20 Classic Photos of Cats Caught in Christmas Trees for Your Festive Spirit

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Dec 4, 2025 3:00 PM EST

December has rolled around, and now we are fully locked in for the festive season. There is no more dilly-dallying, no more waiting around, it is time to get out all your Christmas goodies and fully lean into the spirit. But before you go full tilt, we wanted to offer up a little reminder of the classic conundrum which is what to do with your Christmas tree when you have cat children at home.

For it is not the easiest thing to strike the balance between holiday season joy thanks to a full and well-dressed tree and keeping that tree from hitting the floor because your cat child has decided to call it home or use it as a climbing frame. And we are most certainly not claiming to have come up with any kind of solution. Because if you ask us, there is no happy middle ground. Sometimes you just have to pay a price to have nice things, and sometimes that means those nice things come down in a blaze of glory, along with your cat.

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The culprit caught front and center being a naughty little thing. This is the problem with Xmas trees, our cute cat children were practically designed to climb and hide within them. Heck, it might even be the exact reason that cats enjoy cat trees so much. So watch out, because you never know where a cat may be chilling in a Christmas tree.
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You may think that your tree is safe if your cat is seemingly more obsessed with the baubles hanging off it. But that could not be any further from the truth. For not only will those baubles inevitably end up shattered on the floor. They will also not be the only baubles who will meet that fate, and the ones further up seriously put the tree’s integrity at risk.
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20 Classic Photos of Cats Caught in Christmas Trees for Your Festive Spirit

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