Hi Toni!!!! I'm noodling around here, waiting for my bread to cool on the racks :) Everytime I see a thread about a cat chewing plants, I remember when I posted the same thing as well a few years ago. Boy, the kinds of plants I can have is limited to "would Bud chew this". So I currently have peace lillies, shcefflera's, both the Hawaiaan and the umbrella (my favourite style). I couldn't resist buying a 10" pot that was on sale for $4. It's a large spiky thing, (a dracaena?) but alas, Bud thought the tips looked tempting. So I have it in the spare room on top of a pail of kitty litter on the table in front of the window! Hopefully out of Bud's reach. I thought the plant was immune to his taste buds, but he was crunching on it the same day I bought it when it was on the livingroom floor, which is where I had imagined it being. Upon looking at the peace lily I see that he's found it! Note the chewed tips. A friend gave me some spider plant babies, so I had them rooting on the kitchen sill. Bud doesn't go up there, so they were safe. They were, until I planted them in some small pots, and one was upside down in the sink. I now have them hanging in the window, and 2 are i the bathroom on top of the over the toilet cabinet. Smudge was rubbing his face on the pineapple top that I have growing. Silly boy! I was afraid he'd poke his eye on the spikes! If I see him doing it again (I admonished him) the pineapple will go out in the trash.

I raise most of my cats indoors. It gets too hot and humid here to leave them outside, as the host plants wilt. However, we keep our house at 78 degrees. I had some other thoughts. Does your area spray for mosquitoes in the summer? Pesticides can cause problems. And, I had problems with spray from our aerobic septic system. I lost some Monarchs that were on plants that were in the path of the spray, as the spray is used to water the lawn. So now I don't plant anything for the butterflies close to the spray pattern. If your plants are new, they may have been treated with systemic pesticide/disease control which stays in the plant's system for a long time. It took me a bit to figure out about the aerobic septic spray--and I lost a lot of caterpillars. Hoping you are able to isolate the problem--don't give up! Sandy This post was edited by butterflymomok on Mon, Jul 29, 13 at 23:32

Thank you for all the kind words. I know that many of you have been through it before and are always so generous with your stories and thoughts. My husband and I are doing OK, it's hard to lose two beloved pets in a month, but we are happy for the time that we had together. And know they together again, curled up so it looked like one cat with two heads and tails like they used to be. Diva loved Cameron and vice versa. We had a smile about the personalities of the cats and how they each passed. Cameron was a sweetie, super laid back. She didn't let us know she was sick and waited until we were happily settled into our new house to quietly pass away at no inconvenience to us. While Diva was more of a ...well....diva. So of course she wants to make sure that she is in charge until the end. I loved both of those girls. I'll miss them. I am hugging my puppies extra tight tonight.

When i first bought it from the store it was completely drenched. I think they just watered it. But yes it has drainage holes