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| 1308.1 | | CIRCUS::KOLLING | Karen, Sweetie, Holly; in Calif. | Tue Apr 26 1988 18:19 | 4 |
| But it was so much fun! And after all, leaving a puss for three
weeks without her consent, well, these owners have to be shown
their proper place!
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| 1308.2 | Maybe that's why Daisy is a space cadet! | VAXWRK::LEVINE | | Tue Apr 26 1988 19:16 | 25 |
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Re .0:
The following notes discuss plants poisonous to cats: 266, 320, and 757.
There are some pretty comprehensive lists there.
As for cats destroying plants, it seems that some do and some don't. When mine
were real young, I brought them to a friend's house when I was going away for
about 3 weeks. This friend had many plants in her apartment, some more than 10
years old. My little Daisy thought that she was queen of the jungle and I
watched her destroy a large diffenbachia (which I've since found out is
poisonous to cats although it didn't seem to have much of an effect on Daisy)
in the space of 15 minutes by shredding the entire plant and knocking the
stalks over. Within 5 days, Daisy had destroyed every plant my friend had.
Luckily my friend wasn't really concerned about the loss of all of her plants.
As a result, I have no plants. Once some guests brought me a small cactus
and I figured that the needles would be a built-in defense from the onslaught
of my cats. Then I watched Shamus try to bite the head off the cactus and
threw it out as well.
Many cats do like to eat greens to regulate their digestive system, so it's
not necessarily a physical problem.
Pam
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| 1308.3 | No more plants for me! | NAC::LACOUR | | Wed Apr 27 1988 10:04 | 6 |
| My mom's cat loved to eat cactus when he was young. He never touched
anything else. My own cats liked to eat spider plants and loved
large potted plants - they used those as a kitty box. They also
like Baby's Breath and would eat that too. Needless to say, I no
longer have plants in the house.
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| 1308.4 | | MPGS::NEALK | | Wed Apr 27 1988 11:29 | 11 |
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yesterday after work i planted some lily of the vallies, and while i
was reading the intructions on how deep etc... it warned harmful
if ingested, i dont know how close the two plants are related and or
how humans and animals reactions to different things compare. for a
piece of mind i would drop the vet a quick call and find out.
karan and princess
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| 1308.5 | | INDEBT::TAUBENFELD | Almighty SET | Wed Apr 27 1988 14:17 | 5 |
| Mielikki furred my African Violet to death. That's right, furred.
Her fur got clogged up in the hairy leaves and it couldn't get any
sunlight, so it died. I think it was pure jealousy on her part.
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| 1308.6 | Give the cat it's very own plant... | BSS::HOE | Colorado's the place to be. | Thu Apr 28 1988 13:05 | 5 |
| The plant lady at CXO suggested that I grow a pot of Spider plants
just for May-May. She even started me with a hand full of clippings
from several spider plant "babies".
/cal
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| 1308.7 | Spider plants...a no-no! | GRECO::MORGAN | Doris Morgan DTN 223-9594 | Sat Apr 30 1988 02:25 | 3 |
| My cats love to eat spider plants, but always barf them up immediately.
I would suggest you find another plant for your cat. Growing catnip
is an ideal solution!
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| 1308.8 | A little thousand island on the side | CLUSTA::TAMIR | ACMS design while-u-wait | Mon May 02 1988 13:21 | 11 |
| Easter lillies are not toxic. For some reason, my boys didn't touch
the one I have. Spider plants, according to my Honey, make the
best salad, but he does tend to 're-present' them on the white carpet.
He also tosses the kitty salad plants, as well.
For a real gourmet treat, Honey loves my rabbit's foot fern (fronds
only, of course). And I've given up on African violets; mine got
furred to death, too!
Mary
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| 1308.9 | Well groomed violets purr | SUBURB::COFFEYJ1 | | Fri Aug 26 1988 08:45 | 16 |
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I know this is about cats not african violets but when I was living
with my parents I had the same problem: 2 permenantly moulting cats
and a shelf with quite a few african violets. The solution I found
was when I went round watering the plants I'd take a stiff paint
brush or a toothbrush with me and brush the leaves on the violets,
it gets all the dust off them too. The plants seemed to do pretty
well with just a little grooming every now and then.
Jo
Reading, UK.
Recently promoted to mother-of-Whitley(a tiny tabby tom) and foster
mother to Spliffy(a little black and white kitten who used to be a
barn cat but is now totally 'humanised') but that's another story...
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