I’ve tried a lot of things, but when Manny Pearl was in his destructive phase, I found that sticking bamboo skewers in the soil helped. It was not attractive to have sticks every inch or so, but he was deterred.
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oh yes, you know, it’s been a decade, but you just reminded me that we did that, too. it works, but it doesn’t help the leaves they CAN reach. i have a corn plant that i have pruned off all the lower leaves our cats can reach, just in case.
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Oh yes, for sure. The good news is that I didn’t have to put up the sticks in the last few years or with the latest kittens. I think it’s luck, because they are naughty in a whole bunch of other ways, as all kittens are. Specifically, they go with the regular delivery of dead or living mice, frogs, lizards and one unfortunate snake.
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We opted to just not have any indoor plants. But a hanging something or other might work, as long as it doesn’t reach anywhere near the ground. Also high places like shelves.
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They’ve done a good job with humans, as well.
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to buffer my last post:
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She doesn’t really play with Ratto or the floofy thing; but if I try to move them, I risk having my arms/fingers/hands flayed.
Not always. It’s like…a game of chance. But she’s becoming more social, and she likes bacon and pepperoni, crumbled up small, natch since she has no bottom teefs, 'cept in the back.
I hope we can get her cleaned up this winter and then she might…I dunno, cuddle? I miss that; Luke was great at it at night.
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She’s come further into the house recently, but not in the past two days; this is from the last time she ventured in:
And this is from about fifteen minutes ago, at the SW corner of the back screened-in porch; that’s a pile of folded curtains, fabric and one old bedspread she’s curled up on. She seems to prefer the chill sometimes. Not to say she herself is always chill - I have the scars on my hands and forearms that prove otherwise, LOL!
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On the bay-window seat (it faces the street, so it doesn’t get used by humans as a place of repose).
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Just look at it:
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i’ll second this dang banana toy. my MIL got it for our kitties last xmas, and when i opened it i said, “a banana? ok…!”
i didn’t think they would like it, because catnip is hit or miss with them to begin with, but it turned out that that freaking banana drove them, you know, bananas. it was their favorite toy for much longer than any other toy they’ve had in recent years.
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I can only guess the catnip within is especially strong/high quality/high quantity. All of our cats have gone crazy over them. And with the rainbows Yeowww also makes.
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Fat Cat and Cosmic Catnip toys used to drive our cats nuts. Luke had a thing for a red pepper that I think was from the latter line.
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My goodness! They got SOOO big and fluffy!
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The yellow might be part of it. There is a tennis ball (which I have zero idea how it might have arrived in my house) and a little yellow stuffie which are among the favorite cat toys around here, and neither includes catnip. 
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I remember Fat Cat made a toy called “Newt Hoot” that looked like Newt Gingrich back in the 1990s.
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