: Pet Safety how to Prepare your Home for the Holidays

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You may consider child safety when preparing your home for the holidays, but it is also important to consider pet safety as well. You want to protect your furry, feathery, scaly and other friends as well as your holiday decorations.
Carefully prepare your Christmas tree
If you celebrate Christmas and have a tree, then you will need to consider your pets. You do not want glass balls beckoning to your dog or cat. Some people will put unbreakable ornaments. Some will have the ornaments be higher. Others will put a fence or other barrier around it to help keep the animal away. You may also choose a location where the animal cannot get to it.
You also want to make sure that the animal could not cause the entire tree to tip over. Make sure that it is solid or perhaps anchored to something.
Put up decorations away from animals
There are many different holiday decorations that you may have in your home. You may have a little train set or a miniature holiday village. When you set these up, do so with your pets in mind. If you think that your small dog would go after a train set, then consider putting it on a table for instance. If your cat can jump on a wreath that is mounted too low, then mount it higher. You may also want to put some of the more delicate decorations into rooms the animals do not frequent. You can also put decorations behind glass or plastic as long as the animal cannot get past it.
Make sure that holiday treats are out of reach of the animals
You may have many more treats or food around the house when the holidays are there. You may have frequent dinner parties and guests, and you may leave these things out. If you do, you want to make sure that your animal cannot get to them. Put them in containers the animal cannot reach. Many of those are not only unhealthy for animals but could potentially be dangerous as well.
Protect wires through which animals could chew
Many of the holiday decorations light up. If you have such decorations, then you want to be sure that your animal does not chew through the wires, possibly hurting them or you or doing other damage. There are different ways that you can protect your animal from these. First you can mount them on walls, put them behind furniture or otherwise place them where the animals cannot get to them. There are also products that you can put around the wiring to help protect it from the animals. You can put these lit items somewhere where the animal will not be.
Holiday decorations can turn your home into a magical place, but if it hurts your pet, then it will be anything but joyful. The above tips can help you prepare your home for the festive season while taking the welfare of your animals into account.