Christmas Cat-astrophe

One Christmas we finally had the house and tree all decorated. My husband was laying on the couch watching TV and I was reading. All of a sudden our cat Buster came barreling down the hall into the living room and dove into the middle of the tree and started climbing up it. Before I could jump up and grab him, the tree started swaying and tipped over falling on my husband. I'm not sure who it scared more, my husband or the cat.

Luckily it was an artificial tree so it wasn't very heavy and it didn't hurt them - but it did break some ornaments and lights and flattened one side of it so we (I should say I) had to take most of the decorations off and re-do the tree. Although my husband didn't think so, it was pretty funny. The poor cat never got close to the tree again in his remaining 10 or so years of life. Every Christmas he would just stare at it from a safe distance.

S.F. - Akron, Ohio