To further expand on the cat wanting to eat the tree. I have these that my now dead mother hand made when I was a kid. They are made out of Double yolk turkey eggs. She did some quail eggs too but I could not find any fast to take a pic of. I have an ostrich egg in the living room that she decorated as well.
One memory from my youth. My mom would take a Dremel took and drill holes on each end of an egg and blow water into them to clean. One time she drilled the hole and the egg was rotten and exploded all over her. Made her really happy.
