin the effect, and was strong enough to hold the tree up when kitty decided to climb it (it was probably a good idea with a tree that tall anyway). If you don't have free beams to tie it to (our ceiling beams were a few feet below the peaked ceiling) you can tack it to the ceiling molding or walls. Hope that helps. As for the ornaments, we just prayed for the best and hung the more delicate ones or heavier ones further away from the ends of branches and used sturdy hangers that we bent around the branches extra tight. You can always use yarn or more fishing line to tie them around the branches. Or twist wire hangers around the branches (paper clips are good for this b/c you have extar wire to work with). Now I hope we hear about if Xmas trees are safe with fuzzies (i.e. if pine needle ingestion can be really harmful)... -April and the kids [Posted in FML issue 3514]