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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

1308.0. "Cat eating Easter Lilly" by VLS5::ALEXANDER () Tue Apr 26 1988 21:10

    
     I have been taking care of my parents Cat ( mine before I
    left home...) Smitty and I discovered she has some weird habbits...
    
    My mom who is on vacation in Hawaii for three weeks dropped of
    Smitty along with many of the plants she received at Easter...
    About a week ago I noticed the Easter Lillys had been destroted!
    Chewed to shreds!  I had put them up in a sunny window upstairs
    and only gone to water them once, not noticing anything the first
    time!  Then I caught Smitty in the Act! Eating the lillys! 
    
    Does any one know if they can be harmful?  There's no bringing
    the plant back to mom's now... well at least it was Smitty who
    ate them~!  My own ( Yaddie ) has never done thaT and I have a
    jungle of plants....and Smitty, back when I lived at home 6 yrs
    ago never used to.... could this be a sign of a medical condition
    in Smitty?   
                                                           
    Any way *another* weird thing....it takes a front end loader
    to clean up the area around her box!  Can these things be out of
    spite?  I've given nothing but pure love and lots of attention...
    Get lots of sweet purring and rollong around in return...I know
    smitty still remembers me and knows she's loved....she even rubs
    noses with yaddie!  So she seems happy....maybe it's my DAD she
    misses!!!
    oh well, she goes home tomorrow eve...  I'M GONNA MISS HER NOW!
    
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1308.1CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren, Sweetie, Holly; in Calif.Tue Apr 26 1988 21:194
    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!
    
1308.2Maybe that's why Daisy is a space cadet!VAXWRK::LEVINETue Apr 26 1988 22:1625
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
1308.3No more plants for me!NAC::LACOURWed Apr 27 1988 13:046
    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.
    
1308.4MPGS::NEALKWed Apr 27 1988 14:2911
    
    
    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
    
                                                               
1308.5INDEBT::TAUBENFELDAlmighty SETWed Apr 27 1988 17:175
    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.
    
    
1308.6Give the cat it's very own plant...BSS::HOEColorado's the place to be.Thu Apr 28 1988 16:055
    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
1308.7Spider plants...a no-no!GRECO::MORGANDoris Morgan DTN 223-9594Sat Apr 30 1988 05:253
    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!
1308.8A little thousand island on the sideCLUSTA::TAMIRACMS design while-u-waitMon May 02 1988 16:2111
    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
    
1308.9Well groomed violets purrSUBURB::COFFEYJ1Fri Aug 26 1988 11:4516
    
    
    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...