christmas tree

Welcome to Christmas - the holiday that every cat loves the most. The house is covered in shiny things, there's a tree inside of the house, so. much. excitement. is happening. But, while we're thinking about ways to fortify our trees against our cats, our cats are choosing their own favorite Christmas decorations, namely, themselves. 

Because we know that the best Christmas ornament in our house is inevitably going to be our cat. And we also know that we can't really be mad at them for it. We'll be taking pictures first and removing our cat ornaments second - prioritizing correctly. 

We all love Christmas. It's magical, it's cheer, it's joy, it's gifts and ornaments and time away from work and with our pets and families. Our pets, of course, love Christmas too. Even if they don't understand exactly what's going on, they can feel our happiness and cheer, and it brings them happiness and cheer too. 

Every year, we celebrate our Christmases with our pets, making sure to of course leave a little gift for them as well, but there's something unique and oh so special about a pet's first Christmas. Whether they were just born and are experiencing it for the first time, or if they were just adopted, the joy that Christmas brings them passes right back into us. 

It's a circle of joy: happy us - happy pets, happy pets - happy us. 

Please enjoy these pictures of pets experiencing their first Christmas and have a happy new year, everyone!

It's Christmas, and Earnie is giving all the Christmas lover in the audience a special little treat. He's discovered the Christmas tree, so of course, he had to commemorate the occasion.

Meowmoirs: It's Christmas time, and this tree belongs to Earnie.

Read about Earnie's first ever real Christmas and his experience of climbing up the tree to get his one true star.

Another special treat is right at the end of the list, where @sleepyskele has made a Christmas-y animation of the entry just for this special day! So, check out Earnie in action, living out his dream of achieving the ultimate Christmas victory right in front of your very eyes.

Read the previous entry of Earnie's diary here!

You can hop back to the first entry about the day of adoption right here as well. 

Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year, everyone!

An adorable kitten has completely camouflaged herself in a jam-packed Christmas tree and she's actually quite difficult to spot! 

Introducing Moon, the feisty 13-week-old white British Shorthair who loves to climb and has amused people around the globe with her Christmas tree antics! Moon's owner, Sarah Nelson McGuiness, from Liverpool, has shared the image online and has seen gone viral. 

McGuiness told Daily Mail, "I shared it online for a bit of fun. Friends have messaged saying "please tell me where is she" because it was racking their brains. Some have spent over ten minutes looking for her and said it is driving them mad."

Truth be told, we had a lot of trouble ourselves spotting this camouflage master! McGuiness continued, "'If she isn't stealing the baubles to play with - she is up the tree. She's fell asleep in it a few times. I do take her straight out when I notice her in the tree because I would hate for her to fall. I think she likes being in the tree because she can see everyone but we can't see her."

Story via Daily Mail

It's the end of the year, Christmas is coming, and we are soooo ready to celebrate. As a special treat, we've collected 40 Christmas themed animal tumblr posts to bring some animal shine into this into this holiday season. 

Some are funny, some are wholesome, others adorable, and some are just a little bit weird, exactly like tumblr does best. But these posts are all Christmas, all animals, and all tumblr. It's the kind of gift that we know you, animal lovers, will love.

So, have a merry Christmas, friends! Stay warm, drink some eggnog, hug your loved ones (and yes, we're very much including 'pets' in 'loved ones', please don't forget to hug them too), and stay with us throughout the next year, getting your animal fix every single day of the year.

We're calling it the greatest Christmas gift ever! One lucky family in Australia had quite the unexpected visitor this holiday season, all thanks to one unusually large and furry ornament hanging from their Christmas tree - a real-life koala! 

The McCormick family discovered the koala tangled in the lights and the plastic branches of the tree last Wednesday, Amanda McCormick shared in a Facebook post, "Well that's something you don't see every day... we just came home to a real-life koala up our Xmas tree in our lounge room!"

McCormick told The Guardian how she believes the koala found its way into their home and tree, "must have crawled in when the doors were open. It would have been in our house for at least three hours." 

So, what do you do when you happen to find a koala in your Christmas tree? The family called the local Adelaide and Hills Koala Rescue, and when the rescue first heard their story, they thought it was a prank call. Adelaide and Hills Koala Rescue wrote on Instagram, "But no, a koala desperate to get in the Christmas spirit had wandered into Amanda McCormick's house and decided it wanted to be the fairy on the Christmas tree. Tis the season to be jolly... Koalalalala Lalalala."

And this past Friday, McCormick's daughter shared a video of the koala on TikTok which has since gone viral because let's face it -- a koala in your Christmas tree is pretty darn special! 

Story via The Guardian

'Tis the season! Thanksgiving is over and the holiday season is well on its way! We're seeing people put up their trees everywhere! And those who have cats know more than anyone how this next month will be.

The age-old classic, cats vs Christmas trees. It's a yearly segment that we never get tired of because there's always new and hilarious content out there of cats destroying or plotting to destroy that highly decorated tree. Will the humans win this year and have their tree up all season? Or are they simply doomed and their cats shall be the ones to decide their faith?

Sweet darlings cats, if there's one universal truth is that they have this need to be within that tree, they have a desire to attack those ornament, to take down the tree entirely. They can't help it, they are programmed to destroy that tree. Who was it that programmed that function is not known to us, but we have reason to believe it was a higher power.... ceiling cat, perhaps?

Dragging a Christmas tree to the curb can be a sad moment, marking the end of another holiday season. What if disposing of your tree could be a joyful moment instead? 

Story via: WFTS

Don't ever mess with the tree beast. It hangs his victims on its branches and therefore, should be destroyed!  Via:Iizcats

On the days before Christmas, cat owners share some details about the holiday spirit in their home and we're sure you can all relate.  

What a magical night, a true picturesque setting. A woman's cat has given birth under the glowing lights of their Christmas Tree. 

Twitter user, @WeTheDanielle, shared a now viral tweet of her cat, under the tree, with her newborn kittens! It's enough to make anyone heart soar! 

Congrats, @WeTheDanielle! 

See the heartwarming pictures of the new family below! 

Irene Olocco from Italy posted a picture of her cat, Lord Victor Fluffypaw, staring at the Christmas tree…from a safe distance. How can it be, you ask, that the cat is not attacking the tree itself? Well, thanks to Olocco's brilliant plan! She knew her cat's greatest fear is tangerine so she put tangerines around the perimeter of the tree to keep the kitty away. Genius.

The Dodo interviewed Olocco about the tangerine shenanigans, and she said, "We were together on the couch, I grabbed a tangerine and, as I began to peel it, he hissed and ran away….I began to put oranges or tangerines on the furniture where I didn't want him to climb on and it worked."