Protecting Christmas tree from 10 week old puppy

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Any ideas anyone?

I currently have a large (real) Christmas Tree sitting outside of the office door and a 10 week old puppy in the house.
I've seen 'Christmas Tree protector' fencing on Amazon but it looks rather flimsy.
Does anyone have any good solutions to the new puppy/Christmas tree combo?
 
I just have a very small gold glittery tree I got from Debenhams years ago and it goes on a table, small house and dog and large tree are not compatible for me. You could try a baby/puppy pen, or pick something up of Facebook marketplace.
 
My solution is only to have artificial trees when we have puppies or young dogs about. However have you thought about looking at tree guards? There are various different types and thicknesses or else you could consider a dog/ baby play pen. They come to pieces and so are sectional so you could make it square or triangular, or else two wood burner fire guards.
 
At 10 weeks old, I wouldn’t really expect a puppy to be left unattended in the presence of anything it could get into mischief with. Have the tree and keep an eye on any unwanted attention towards it, then train the behaviour.

Our youngest was 12 weeks last Christmas and after the first couple of days, with training, the novelty wore off. We put up this years tree today and he hasn’t even glanced in its direction.
 
Fireguard adapted as appropriate… so put the tree where it can be fenced off.
Our very pagan tree is decorated with pheasants, doves and deer in the main and the puppy just brings us the decorations all evening. Keeps her happy. 🤣. She is 8 months though.
She also like poking the standing Father Christmas so he wobbles 🤣
 
2 years ago, I had an 11 week old puppy at Christmas, having picked her up the week before.
I put up the artificial tree having rummaged in the loft for it. She was never left unattended but when she tried to investigate a few times, our big fluffy cat Ed went under it, peerng out - and bopped her on the nearest body part available.
He was 7.5kg, she was then 2.2kg!
Last Christmas, she just wasn't interested to do more than sniff it.

Past young cats and kittens.... argh! Smaller tree, on a table, wire coat hanger pulled apart, twisted to top and secured to window handle, did the job to prevent crashing to floor in its entirety.
 
Clodagh said:
Fireguard adapted as appropriate… so put the tree where it can be fenced off.
Our very pagan tree is decorated with pheasants, doves and deer in the main and the puppy just brings us the decorations all evening. Keeps her happy. 🤣. She is 8 months though.
She also like poking the standing Father Christmas so he wobbles 🤣
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I would LOVE to see a picture of your tree. I’ve been adding interesting stuff to mine, a post box, a telephone box, a rather large Eiffel Tower, lots of Star Wars figures.
Clodagh said:
This mornings first offering 😃
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Clever girl! I cannot believe she’s 8 months. Where has this year gone?!
 
lizziebell said:
At 10 weeks old, I wouldn’t really expect a puppy to be left unattended in the presence of anything it could get into mischief with. Have the tree and keep an eye on any unwanted attention towards it, then train the behaviour.

Our youngest was 12 weeks last Christmas and after the first couple of days, with training, the novelty wore off. We put up this years tree today and he hasn’t even glanced in its direction.
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I don't leave the puppy unattended full stop! However the word 'no' can get quite repetitive so looking to avoid temptation as best I can 😉
 
At 4 yrs old the Hooligan is still obsessed with nicking stuff so tree goes behind a baby gate!

Current cat isn’t bothered and has no interest in climbing it luckily (previous cat was obsessed and I think “helping” with tree construction / decorating was the highlight of his year!)


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Ours isn’t actually up this year yet but this was last year (complete with illicit tissue paper!)
 
When Loki (my Weimaraner) was a puppy we strategically put the Christmas tree in the corner of the living room so that at least two of the sides of the tree were protected from his zoomie moments, and to protect the rest, we popped two of our single chairs in front - means the tree could go up and be decorated, with little to no risk of Loki's silver snout getting close enough to undress the tree 😆 It also still means that the whole tree can be seen, but damage control is at a high, whilst still giving Christmas spirit x So it looked like the attached diagram (apologies for rubbish art - not my forte aha!) x Xmas Tree Safety.png


We had more of a concern with Sid my Mum's Border Collie backing into the tree with his arse and almost sending it flying 🤣
 
Aperchristmas said:
Ahem. You can't post a thread asking for puppy advice without a picture of said puppy, them's the rules.
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It seems that there are no puppy pics , ☹️. Breaking rules I’m afraid , if OP has an I phone the latest update seems to have removed the option to resize the pics as I tried to put one on earlier and failed so that may be why
 
Aperchristmas said:
Ahem. You can't post a thread asking for puppy advice without a picture of said puppy, them's the rules.
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just re-usong some of the pics from the 'he's here's thread. I will re-size some new ones soon 😁
 

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