When the holiday season comes around, cats can suddenly become wild and unstoppable destroyers. Especially if owners haven’t put some work into protecting their Christmas trees. Scroll down to see the funniest examples of cat battles with Christmas trees (spoiler: the trees always lose)!

Rule number 1,850,615 why cats are jerks
I <3 cats.
I hate Christmas and cats.
Cats naturally assume the tree is a wonderful new cat toy to play with.
They are so independent—much just as we are. Many people don’t like cats because they’re so independent with the belief that they are destructive, hunt and kill. Humans are far more destructive and have proved their dislike of one another in so many more ways throughout history, while killing animals just for pleasure and sport.
The ones were the cat is in the tree, it looks like the TREE is winning.
doot doot