Right now there is a trend circulating on social media how to get the cat to leave the Christmas tree alone this Christmas. On Tiktok, there are several people who film when they do the viral trick and tell how it went.
Many say that it works great and if you follow the trick, the cat will never play with the Christmas tree again.
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Scares his cat with the Christmas tree
The trick is to scare your cat so much that it becomes afraid of the Christmas tree. Among other things, the people who tested this show how they chase their cat with parts of the tree or spray water on the cat when it gets close.
News24 have spoken to Agria’s cat behaviourist Anna Jönsson Bergstedt about the trend. She believes that it is not at all kind to scare your cat and that it can destroy the relationship you have with it.
– I would not recommend scaring the cat in that way as it causes the cat discomfort. A discomfort that may not even be associated with the Christmas tree in the first place, says Anna Jönsson Bergstedt to Nyheter24 and continues:
– There is a risk of being the one who scares the cat with the Christmas tree and the water spray that is associated with fear, and that the cat owner thus damages the relationship with his cat.
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Scaring your cat can make it fearful and depressed
She also believes that the viral trick could cause general fear in everyday life for the cat.
– If the cat feels scared, depressed or insecure, it can also get symptoms of this in the form of the cat starting to urinate in the wrong place to secure itself, scratching to mark territory, defending itself when it feels vulnerable, she says to Nyheter24.