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WHAT TO GET YOUR CAT FOR CHRISTMAS
Cats like the same thing for Christmas that they like every other day of the year. Food, fresh water, clean litter and a bit of their favourite chin scratching, head-to-tail stroking, or other preferred form of affection as per usual happy day. Most cats wouldn't say no to a little nip of catnip. If it was slathered all over a sisal scratch post, they might say Yes! with great enthusiasm, punctuated by rolling all over the floor, embracing the catnip scented post with the odd bit of drooling. One note on sisal, it seems to last longer than most other scratch surfaces, at least in my cat household. I've also had great luck with placing a scratch post anointed with catnip next to the chair I don't want scratched. Your claw-sharpening mileage may vary. Not many people know that a great many cats like honeysuckle. There are honeysuckle sprays and toys saturated with it that will get a cat's attention as surely, though not quite as intensely, as catnip. Two holiday warnings for things dangerous to cats--poinsettia plants are among the most poisonous and should be kept out of reach, preferably nowhere that a kitty might ever be able to gnaw one. Also ribbon, string and yarn are very dangerous to cats. We almost learned this the hard way one Christmas when my husband and I had a kitten who swallowed a ribbon. Fortunately it was a very short piece of that curling kind of ribbon and we didn't find out the kitten had eaten it till it came out the other end. (There was also a lot of tinsel in the litter box that year, which was not good.) We might have ended up taking the kitten to the pet emergency room. Ribbon can kill a cat. If you've ever had a cat lick you, you may have noticed that their tongues feel like sandpaper. They have rough tongues to catch at things they lick to help them groom and catch prey. It's hard for them to stop swallowing once any kind of long strand gets caught on their tongues--even dental floss. Yes, I know you don't wrap presents with dental floss, I'm just saying it's a thing that can go down a cat's throat and knot up in his intestines with lethal results. So please protect your kitties. If you’ve ever seen a kitten, or even a usually dignified, grown-up cat on Christmas morning, diving and rolling around in discarded Christmas wrapping paper, or hopping into and out of gift boxes with glee, you can experience the pure, undiluted joy that cats can create as few other creatures can.
About the Author: Lynne Powell is still cat-crazy after all these years. Back to General Cat Articles Main Page
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