My cat Gizmo [link] and [link] does this to. He eats it then barf. Then he remembers why he stopped eating the fake tree the year before. But does it again the next day...
HAHAHAHA! My Aby Jacoby wants to eat my fake tree, too. It's back in the back now, waiting to go to storage...and he's UNZIPPING THE BAG to chew on the branches. No lie.
The fake needles probably looked and smelled too interesting not to try them.