I have a boxwood at home and been growing it in a pot for about half a year and wanted to wait up until next spring or so to a nice pot. However, I've noticing the leaves on it disappearing. Wondered what was going on. Almost seemed it was 'losing its hair'. Then one day at home playing xbox, I looked outside on the patio and i saw , ahem, MY LOVELY cat up high next to the pot nibblin on the leaves. She was the culprit. Any pointers on what to do about this. I read somewhere that i should grow some catnip or something for the cat and that should deter it from my boxwood. What d'yall think.

Thanks again,
Ante
Huntington Beach, CA

~Busko

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You can try placing some small paper souffle cups filled with fresh ground pepper. Or as some trainers do, they use a water pistol. Everytime the cat goes near the plant blast the cat with water.... :0)

Carl L. Rosner

Ante Busko wrote:
I have a boxwood at home and been growing it in a pot for about half a year and wanted to wait up until next spring or so to a nice pot. However, I've noticing the leaves on it disappearing. Wondered what was going on. Almost seemed it was 'losing its hair'. Then one day at home playing xbox, I looked outside on the patio and i saw , ahem, MY LOVELY cat up high next to the pot nibblin on the leaves. She was the culprit. Any pointers on what to do about this. I read somewhere that i should grow some catnip or something for the cat and that should deter it from my boxwood. What d'yall think.

Thanks again,
Ante
Huntington Beach, CA





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Trust me I've done the water pistol. She's a b!+@# still, still getting into trouble. Whats funny is when she she's me, she dont do it, but when i'm not visible they go crazy! I'll try the ground pepper stuff. HAAA I also heard about putting shavings of oranges or lemon on top of the soil. I tried it but I wasnt sure if that worked 100%

Ante

From: Carl Rosner
Date: Fri Jul 22 18:41:35 CDT 2005
Subject: [IBC] Japanese Boxwood

You can try placing some small paper souffle cups filled with fresh ground pepper. Or as some trainers do, they use a water pistol. Everytime the cat goes near the plant blast the cat with water.... :0) Carl L. Rosner

Ante Busko wrote:I have a boxwood at home and been growing it in a pot for about half a year and wanted to wait up until next spring or so to a nice pot. However, I've noticing the leaves on it disappearing. Wondered what was going on. Almost seemed it was 'losing its hair'. Then one day at home playing xbox, I looked outside on the patio and i saw , ahem, MY LOVELY cat up high next to the pot nibblin on the leaves. She was the culprit. Any pointers on what to do about this. I read somewhere that i should grow some catnip or something for the cat and that should deter it from my boxwood. What d'yall think.

Thanks again,
Ante
Huntington Beach, CA

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At one time I had too many cats. Kids dropped them
off temporarily then never picked them up. The cats
said there were too many of them and started peeing in
the house. I scrubbed down their favoirte place,
applied odor removers, covered the ground with a whole
large can of ground pepper. On the forth day there
were kitty paw prints in the pepper. This was pre
Costco so I couldn't buy a larger contaner yet. Seems
I had to renew it.

Try moth balls. Or...what I have done for the
squirrels is cover the plants with netting I had left
over from a costume. There is a "mist" of orange
netting over everything.

BTW have I mentioned that my research shows that four
out of five squirrels prefer to dig in kanuma soil?

Kits

--- Ante Busko wrote:

Trust me I've done the water pistol. She's a b!+@#
still, still getting into trouble. Whats funny is
when she she's me, she dont do it, but when i'm not
visible they go crazy! I'll try the ground pepper
stuff. HAAA I also heard about putting shavings of
oranges or lemon on top of the soil. I tried it but
I wasnt sure if that worked 100%

Ante

From: Carl Rosner
Date: Fri Jul 22 18:41:35 CDT 2005
Subject: [IBC] Japanese Boxwood

You can try placing some small paper souffle cups
filled with fresh ground pepper. Or as some trainers
do, they use a water pistol. Everytime the cat goes
near the plant blast the cat with water.... :0)
Carl L. Rosner

Ante Busko wrote:I have a
boxwood at home and been growing it in a pot for
about half a year and wanted to wait up until next
spring or so to a nice pot. However, I've noticing
the leaves on it disappearing. Wondered what was
going on. Almost seemed it was 'losing its hair'.
Then one day at home playing xbox, I looked outside
on the patio and i saw , ahem, MY LOVELY cat up high
next to the pot nibblin on the leaves. She was the
culprit. Any pointers on what to do about this. I
read somewhere that i should grow some catnip or
something for the cat and that should deter it from
my boxwood. What d'yall think.

Thanks again,
Ante
Huntington Beach, CA


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Yes. When in doubt always blame the cat(s). A friend gave me a nice
Boston fern. The two kitties promptly pruned it down to nubs. Now I
have kitty grass and catnip to distract and occupy them.

Layne

On 22 Jul 2005 15:52:36 -0700, (Ante Busko)
wrote:

I have a boxwood at home and been growing it in a pot for about half a year and wanted to wait up until next spring or so to a nice pot. However, I've noticing the leaves on it disappearing. Wondered what was going on. Almost seemed it was 'losing its hair'. Then one day at home playing xbox, I looked outside on the patio and i saw , ahem, MY LOVELY cat up high next to the pot nibblin on the leaves. She was the culprit. Any pointers on what to do about this. I read somewhere that i should grow some catnip or something for the cat and that should deter it from my boxwood. What d'yall think.