Conference misery::feline

      Yup!! And that is the USUAL and normal reaction when a cat eats
    grass. Usually what they throw up is just grass and mucous. I guess it
    has soemthing to do with cleaning thier digestive tract out or
    something.
      Another thing that you may want to try is 'alfalfa' sprouts. I've
    grown some of that and the vomiting doesn't seem to go with that like
    it does with grass. 
    
      In the summer we usually let our cats into the fenced-in dog kennel
    area where there is a lot of grass growing...we always supervise these
    excursions, and it's a panic to see all of them "grazing" like a bunch
    of little feline sheep....and then they all barf...
    
    
      John McD

    Sounds funny, but throwing up is good also because they send up hair
    balls along with the grass and mucous.
    
    -Nancy

    	When am I going to learn not to read this notes file durning lunch?
    Anyone want my salad?
    
    Mike

    I grew some of that grass for my babies since they're indoor cats
    
    They never touched it-go figure
    
    shannon
    

    The little plastic pot ones are really expensive if you keep buying
    them, about $1 apiece.
    
    I bought one of those sacks of seeds and dirt from TreeHouse, and
    I just refill a plastic pot.  Saves mucho dinero.
    

    RE: .1
    
    Actually what he threw up was his dinner (re-gurgitated IAMS all
    over the place!)
    
    Sooooo, is it recommended to have one of these type plants around?
    I mean, I don't want him throwing upp all the time!?
    

    Mine does not like grass. She eats my wife's roses. But flowers can be
    dangerous. So I put half a handful of wheat in a small flowerpot. After
    a week it's grown grassy. I swap two pots. She loves them and normally
    does not vomit from. If she has inner problems, then she chomps a lot
    of that wheat, and then she clears herself from hairballs etc. Nice
    from her, that she's doing it in the bath tub...
    
    Nat

    RE: .7
    
    Where does one find "wheat" plants/seeds?

    Local grain mill or feed store...
    
    Whole oats work well for growing a kitty grazing pot, too!
    
    

    I've been growing wheat/oates for them for years and they love it.  We
    always keep several pots going so they don't run out.
    
    Giudi

    TreeHouse sells them thru its catalog,  also pet stores have the
    little dishes.
    

    Mine loves babys breath from my flowers or when I am doing craft stuff.
    She will sit with her head buried in the flower arrangement on my
    kitchen table for hours just snacking away on them.  I joined her last
    night in doing this from the other side of the bouquet (I wasn't really
    eating it - just teasing her) - of course thats when my husband walked 
    in and now think that I have completely lost my mind.  
    
    Is this harmful?  She doesn't throw it up.
    
    

    Several of the FIRM like green onions. In the spring, when my onions
    start to sprout, I put them in water to let them grow a bit more. Alex
    loves them (but it doesn't do much for her breath).
    
    Deb

    I can't keep flower arrangements around - Nebula eats the babysbreath
    and The Fickle eats the ferns.  Neither seems to be able to keep the
    demolished flower arrngement down, though...  about on par with letting
    them eat grass.  They don't seem to be any the worse for doing this
    (they are getting to be old kitties these days, but don't tell THEM
    that!), but their human servants don't appreciate cleaning up after
    them so we try to make sure that any flower arrangements that do arrive
    are displayed someplace the cats can't get at.
    
    /Charlotte

    
    
       Domino doesn't care much for the grass, but Tykey absolutely loves it.
      I put a tray down for them yesterday and she ran over to it and 
      started eating it.  She does get sick sometimes after eating it.
    
      In the summer last year when she was out with her harness, she would
      walk around and around til she found the right grass spot to start
      munching on.
    
    Diana
                                                                      

    Since I started giving Eddie Haskell his own tray of grass (he's an
    indoor cat), he hasn't been quite as obessive about chewing on the
    house plants as he was.
    
    ng

    Before we moved to our house, I sprouted bird food for the cats.  Just
    put a thin layer of dirt in a plant saucer, and press some bird food
    (mixed) into the dirt; water it, and in a few days it will sprout. 
    It's a lot cheaper than buying the packaged "kitty greens".
    
    Mutu liked to eat chives, and she'd come over to Munch and meow.  Munch
    would make a face, turn his head away, and poor Mutu had to sleep by
    herself the rest of the day/night.  Talk about "kittitosis"!!
    
    ;-)

    Jimmy is the one for flowers and grass in our house. He doesn't seem to 
    mind what sort they are - I've even known him to chew up silk flower 
    arrangements! Dried flowers go down pretty well, too. I do have problems
    with him, though, because I do the flower-arranging for my Church and
    usually have my flowers in a bucket for a day or too. Jimmy has been
    known to scoff the lot, resulting in a hasty trip to the garage for
    replacements. Carnations and freesias are his favourites, with roses
    close behind.
    He also loves house-plants: all my spider-plants have chewed and broken
    leaves, and he totally destroyed a dragon-tree (ate leaves, sat on the
    stem).

    Re; Jimmy
    
    I think spider plants have a mildly toxic substance in them, so it's
    probably best to not let Jimmy at them. (What's a dragon tree?)
    

    re:19
    
    It's full name is Madagascar dragon tree (part of the Dracaena group -
    I think that is how you spell it). Its stalk is like a minature 
    palm tree and the top (crown) is like a spider plant, but dark green
    narrow leaves with a thin red border. It was a lovely looking plant till 
    Jimmy demolished it.
    
    I didn't know about the spider plants being toxic. My cat "bible" does
    have a list of poisonous plants, such as Ivy, which I won't buy, but
    they admitted that the list was not exhaustive. I suppose they only 
    included the really dangerous ones. I'll certainly move the spider plants 
    out of reach though. It doesn't seem to have affected him so far (they're 
    his favourite alternative to grass), but I'm not taking any chances.
    
    He'll have to stick to the carnation leaves (and rose petals, and
    freesias and Gypsophilia and September and....!!!)