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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!thelema!STella
- From: STella@thelema.uucp (STella)
- Subject: Re: House plants
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.104831.12243@thelema.uucp>
- Organization: Idiosyncratic Anarchic Order
- References: <18911@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:48:31 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <18911@mindlink.bc.ca> Jack_Webb@mindlink.bc.ca (Jack Webb) writes:
- >Cat Fancy magazine of May 1988 has a good article on cats and houseplants...
- >here is a list of some of the more poisonous plants.
- >
- >Amaryllis Arrowhead vine/Nephthysis Asparagus Fern
-
- [rest of list omitted because they're all things I agree are likely
- not good for kitties]
-
- Asparagus fern? I've been using asparagus ferns as the one plant the
- beasts can munch for ages with no ill effect, had seen other articles
- on dangerous plants that had it as an OK bush, and have given
- asparagus ferns to other knowledgeable catfolk's kitties as a present
- without the kitties' people objecting. My old vet, back in Ann Arbor,
- would plop an asparagus fern on the exam table to distract kitties
- while the shot went in.
-
- In other words, this is news to me, and news I don't quite believe
- till I've dug up that CatFancy and some other cites, or until some of
- the high-credibility folk on this group have confirmed. Should I
- throw away the ratty thing and buy the monsters a new plant?
-
- It does make GROSS hairballs, I grant you -- especially awful if
- you've come home from a week's vacation, the catsitter didn't find it,
- and you, barefoot, do -- OW!
-
- I didn't see coleus on that list, and it's one of the ones I won't let
- in the house....
-
- STella@xanadu.com 1016 E. El Camino Real, #302, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
- STella%thelema.uucp@dec.com Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian!
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