Can you hang pots in front of windows or from ceiling? Might be a good way to keep them safe.

Maybe plant stands, the kind usually made out of metal, which hold a plant with no extra space for the cats to jump onto.

Thankyou

My cat can't resist any plant with grass like leaves like palms. He doesn't try to eat my sansevieria, he does enjoy rubbing his face on the ends shorter leaves though.

One of my three cats is a notorious plant muncher, and also can't resist the leafy ones. He doesn't touch most of the cacti & succulents. I have some of them on some accessible sills, also African violets. Anything else is up high on shelves, or hanging ... and I have started collecting wall sconces. These are great to keep the most munchable and/or toxic plants in a place where Dave can't get them :) my monstera (middle pic) is supported from the ceiling on hooks.

Sorry for the poorly lit photos. I'm hanging out in the dark having my coffee :-P

kd

I had a dedicated room where we used to live. If they accidentally got in it was a massacre. Esp. To my 3foot palms. Anything shaped like a spider plant was fair game.

Omg, Dave looooves spider Plants. I simply can't have large floor plants, and especially no palms or trees of any sort. He's a menace.

I had a repotted draecena marginata on the floor for 3.5 seconds while I put on shoes to take it out to the car (to my office - away from plant munchers) and he had materialized there beside it and was about to munch!!! He punctured the leaf with his teeth, but didn't get a real bite. I almost had a heart attack.

Behold, Fat Dave in all his glory LOL

He also enjoys molesting my yarn. Pictured here, with a skein he managed to locate despite it being hidden in a bag of groceries:

LOL!!! They are so cute. The one of Cinder looks like a mug shot if you read it along with the captions!!

The only plant that's ever sat on the floor was a large ficus that my cats lost interest in after their first taste except when one of them demonstrated its disdain for something I'd done by sitting beside it until I noticed it was giving me the stink-eye, then pretending to take a bite.

Misha, the survivor of the pair, loves to chew dead dracaena leaves that fall to the floor so she can throw up a few times, usually in a dark passageway where I won't see it until I've stepped in it. She'd done this several times before I knew the leaves are toxic, so I've got anecdotal evidence that dried dracaena leaves are no worse for cats than anything else that makes her throw up, like cat grass, corn husks, or beet greens.

Not that you should let your cats do it. Who knows, maybe she's a magic cat with a natural immunity to dracaena poison. At 23 years old, she's sure survived a lot!

Loving the kitty pics

Theo - yep, charger cables with teeth marks here, too Lol. Cinder is a doll. I agree, Lauren...mugshot material right there haha!

litterbuggy - Misha is beautiful, and looking good for 23! Wow

Dave has had a taste or two of my monsteras, and suffered no ill effects other than the usual yakking up piles of goo. I still do my best to keep them away from him, though. He will pull celery from a grocery bag to eat the greens, and recently stole a parsnip lol. He *loves* broccoli too. He's a weirdo.

kd

Misha doesn't get any dracaena leaves, but she's crazier for corn husks than anything else I know of, and when I bring some home from the farm stand she won't settle down until I've given her a green strip of the inner part of the husk to chew. Usually the consequences aren't real big...

But I thing that's over now, because after watching her decline over the past few weeks I'm almost ready to admit that she's almost certainly on her way out. She's been so indestructible that part of me still thinks she might pull through, but after getting her back on her feet many times over the past few years the vet can't seem to find anything to fix because she doesn't even show signs of being in pain (thank heaven). She's always had a humongous personality, and it's sad to see her fade away.

Awwww *hugs* I've been there, and it's not an easy thing to go through.

My cat who had never chewed any of my plants, decided to munch the draecena. I bought some "Grannick's Bitter Apple" at the pet store and sprayed the plants lightly with it. It worked and didn't seem to hurt the plants or floor at all. I haven't had to spray them in months.

Thinking of you and Misha. She looks like my Gypsy and Patches did.

Sherry, Charley looks like a bit of a troublemaker!

Thanks for the kind thoughts. Misha had a better day today, which is nice. Each of her more perky days is another chance to give her a little more love.

Litterbuggy- glad Misha is doing better. We have to cherish each day with them. Seems too short. She is beautiful.

It's too bad I have so few good pictures of her, because the vet would like to put her in next year's Old Cats calendar. I've never really learned how to use a digital camera for anything but simple snapshots, and her camouflage fur makes her head and blend into a blob unless the light or camera settings are just right.

Lenore

Loving all the cat photos! So cute!

I have two cats, but this probably depends on how agile your cats are.

Because my cats are old, and sort of chunky, they can't really jump onto high tables anymore. So I have a "plant table" set up in front of the bright windows in my apartment. I hang a few things and use high shelves on other walls as well.

Anything leafy (pothos, philos, dracaena, palms) is going to look like a salad to cats. My one especially stubborn cat will take a small chunk out of my dwarf sans every now and then, only to be reminded that it tastes terrible, and she spits it out. That's probably the only plant I have that's low enough for them to access.