dog-proof Christmas trees?

just wondering... how do you deal with putting up a Christmas tree and keeping your dog away from it? Jelly's first Christmas is coming up, and I'm thinking maybe it's time to bring the super-soaker indoors so we can keep her away from it. It would take a LOT of bitter apple spray to cover a Christmas tree otherwise!

We just didn't put one up last year. This year I think we will use gates to keep her away

We stopped using real trees many years ago - the dogs always peed up them, they tore the decorations off them (and tipped them over) & the needles got stuck in their paws!

I use an artificial one & stand it on a table.

We just bring our tree in from the shed, its an artificial one, then let Rocky have a sniff of it, then assemble it. We are lucky he has never touched anything on the tree once it is decorated. Just try a firm LEAVE should you need to.

iv got a fire guard that we put round we only needed it 2 years ago memphis didnt really bother looking at it last year

OMG I hadn't even thought about that until now Oh dear Steff will think it is her present A big tree with lots of stuff to play with

Polly met her first Christmas tree last year and wasn't impressed at all, even dangling decorations and flashing lights couldn't capture her attention

This year we have got Charlie the superbrat and we are taking no chances, the tree is going in the conservatory

Lexi never bothers with the decorations, and we have a lot inside and out lol

I've been thinking exactly the same...I think this Xmas is gonna be even more fun than normal with having Percy to share the fun with.

My daughter is already worrying about "how is Santa going to get in the living room to put her pressies under the tree without waking up Percy?" ( he sleeps in his crate in the living room)

So I'm trying to think of a believable "lie" to answer that question

Maybe Santa sprinkles magic sleeping dust over Percy's crate so he doesn't wake up??? (must remember to sprinkle some glitter around Percy's crate before going to bed) x

Lou&percy wrote:I've been thinking exactly the same...I think this Xmas is gonna be even more fun than normal with having Percy to share the fun with.

My daughter is already worrying about "how is Santa going to get in the living room to put her pressies under the tree without waking up Percy?" ( he sleeps in his crate in the living room)

So I'm trying to think of a believable "lie" to answer that question

Maybe Santa sprinkles magic sleeping dust over Percy's crate so he doesn't wake up??? (must remember to sprinkle some glitter around Percy's crate before going to bed) x

I asked my daughter she didn't think santa ate all the mince pies he got left did she? thats how he becomes friends with every dog in the world he feeds them mince pies and because he is magic they know he wants them to be quiet lol

Bensons first christmas to, i can see him looking for trouble and taking the decorations down. And dont think any presents will go under the tree or he will eat the paper!!

We've been asking ourselves this same question. It's not going to end well, I can feel it now

LOL yes, I can see a disaster in the making! We are really working on LEAVE (she's so funny and cute, I do it with her food at every meal and she stis way far back and when I say leave she won't even look at it, turns her head as far away as she can, bless her - OMG it's so adorable! I just don't have the heart to make her leave it for a long time, only a second or two, but I'm getting there)

Anyway, I digress... Lou, that would be really sweet to tell your daughter, I love it! sleeping dust around the crate sounds so cute too

And the mince pies... too much! My step-kids were told by their mother a few years ago that Santa isn't real and it's all just folly. Lovely, it's like a Vulcan is raising them. But oh well... it's nice to hear how you all handle it and getting the dogs involved is great too!

my two have never once paid the tree any attention....

sash never paid much attention to our tree until my son moved all the chocolates i put up the top down the bottom,then blamed sasha for all the empty wrappers left on there when it was him that ate them

stella wrote:sash never paid much attention to our tree until my son moved all the chocolates i put up the top down the bottom,then blamed sasha for all the empty wrappers left on there when it was him that ate them

Clever lad