The tree lasted 20 minutes before being knocked down, due to the weight of three black furry decorations putting themselves on the tree at the same time. I thought they would be less interested seeing as last year they were just kittens, but now they are too heavy to climb it but do anyway.
I think I'm going to put mine up next Wednesday with just the lights at first, to see how my new girl reacts. It will be up on a table, like in the picture I posted above.
Hopefully, she won't care too much after an initial check it out. Then, I will decorate the next day to have it done for the weekend.
I think what will also help is I just can barely get my grapevine star on it. I have to wedge it against the ceiling a tiny bit, so that also helps keep it stable.