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Alternate Title: New Olympic Event --Synchronized Pot-Napping
Boots + Growlie. Both females. about 3 months.
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We buy them catbeds --- and where do they like to sleep?
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exactly!!!! My kitty Petite used to sleep on my knitting 
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Not to forget ... the dishdraining tray ...Β Β ... the office intray ...Β Β ... the linen closetΒ Β ... freshly-laundered towels ...Β Β ... the keyboard ...Β
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... these kitties just won't believe that the potted plants were NOT their play-things ... nor their beds!
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To be honest Ive never cats do that lol. They sure sleep in the strangest places
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Sorry for the terribly late response!
There's something about cats and potted plants, I swear ...
all our cats are like that ... you would have to pry them out with a crowbar!
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That's adorable,But I can't imagine how mad my Mom would be if she saw my cats doing that!
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oh-ho-hoh ... then she'll surely freak if she sees this [link] or this [link] or this [link]
thanks for the faves too!
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Yeah,if my mom saw my cat's doing any of that,she would have a panic attack!
No problem!
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They sleep where they want to! xD
Really cute!!
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Aye ... and potted plants are one of the hottest faves!
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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HAHAHA! Yeah, the potted plants are really the faves!!! xDD
Oh, you are welcome! ><
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ahhh...thank you so much for taking the time to comment!
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My cats love pots too - but rather as emergency potties than beds. I sort-of wish they were more like your cats in this sense XD
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Ahh ... my cats play in them [link] sleep in them [link] even eat the plants in them [link] and just sit and enjoy [link] , but they don't use them as potties, thank goodness!
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Thanks for coming in to comment!
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I see you are not the most successful potted plant grower. Do cats have anything to do with this?
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It's a process called I-BUY-THEY-DIE or rather I-BUY-THEY-GET-SHREDDED
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I used to have great house plants but this house is too dark to grow much indoors so I settle for outside ones but since my cat isn't allowed outside for reasons we've talked about they are in no danger except from excess heat or like last week a mere 25ΒΊF (-3.9ΒΊC). However, I can relate to the process.
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hehheh..know what's amazing? these two potted plants are still alive! 14+ years on and they've survived the cats and the move to the new house! That twig-on-a-bulbous-stem-in-the-grey-pot even has an offspring...my sis successfully took a cutting from one of its branches after they grew out.
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I had an asparagus fern like that as well as come creeping charlie but both are now long gone. Cool that your sis was able to promogate the bulb one.
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Grow things we are quite good at...it's the pests that are a problem. Because of the cats, we don't use pesticides, and many of our herbs and fruiting plants are destroyed by various pests. Any suggestions for cat-safe natural pesticides?
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Actually, yes, food grade edible diatomaceous earth, not the calcined form used for pool filters, sand free, average particle size 40 microns. I've used it for years for my gardens, horses, dogs, cats, to get rid of insects, worm animals (only effective against intestinal parasites) and to control flies particularly around the horses. Cats are very susceptible to toxic reactions to pesticides, even the organic ones, because they don't have the liver enzymes necessary to process plant material or most essential oils because they are true carnivores. Although permethrins, the synthetic pyrethroids, are more toxic to cats than the natural pyrethrins, cats can even have adverse reactions to the natural forms from african daisys or chrysanthemum. The down side of DE is that it is a fine white powder. However, that didn't bother me as much as the insects. It's not a fast kill but being it works mechanically by scrapping the waxy coating off the insects there is no immunity to it either. Given time, it is very effective. Obviously, you will have to reapply it after rain washes it off or the wind blows it off.
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I've come across this - it is one of the ingredients in this cat health supplement that I ordered from the USA. But I have not seen it around in the shops here. I will look for it on the net.
Hey, I was given to understand that natural pyrethrins are relatively harmless! Grrr...never believe the blurb that comes on the product!! Ok, I have to throw out the ant powder I use occasionally.
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If worst comes to worst, I can send you a package of it as I still have several hundred pounds of it (136+kg) but I couldn't guess the cost of shipping to you which would depend on how many kg you want.
No, natural pyrethrins can be harmful to fish, reptiles, and true carnivores but some individual carnivores within any given species tolerates it better than others. However, I wouldn't be too quick to throw it out. Fortunately, it breaks down into a harmless substance quickly, within about 24 hours, and breaks down quickly in stomach acid. Breathing it in like from a spray or a collar or being completely bathed in it have been implicated in most feline toxic reactions and usually they come out of it on their own within 24 hours. As long as you only use it occasionally, I wouldn't worry about it. I've used it around my cats periodically without any trouble, even spraying behind my couch or under my bed for kissing bugs. I just make sure I don't use it a great deal or frequently. And I keep my cat out of the area I've sprayed until most of the odor is gone so they aren't breathing it out of the air.
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Hang on to that offer...let me see what I can find on the net. It is not so urgent as it is the monsoon season now and it rains almost everyday, so I probably won't start using it around the plants till it dries out.
24 hours...ahhh, that's good to know! I use it occasionally, to control the ant problem, and mostly outdoors (where it's well-ventilated) and in the kitchen (which is a cat-free zone).
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OK, the amount I have left from the horses isn't going anywhere immediately although I do occasionally sell a 50# (22,7kg) bag to horse or cattle owners. I still have plenty.
Yes, the uses you are describing would be well within acceptable perimeters without endangering your cats. And compared to other pesticides, at least you don't have to worry about residue or long term effects. Both pesticide and pet food manufacturers want to pretend that cats are small dogs (omnivores) instead of the true carnivores they are. This is true for various home deodorizer mfgers (like Glade), too, as they use essential oils in their sprays that have not properly been tested to see if cats can tolerate them. Can you imagine having to breath it and having no way to escape it if you are a cat and your liver doesn't have the enzymes to metabolize it? Very sad and potentially deadly.
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oh I see! Since you don't require the earth anymore, it makes sense for me to get it from you rather than through the net! No urgency, but the next time you speak to the US Federal Post or whichever shipper you use, ask what the shipping costs would be for one bag of that weight and dimensions (by the cheapest form of shipment, of course, since this is not a perishable - which presumably would be by surface rather than air?). Do you have a PAYPAL account?
Oh yeah, we learnt about the horrors/dangers in everyday household stuff like cleaning agents, deodorizers, fabric softeners, Lysol spray, etc., from reading ANITRA FRAZIER's wonderful book A NEW NATURAL CAT (as mentioned in some of my deviations, the ones on MO + Mi early days). That was the end of our use of fabric softeners, pesticides, no-rinse floor cleaners, disinfectants sprays, deodorizers, etc. It really changed us.
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Note me the particulars like city, mailing code, so I can look it up. The first one I came across wanted some $399 USD minimum which included other stuff than just shipping charges and had a minimum and I figured 23.6kg (52 lbs.) which was under the minimum - this was by ship. Needless to say, I will be looking around including UPS. 
Yes, a lot of normal household things are toxic to cats. The best disinfectant is still a 10:1 bleach solution provided you don't let the cats on the floor or in the space until it is dry. Besides, they just love rolling around in the smell of it for some reason. And the best deodorizer is baking soda.
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I'll Note you the details. ^-^
The 10:1 bleach solution I have used before to clean the massive wounds on one cat - it was suggested by the vet. Yes, cats do love the smell of bleach, and detergents, etc. And therein lies the danger...I heard of one cat that died after drinking the bleach soaking solution that the laundry was sitting in, and another, that belongs to a client, that died from long-term inhalation of fabric softener vapours hiding under the washing machine. Yes, we use baking soda extensively in fridge, freezer, drainage, fabric soiled by the cats' vomit, etc.
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Club soda is the very best of cleaners for all bodily fluids on almost anything. It deodorizes, removes stains, and is very benign to cats and the environment. About the only stain it doesn't work well on is blood. You're better off using 3% hydrogen peroxide to clean blood and then rinsing with water so there is no residue although usually most of the peroxide is broken down into water in the process of cleaning. It's pretty benign to cats, too.
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Now, why didn't I think of that?! I use hydrogen peroxide to clean the blood protein from the cats' wounds, so it should follow that I can use it to clean blood stains...brain synapses not functioning!
Club soda...wait a minute, is that the soda we drink out of a can? Available non-sweetened??
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Yes, peroxide breaks down the hemoglobin so the red goes out of the spots. Sometimes you have to follow it with the club soda to remove all traces but it's the only thing I know of that takes the hemoglobin stains out.
Yep, the very thing. Just plain club soda sold as such for alcohol drink mixer, no sugar, no additives, not soda pop per se. Best stain remover I've ever used. Especially deodorizes cat and dog piss and feces spots as well as vomit and takes out the stain. I learned it from a dentist I worked for just after college whose little dog sometimes missed the paper. Been using it ever since.
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ahhh yes ... alcohol drink mixer ... we call it soda water here!
That's good to know - periodically, we get stray/feral toms coming into our driveway and pissing on everything marking their territory. Currently, there's one, so that's useful information! How do you use it? Just splash on the spot in question? Leave it to soak?
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Yes, they are almost the same although club soda often has a bit of salt in it. Spray it on, splash it on, rinse or wipe it off. Even works well on my bobcat's piss markings as well as stray toms. It doesn't have to sit very long to work well. Another coating or spraying if it is something already dried out if you still detect an odor. It kills both the odor and the stain quite quickly.
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Great! It's going on my shopping list for next trip to the stores!
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Cool! You will love it, no residue.
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^-^ ... and thanks for the fave too!
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