Re: OT: Toxic Plants ? (was:Chocolate)

[Wheezercat42]

>>I don't know a link, but I know poinsettias are poisonous, and I know peace plants and silk plants are not poison, but highly enjoyable for nibbling and shredding anyway<<.   Here's a link for toxic plants. http://amby.com/cat_site/plants.html   When Sarah was a kitten, I almost lost her because she ate about an inch from the tip of a leaf from a Chinese Evergreen (closely related to peace lilies).  She became lethargic and started having tremors - she went to the ER vet and it took 3 days for the symptoms to stop.    If I don't know for certain if something is safe, and I can't keep it outside or hang it out of reach, I keep it in a terrarium.  I use aquariums with strip lights and screen tops for reptiles.  The strip lights show off the plants, give the plants enough light, and give the cats a warm place to hang out on chilly evenings.  I keep the lights plugged into timers set to turn on and off at roughly the same time as sunrise and sunset in July.  Right now, I have a 5 gal cacti aquarium, a 75 gal stream bank terrarium - with moving water, a couple fish, a couple small turtles, and ferns, mosses, and other wet land plants.  and I have what started out as an iguana cage I designed that is 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 5 feet tall and has two 65 watt spotlights in the front corners.  I put small floor plants in there.  The iguana moved on to a friend who has a heavily planted greenhouse.  Right now, I just have plants in it, but I've had turtles, lizards, and even a few wild birds in small cages in there (the cage stays warm because of the lights.  Sick wild birds benefit as much from the warmth as from any vet care I give them.  I'd rather cage the plants than risk losing a cat to misinformation