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]