An annoyed mum has revealed the chaotic moment her 'chubby' cat 'almost set the house on fire' after he climbed her Christmas tree and sent it crashing down onto burning candles. Anna Scullion's artificial tree had only been up for half an hour when she realised 'troublemaker' Eric had jumped inside.
The 51-year-old began filming it to show friends yet just two seconds later she was left shrieking her cat's name as the four-foot tree toppled off its two-foot-tall table. Footage shows the top of the tree bash into a shelf just millimetres from her £500 TV and its lower half land on a table topped with three candles.
Baubles can even be heard smashing as they fall from the tree and 'clumsy' Eric, six, runs out of the room. Panicked Anna says she feared the house was going to catch fire so she leapt off the sofa to put the candles out and steady the fallen tree.
