Blogmas Day 7: How to Decorate Your Christmas Tree when you Have Dogs with High Powered Tails

This is an instructional post on how to decorate your Christmas tree when you have dogs with high powered tails, so as to minimize the number of Christmas ornaments violently knocked off your Christmas tree by aggressively wagging dog tails. This is something I have learned the hard way as I have suffered many a Christmas ornament casualty in my years as a new dog mom. 

Firstly, your tree must be divided into three different sections:

1.) Low risk

2.) Moderate risk

3.) and High risk

The low risk section of your tree means it has the least amount of likelihood that your dogs' tail will take out an ornament in just one swing and have it shatter all over the ground. This risk-area will typically be more towards the top of your tree. In your low risk section of your Christmas tree you want to hang fragile ornaments, ornaments that have potential to break easily, or ornaments you'd rather not have to kill your dog over for breaking it. Example:

Look at all that glass and susceptibility to dying via a wagging dog tail. Death by dog tail.

The moderate risk-area of your tree has increased likelihood to have ornaments knocked off its branches with a few swipes of your doggo's tail. You will usually find your moderate risk-area around the mid-sections of your Christmas tree. Your moderate risk area may be subject to change depending on the height of your pet. Here, you can hang ornaments that are durable, cheap, or replaceable so as to mitigate the amount of heartache in the event a high powered wagging tail claims another victim. Example:

See? Nice and plastic.

Lastly, the high risk section of your Christmas tree (per process of elimination) is the lowermost part of your tree. Here, your ornaments are very likely to get knocked off your tannenbaum frequently and at high speeds. Hang either your unbreakable ornaments or nothing at all in this risk-area. I suggest soft, stuffed ornaments, similar to that of a pillow. Example:

This soft ornament gets hit deep into right field? No problem - pick it up, dust it off, return to tree. No harm no foul. 

Should you decorate your tree in accordance to the aforementioned risk assessment, you will save

both you and your puppers the heartache (or punishment) of suffering from broken and shattered

Christmas tree ornaments. You will also no longer have to consider chopping off your dogs’ tail because let’s face it, nobody wants that. That'd be messy.