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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: House plants
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.102843.9606@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 10:28:42 -0600
- References: <18911@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec27.145552.17058@wetware.com>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1992Dec27.145552.17058@wetware.com>, diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
- > Are any TREE types listed as poisenous? I know this
- > is a bit late - and I'm assuming that since Euell
- > Gibbons and my old Camp Fire Girls training told me
- > that new tree growth was good as food that trees are
- > NOT a problem - but I don't remember whether Cypress
- > or Cedar trees are included in the food category.
-
- Yup, there are poisonous trees, too. Yew (Taxus) is in that category
- (yup, just got my IRS form dropped in the outdoor yews, leading to a
- series of bad puns on death and Taxus)...
-
- Since phenol is pretty toxic to plants, and there are a lot of
- phenolics in conifers, I'd be a bit cautious about letting cats
- gnarr on Cedrus, Juniperus, Cupressus, or anything else in that
- group...
-
- There's a number of other trees (esp. tropical/subtropical) that
- I'd try to keep cats from eating, though I have no real data on
- "trees poisonous to cats". It's just a gut feeling based on
- some knowledge of the plant families and chemicals involved.
-
- On the other hand, my crew has never shown any real interest in
- eating vegetation except for grasses, catnip, and fern asparagus,
- even though there were plenty of other "bad" plants available.
- Guess they weren't bored enough....
-
- Kay Klier Biology Dept UNI
-