Grow Organic!! Place a cat sculpture, scratching post with a resting ledge on top, toys, sunning rocks, a shady space, water dish. To keep cats from doing their business in their garden: use cedar or cypress mulch, moss the ground, or use a garden mesh over the area and cut holes for the following plants to be dug in.
Alyssum (lobularia)
Blue fescue grass (festuca glauca)
Broccoli
Bugleweed (Lycopus americana)
Calendula
Cat calamint (calamintha nepeta)
Cat grass (datylis glomerata)
Catmint
Catnip
Cat Thyme (Teucrium marum)
Coleus
Couch grass,Quackgrass (Agropyron)
Dill
Gerbena Daisy
White Ginger, Butterfly Ginger
Ginkgo biloba (Hedychium coronarium)
Lamb's ears (stachys)
Lettuce
Nettle (Urtica species)
Oat grass
Strawberries (Fragaria)
Parsley
Petunia
Papyrus
Quackgrass (Agropyron repens)
Rye grass
Sage, Texas Sage, Salvia, Scarlet Sage
Creeping thyme
Valerian (Valeriana officianalis)
Wheat grass
Zinnia
Plants that Cats Don't Like
Barley grass
Cast iron plant (aspidistra elatior),
Flax (linum usitatissimum)
Jacob's ladder (polemonium)
Lemon grass (cymbopogon citratus),
Liriope (liriope muscari)
Miscanthis grass
Pennyroyal (mentha pulegium)
Purple fountain grass
Silver vine (actinidia polygama)
Striped ribbon grass (phalaris arundinacea)
Sweetgrass (hierochloe odorata)
Tufted sedge (carex)
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Keep Mole Killer & Slug bait out of the garden, and put away the Anti Freeze, they will kill Pets!
Don't buy pet food contining sucrose or sugar! This will attract ticks, fleas, lice & mites to pets that eat it!!
Wash their Bedding and Vacuum their resting spots! There's Eggs in there!!
Place fresh lavender, eucalyptus and rosemary in their beds or resting spots. Always consult a vet before using remedies!
Tansy and fleabane are flea repelling herbs. Pennyroyal is toxic, so consult a vet for proper use)
Brewer's yeast given by mouth, or brushed into the fur.
Bathing in diluted cider vinegar for fleas and preventative (1 teaspoon per 3 cups water.Place 1/2 a lemon in hot water, leave overnight, rub water on coat weekly.
Rub fresh eucalyptus, fennel, rosemary or lavender on coat daily until problem is controlled, then weekly.
Rub fresh lemongrass, lavender and rosemary, basil, citronella, cinnamon leaf, on coat.Garlic is also very effective, one third of a chopped clove added to food daily.
Add calcium or bonemeal daily to food, vitamin E or vitamin C twice a week.
Cod liver oil, 1/4 teaspoon per week only, more can be toxic!. Glucosamine and Chondriton supposedly help regenerate cartilage.
Rhus Tox, Bryonia and Pulsatilla may also help.
For older cats: Arnica. Nettles, Alfalfa and Garlic may help.
To Calm a Cat
1/4 cup dried catnip
1 cup dried chamomile
1/2 cup dried lavender. Place in their bed, resting spot, or litter box.
To increase your pets appetite, sprinkle catnip in food
These lists are not all-inclusive. This page is for informational use, we
make no personal claims, we are not vets! Do your homework! You are at your own risk. |