By Tony (Photos by Karen)
Karen finally got our new white Christmas tree all decked out with her cat ornaments…
And the tree has become my favorite daytime napping spot. It’s like snoozing in an albino forest, but it doesn’t make me and Red Doggy dream of a White Christmas…
Two years ago, Karen showed you our personalized ornaments and told you how in 1983 she began collecting (mostly) unbreakable cat ornaments after Rex destroyed a ton of glass balls. Here’s Rex, looking innocent…
Over the decades, the collection grew so large, it really needed a bigger tree. This year the ornaments have more room to spread out and breathe. The black cat ones really pop, like this little angel kitty, who honors Rex and all the kitties who lived their nine lives with Karen…
But the collection actually kicked off with this white kitty, many years before pure-white Fred and Adele joined the family…
Readers know we lost Adele in 2019 when she was nearly 20 years old. Her passing made room here for me, so I’m really grateful to her, although we never met. Roc told me not to be sad because she would have taken one look at me and whapped me. This furry ornament that honors Adele sits near the top of the tree for a good reason…
Cats LOVE furry ornaments! Karen learned this early with this red and white blob. It IS a cat, believe it or not. It also hangs near the top because it looks like something that needs to be killed and dropped at Karen’s feet. Any of us would be glad to do the job if only we could reach it…
Notice to the left of the furball is a lame cat-shaped life preserver. That’s an official Fancy Feast ornament from 2014 when they had apparently zero imagination, but more on Fancy Feast to come. On with the tour!
Karen thinks we haven’t noticed, but all over the tree she hid a bunch of Jingle Snitches she made one year with bells and ribbon, like this one…
Rest assured, we’ve mapped out where they all are and can play with the tree without tripping them. The tree also carries some warnings to humans, like this one…
Here’s another cute and silly ornament that looks like Adele if she played dress-up, which I’m told NEVER happened…
Since the Fancy Feast mascot is a very spoiled white Persian, their ornaments always look like Adele, like this furry one from 2005…
Since all but two of the Cats Working family have been black (I’m the first 50-50), we have a lot of black ornaments. On the old green tree, this little kitty who looks like Roc was always last to be put away because Karen could NEVER find him. But on the white tree, you can’t miss him…
We also have a few celebrities, like Garfield, dressed up as a bored caroler…
Here’s one that looks like Max…
And here’s one whose face looks like ME!…
I’m sitting nicely next to another VIP, Tweety Bird. Sylvester is here, too, but out of frame.
Here’s another one whose face looks like me, but it’s wearing Max’s usual irked expression. It’s kind of beat up, so it must be one of the oldest ornaments…
Now, THIS kitty wearing a hat and mittens looks most like me, except my legs are all white…
We have many, many Fancy Feast ornaments. Karen thinks her collection is missing only the first two. This was her first one in 1987, looking, of course, like Adele…
Many of the ornaments are intricate (and highly breakable), but in 2013, Fancy Feast utterly cheaped out with this one made of cardboard. They must have felt guilty about it, because they sent us two…
This 2021 Christmas cat cookie ornament is on the tree for the first time because Fancy Feast didn’t send it before Christmas last year. This one came with a cat-shaped cookie cutter, too, although I’m strongly against anybody eating cats, even for fun…
We had no hopes of getting the 2022 ornament in time, but as Karen and I were working on this post, it CAME in this mysterious box. (Did I tell you the packaging has become so elaborate, it’s collectable in itself?) Don’t miss Yours Truly peeking in the background…
Inside the box, the ornament is cradled like a precious heirloom, which I guess now it is. The cat looks more like Fred than Adele. Anybody got a can opener? I bet there’s a treat inside…
And here it is, taking its rightful place on the tree, beside the Fancy Feast 1995 model…
I hope you enjoyed my little tree tour. I’ve shown you only a fraction of what’s hanging on that thing, but these are some of my favorites. Happy, Safe and Healthy Holidays to all our readers. And never forget…
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