Very funny...I too was wondering how you could have caterpillars in NH in Feb???? Cats,the feline kind, can be the sweetest little things but they just seem to believe that everything on earth is put here for their own exclusive pleasure! LOL I hope your plants make it. Let us know how you make out. Maryann in CT

Just so you don't think I'm cruel! I love my pets dearly and they live the lives of royalty. I buried them under the tree so that they would be a part of it and the beautiful tree would remind me of them. I cover my sensitivity with my dry inappropriate humor, forgive me.

Love the party favors! I've known cats to do this, luckily none of mine. Guess I should be lucky my old kitty prefers clean laundry, esp fresh from the dryer. Also love task lighting for the many-legged boarders though I don't know that they truly "need" this, tiny lights might be more for hamptonmeadow's viewing pleasure. I do think the little guys would appreciate radiant heat though. I'm sticking by coral. It's relaxing and sets off all manner of creature, the black, the fuzzy brown, the albino. Looooove paisley! Nina, sounds like you've got material for a thread of your own, all those Xs with funny stories (maybe less so at the time). You could call it "housekeeping tales of romance & remorse" or "stories I wish weren't mine" or maybe just a simple list of your pet names for them..... I'm starting to see new meanings in your screen name!!!

Good luck asking her to keep them home...if it works, please come ask my neighbors to keep their dogs home- they poop in the yard, drag stuff out of its place in the barn, bit my dog and myself.... Anyway- there is a product that you put in the soil- I'm sure someone here will know the name- it is supposed to repel dogs and cats also, I think. I'd hate to use mothballs, as they stink to us and I do not know if mothballs really work. Can you temporarily put rocks/shells- something like that so the cat can't dig in the dirt to 'cover-up'? If it can't 'cover', it might not want to use it as a litterbox??? Spray the cat with a waterhose if you are able to...might make it think twice..