Cat Repeatedly Caught Roosting in Upper Branches of New House Plant
We got a "mass cane" for our living room. I'm not sure if it's a house plant, or a house tree? It's huge, with the pot and everything it's about seven feet tall. It's a groovy-looking tree, basically three trunks, each 3-5 feet tall, with palm-like branches on top. Car can't stand it. She can't stay out of the damn tree. She's getting dirt all over and is killing it. We've only had it a week, and it already looks like crap. We're bad plant people to begin with, but Car is not helping the situation at all. We keep a spray bottle nearby and try to blast her when we see her getting near it, but that only works when we're standing there guarding it. Any suggestions?
posted by Ugly Juice @ 10:37 AM
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Oh the joys of cats and plants. First of all, make sure she isn't eating it, many plants are highly toxic for kitties which I am sure you already knew. I had to mention it, I would feel horrible if I didn't and Car got really sick munching on your new tree.
As for keeping her off of it: I used water and vinegar mixture to spray the cats in a squirt gun. I wore it on my belt, old west style and would nail Trouble every time she did something naughty (sharpening claws on non-approved items, eating plants rather than her cat grass and so on) cats HATE vinegar and it only takes a few times of getting hit with that to keep them away. The H2O to vinegar ratio is 10:1 it's worth having your house smell kind of funky for a while to get the hairy bugger to knock it off. The other thing I can recommend is mixing in cayenne pepper with the soil - not explosively hot, but the mild store bought stuff. Once Car associates the hot stuff on her paws (when she cleans the muck off after cavorting in lovely new plant) she will learn that the plant is BAD. My old cat Chester loved to crap in my parent’s plants. He was a total weirdo, but didn't like to crap in them after he got the hot paws. Good luck with that!
Oooh, I love the Cayenne pepper idea. Since the spray bottle isn't really working (though we haven't yet tried vinegar) we're going to load the sucker up with pepper. Actually, Shad is doing it right now. Stay tuned.
I had a very large palm tree once and the dog kept trying to climb it (OK, she was a weird dog.) I found some "stay off" spray at Pet Co that seems to work. I couldn't smell it, but the dog started sneezing everytime it went near the tree. Worth a look?
Worth a look. The cayenne pepper is NOT working. I'm sitting here working on some homework and I just looked up to see Car plastered to the side of the tree. Again. uuurrrrgggghhhhhh.
Another solution might be..let's see...you could...
LOCK HER IN A DRESSER DRAWER OVER NIGHT.
THAT was an accident, and anyway, she didn't seem to mind it and didn't pee on your clothes or anything.
Oh my goodness, I had a big laugh at that one!
-LA
Me MEGARA.
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