pets and holidays

Only thing I can really remember, the typical...cat climbing up the tree, knocking it off or knocking half the lights off. I did learn though not to use glass ornaments, especially round glass ornaments. My cats loved knocking those off and rolling them around, and one house I lived in, they rolled a few ornaments into the bathroom where they shattered against the bath tub. I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and sliced my foot open in several places from the glass. Now we just use the plastic ornaments, on only on the top half of the tree lol. Oh, and I learned last year that dogs CAN smell through wrapping paper, plastic wrap, and cardboard. One of my pain in the butt dogs managed to polish off a whole box of choclates. What really ticked me off, it was expensive chocolates from this little candy shop where I used to live, and I didn't even get to eat one. Stupid dog....I was so ticked! She spent the rest of the day and that night outside, one for punishment, but also I didn't want to see how it was going to affect her lol, she's lucky she didn't die from all that chocolate. That's about it really, mine friggin dogs are always trying to pull food off the counters, so that's almost an everyday occurence in our house :)

Last Christmas, my husband "accidentally" taught our new "pound kitty" how to operate a musical toy. We have a set of musical Christmas chihuahuas. You press the paw and they play carols. Our new cat that we rescued from the local pound got up on the table where they were and pulled one down to the floor. My husband took it away from him; held it out and activated the music. He told the cat that if he couldn't play with it correctly, he could not play with it at all. My husband put the toy back on the table. A few minutes later the cat was back up on the table. He walked over to the toy dog and pressed the paw and the carols started playing. My husband's jaw dropped and we all started laughing. We told him that it was his fault since the "taught" the cat how to operate it and told him if he did he could play with it! When the carols stopped the cat pressed the paw again and once again the music was playing and we were all laughing. Two times was enough. The cat jumped down and never bothered the toy dogs again.