Caution!! Tree Lights!!
 

I just wanted to come and remind everyone about the danger of NEW Christmas tree lights!!! I have family here for Christmas...helping decorate the tree....while I hover around each of them, eyes and ears GLUED to the floor and all activity.....these people just do NOT know about what small dogs can get into and what danger could possibly exist with all the family love and festivities and fun!! Can NOT put tinsil on the tree that is inthe sun room, where the babies are allowed to be. NO tiny little decorations allowed on that tree....only the unbreakable balls and ornaments allowed....and NOW something new!!! My son was taking new strings of lights out of the package, testing the bulbs, then handing them off to the next person in line to straighten the lights out and then put on the tree. My astute ears heard a tiny little tinkly...like the tiny sound a little nail may make as it hits the floor....FRANTIC SHUT DOWN OF ALL MOVEMENT AND EVERYONE ON ALL FOURS, LOOKING FOR WHAT HAD JUST HIT THE FLOOR....They were all certain I had completely LOST my mind!!!......THE TINY LITTLE FUSE that comes extra, with a couple extra bulbs, in a tiny little plastic bag attached to the lights, was the thing that hit the floor!! We Yorkie moms are so astute and hear all kinds of noises others do not hear...thank God I heard that drop, in spite of all the noise and gaiety....I do not know if those will kill a dog, or even make them deathly ill....but they can NOT be healthy food fare, and they can be easily swallowed.....very tiny. SO WATCH OUT FOR THAT!!!

good reminder....i am the same way...last night my daughter and her boyfriend were playing around at the dinner table and lo and behold her taco meat fell on the floor and i dive off my chair and im cleaing up all the taco meat before my yorkies heads can spin...she thinks im a looney but i wouldve been the one dealing with the poops all night if they got to that spicy taco meat. she just doesnt get the furr kids dont know something is bad for them or going to hurt them!!

Thanks for the warning. I know exactly what you are talking about and I never even thought about that. Yep, it's really small and could easily be a choking hazzard!

Its crazy what we can hear I amaze people some times and annoy them when I am like a hawk over them saying ya know if you drop that Callie could eat it and it could be very bad lol. Glad you heard and got it before any little four legged babies could get it. Christmas is like crazy mess of lots of things that can go very bad for our babies.

LOL Im the mom of a yorkie and 2 small children, I know exactly what you are talking about. I have a rule that there are no ornaments that require those metal hooks, for fear one may get stuck in the carpet and someone step on it. So everything has to have long strings. The things that need hooks get a yarn string.
And I vacuum very well around the tree in case something drops in the carpet.

Thanks for the reminder

We have the tree in another room. We keep the pup and the mom away from it for just that reason. The cat on the other hand is much harder to keep away.

This year the tree is going in the corner - with an extra support! We do have plastic hooks and also yarn for ornament hanging.

I have handmade tinselly looking thingies I hang on the tree from about 3 feet up from the ground.

Our cat is the worst offender for sure. He loves to bat the ornaments off the tree. :eek:

I dont have a cat to worry with "climbing the tree and knocking stuff off"...but the RHG has been caught CLIMBING up the packages to get lower limbs and the decorations located there! So we quickly "fixed" that issue by encircling the tree with a wire ex-pen....now, those little rascles stand around the ex-pen encirclig the tree, just intently looking and studying the fenced off tree and all the goodies just beyond the fence, and you can actually HEAR the wheels churning inside those precious little heads, trying to figure out how this too, can be surmounted!!!