Anyone know of anything to keep my cat from eating my plants?

We love our cats, but we cant seem to stop them from eating our plants. Here are some neat ways to get your kitty to stop the bad habbits.

We love our cats, but we cant seem to stop them from eating our plants. Here are some neat ways to get your kitty to stop the bad

habbits.

1. Take Chili powder (the spice you cook with) and lightly dust or sprinkle your plants. This works great. Cats will not touch them again if the chili powder stays on. Make sure when watering you don’t rinse the chili all off.

2. Place double-sided sticky tape on the area surrounding the plant. Your cat will hate how this feels on his/her paws and soon stop going there.

3. Place aluminum foil on the area surrounding the plant. Most cats hate this feeling on their feet.

4. One good solution is to put plant stakes around the outside of your cat's favorite plants. This can create a barrier such that your cat can't even get to the off-limit plants.

5. Place upside down mouse traps on the area surrounding the plant and then put a piece of wax paper over that (some pet stores even have an official version of this old home-made trick). When your cat walks on the wax paper it will get an unsuspecting scare. After a while your cat will learn that this area is more trouble than it is worth. This method can be tricky so be careful that your cat doesn't accidentally get him/herself caught in a trap.

6. - Place plastic liners bottom side up (with the little pokey parts facing up) surrounding the plant. Your cat will not like how that feels on his/her paws at all.

7. - Purchase a cat repellant spray at your local pet store. Just make sure that the spray will be safe for your specific plants.

8. Spray the top and bottoms of the leaves with some diluted perfume. The cat will follow the smell and try to nibble on the plant. That normally will be followed by a mad dash to the water bowl to get rid of the taste.

9. Another method to treat your plants is to use Grannick’s Bitter Apple® Spray on them. The product is not harmful but the taste is bad (for cats and dogs). A few licks of Bitter Apple will cure your cat from ever touching the plant again.

I hope it helped and you cat stops eating your plants!

Sadie :)

Find out what plants you have in your home, and either remove the ones that are toxic, or put them in a place where the cats can't get to them.

For the rest, try spraying the leaves with Bitter Apple, which just makes them taste awful. It doesn't smell and will not hurt your plants or your cat, it just makes them taste nasty.

If your cat really likes greens, you can find oat-grass growing kits at many pet stores (they sell it as Cat Grass). You can sprout this grass in a container and let your cat eat it. That, coupled with the bitter apple, may help teach your cat that there are "acceptable" plant treats, and those that are better left alone!

This habit killed my all time favorite cat (at age 13), this was 15 years ago. She got into some dangerous plants in the basement and got very sick and died! She loved plants, leaves, chewing on branches, anything green. I loved that cat, now I dont have a cat anymore (I recently moved and gave away my last cat). if I could have one cat back even at age 13 which she was, I would give a mint!

There's a spray you can buy and the taste of it should repel your cat. Also, try keeping him/her occupied with cat toys or catnip etc. There's no point in moving your plants because if your cat wants it, it WILL get to it. Cats are like monkeys! They'll climb atop anything if it spots something it wants.

Ok all you have to do is put some bitter sour stuff on the plants and the next time he chews on it he wil taste it. (put it on until he stops.)

feed him enough fish and keep the plants away from him

http://amby.com/cat_site/plants.html

links to many plants toxic to cats websites.

I grow chives and half my cats like them.

lemon juice