"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> I didn't put up a tree for several years for a few reasons, and one was
> young cats in the house. Last year I put one up and I do hang it from the
> ceiling. It just means put a hook in the ceiling (a hook you hang on the
> back of a bathroom door for a bathrobe works) and tie some fishing line or
> other fine string around the top of the tree, and the other end around the
> hook. The tree still reaches the floor and is in a tree base. It
> prevents them from knocking it over. I hang unbreakable ornaments where
> they can be reached by curious cats, but be careful with the hooks. It
> doesn't stop from finding an ornament from higher up on the floor now and
> then.

Ahhh... I see. I assumed that the tree was just hanging in the air.
Thanks!