{"id":862,"date":"2014-12-15T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T03:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=862"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:34","slug":"cat-friendly-gift-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2014\/12\/cat-friendly-gift-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Friendly Gift Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PC033048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-865 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PC033048-e1418259634829-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Tree Kitty\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PC033048-e1418259634829-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PC033048-e1418259634829-749x999.jpg 749w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/PC033048-e1418259634829.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><strong>Christmas time is a wonderful time of year for my cats.<\/strong> They love the all the fun decorations, the Christmas trees, and the gifts. I also have these little bells hanging from the garland on the stairs that Theo loves to bat at until they ring. Sitting, playing, sleeping, and hiding under the tree is a favorite pastime, but climbing in it or even eating the (artificial!!) tree is even more fun. Last week I cleaned up fake-Christmas-tree cat puke twice.\u00a0 As far as the gifts go, curling ribbon and bows are apparently extra tasty to my kitties. They&#8217;ll do anything to get a taste of curling ribbon. (Which will ultimately end up on my carpet in the form of ribbon puke). My cats aren&#8217;t too bright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t figured out the cure for eating trees, but I have figured out how to wrap my gifts in a cat friendly way. I use regular ribbons (think the fabric kind at Joann&#8217;s or Michael&#8217;s) and tie or tape them in simple ways to prevent them from looking extra tasty! The trick is to not have tiny loose ends. Here are a few pictures of some of my packages this year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CatFriendlyGifts2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CatFriendlyGifts2.jpg\" alt=\"CatFriendlyGifts2\" width=\"512\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CatFriendlyGifts2.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CatFriendlyGifts2-150x300.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CatFriendlyGifts2-499x999.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>And, so far, so good &#8212; the kitties haven&#8217;t eaten any of the gifts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time is a wonderful time of year for my cats. They love the all the fun decorations, the Christmas trees, and the gifts. I also have these little bells hanging from the garland on the stairs that Theo loves to bat at until they ring. Sitting, playing, sleeping, and hiding under the tree is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[82,32,81],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays","tag-cats","tag-gifts","tag-wrapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}