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DrGoogfan
10-11-2009, 04:52 AM
i collect tropical plants. the only ones that arent chewed to a stub are the pointy cactuses...

HALP!
People
10-11-2009, 04:54 AM
Get the plants back when he is done with them and make it fertilizer for new plants!

Win Win situation, bojangles.
shopping cart for brains
10-11-2009, 04:54 AM
put frosting on your cats regular food
DrGoogfan
10-11-2009, 04:56 AM
put frosting on your cats regular food

cats dont cant taste sweetness. sucks for them.
Hammer Tank
10-11-2009, 04:58 AM
put hot peppers on them he may eat it once, but i bet he won't a second time lol
DrGoogfan
10-11-2009, 04:59 AM
put hot peppers on them he may eat it once, but i bet he won't a second time lol

hmm, mabe some franks hot sauce... ill give it a shot.
SHARP
10-11-2009, 04:13 PM
Cats eating plants isn't uncommon, but to my knowledge it isn't clear exactly why they do it although some plants appear to get them high or something similar.

Does your cat ever get a chance to go outside, or is it a strictly indoor cat?
DrGoogfan
10-11-2009, 08:27 PM
Cats eating plants isn't uncommon, but to my knowledge it isn't clear exactly why they do it although some plants appear to get them high or something similar.

Does your cat ever get a chance to go outside, or is it a strictly indoor cat?

shes outside right now.
Konglomo
10-11-2009, 08:35 PM
You should buy more cacti.
pimpstrocity
10-11-2009, 08:45 PM
show your cat a video of a cat eating a plant then punch it in the face, rinse and repeat till problem is solved
Really Awesome Nickname
10-11-2009, 08:51 PM
maybe feed your cat OP :confused:
-SpectraL
10-11-2009, 08:53 PM
The cat is having digestive problems.
Iskalla
10-11-2009, 08:54 PM
Can't you put orange peel around them, to repel the cat?
Midnight Sun
10-11-2009, 08:59 PM
replace them with marijuana;):thumbsup:
shopping cart for brains
10-11-2009, 09:42 PM
replace them with marijuana;):thumbsup:

Not only can humans not get high unless the THC was once at a certain temperature, but I don't think cats can actually get high off off marijuana.
-SpectraL
10-11-2009, 09:45 PM
...but I don't think cats can actually get high off off marijuana.Fucking right they can.

I got mine high one night, and we ended up playing euchre into the wee hours of the morning.
unstableasatable
10-11-2009, 10:08 PM
one of my cats used to do the same. turneed out he had some red blood cell problems. now hes on pills and dosnt do it anymore,
so yh, keep an eye out for any other ill symtoms and maybe de worm and stuff.
may sure the cat is fully vacine updated and has or had its lastest check up. but im no vet, probably best to ask them if uts usual behaviour just to make sure
DrGoogfan
10-12-2009, 02:48 AM
mabe it jsut wants fiber?
rabbitweed
10-12-2009, 02:50 AM
show your cat a video of a cat eating a plant then punch it in the face, rinse and repeat till problem is solved

lmao, that was brilliant.
DrGoogfan
10-12-2009, 02:52 AM
well i'll mix hot sauce and water and spray the plants. ill keep this updated with the results.
AsylumSeaker
10-12-2009, 02:54 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqGDv0KCJl8
SHARP
10-12-2009, 06:11 PM
shes outside right now.

Without being a cat expert or anything, I'd say it sounds like it isn't lack of fiber that makes your cat eat the plants, but more like she's getting high. Have you noticed any behavioral changes after she's been munching on your plants?
DrGoogfan
10-12-2009, 07:23 PM
Without being a cat expert or anything, I'd say it sounds like it isn't lack of fiber that makes your cat eat the plants, but more like she's getting high. Have you noticed any behavioral changes after she's been munching on your plants?

not really. plus i dont think that spider plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum) can get something high.
SHARP
10-12-2009, 09:38 PM
^^Then I'm all out of suggestions, try looking in the compendium stickied at the top of the forum front page, chances are that there's a poster in the "Mammals" section you could contact and have them take a look at your problem.
Hammer Tank
10-13-2009, 01:34 AM
hey Sharp I have a brachypelma smithi that ate a white mouse like this one. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/1794685758_dca48b8382.jpg

it was really cool, have you ever seen anything like that before? It was an accident, they were in a divided cage but the mouse squeezed through. I didn't think the spider could kill something so big.
Yodabutter
10-13-2009, 01:43 AM
Eat the cat.
DrGoogfan
10-13-2009, 01:44 AM
Eat the cat.

epic fail
SHARP
10-13-2009, 08:17 PM
hey Sharp I have a brachypelma smithi that ate a white mouse like this one. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/1794685758_dca48b8382.jpg

it was really cool, have you ever seen anything like that before? It was an accident, they were in a divided cage but the mouse squeezed through. I didn't think the spider could kill something so big.

Not in person, usually you wouldn't feed what appears to be an adult mouse to a medium sized spider, but I've seen a clip of a Grammostola rosea taking down a mouse its own size (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7wxug7cG7s), and the spider looks like a sub adult.

I know it sounds pretty far out that spiders, those "simple and ugly creatures" could take down something so much more complex and intelligent as a mammal or bird, but they do anyways - and some of them will most likely be feeding on a fairly vertebrate-rich diet due to their own size and lack of equally big insects.
Treefingers.s
10-13-2009, 08:20 PM
Buy more cacti, and put them around your house plants, stopping your cat from eating them.

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