Does anyone have any suggestions about putting up a Christmas tree with a cat in the house?

Put some orange and lemon peel inside the pot, works every time and I have two large Maine Coons who have nevere touched the tree

I heard someone on the radio say that she screwed a hook into her ceiling just above the tree and then used fishing line to string through several of the upper branches, then up into the hook so that the tree could not be toppled over. She then concealed the fishing line behind her tree topper. Plastic ornaments that look like frosted glass ornaments and NO tinsel or shiny garland made her tree safe from animals (or kids) and not such a big deal if something got knocked off the tree.

Put the tree up by it self, without ornaments or lights for a few days to allow the animals to get used to it. I keep a squirt bottle of water near by to deter them from getting where they shouldn't. After they have gotten used to the tree, put the lights up, wait a few more days, continue to allow them to get used to it. Once it seem that they are, then put your ornaments on, but leave the bottom row bare of ornaments just as a precaution from the pets, and they also won't get broken!

If they both have a "punishment spot" such as a cage, or perhaps hooking their leash onto the collar and tying it to a chair, use this to reinforce the NO aspect of their investigations into the tree. It will happen, just be firm, sometimes a swat on the nose does the trick.

I've done this with each new arrival into the house, pet-wise, and it always works.

Happy Holidays to you!

Get a water spray bottle..and anytime the get near the tree spray them with it...It works they will learn after a bit.