Aloe Vera

This plant is gone. It survived a lot of abuse, but the cats rubbing against it and knocking it out of the container spilling dirt all over. This finally proved too much for me to bear.

Comments

[Elizabeth]

Yes, I contemplated caticide on my return home as well.
Hope things improve shortly.

[Kristen M.]

Damn cats. One of ours had *the nerve* to puke down the side of the couch today. I wish I could just chuck the couch like you chucked the aloe! ;)

[Adriane]

I'll trade you your plant knocker-over kitty for my sweet-but-deaf cat with no control over the tone, pitch or volume of her voice.

Sounds great, right?

I'm poking air holes in a cardboard cat shipping box as we speak.

[Lisame]

I've always wondered how anyone can kill an aloe. Now I know. It's their cats.

[Alana]

My cat once managed to kill a diffenbachia (sp?). It was a beautiful houseplant, and the lady who sold it to me said there was something in it that paralyzed cats' vocal cords.

Once we brought that plant home, it didn't take long for the cat to eat it. I think the iguanas helped, too, but the cat bears the brunt of the blame. I gave to my mom for rehab, but it was too far gone for her to save it. That was 13 years ago, and I still have the same cat, and have never had another houseplant. I can't even have poinsettias here at Christmas time!

[rachel beto]

How tragically ironic: the aloe, so capable of healing many a dry-skinned leg, so easily snuffed out by a mere kitty cat

[Kia]

I've never understood why people keep cats. They're evil. Your aloe plant is just another example of what cats can do to make human lives more difficult. ;)

[HouseofJules]

Is it ironic that aloe doesn't work on itself? Poor little plant.
Jules
House of Jules

[katg]

I came home the other day to see that our cat had figured out how to get on top of the bird cage.
He was sitting there, sprawled casually across the top, licking his paw while our poor, stupid, little parakeet sat on the bottom of the cage in shear terror.

[Kathleen]

Beautiful photo, are you going to fill that pot again? It's really pretty. I was wishing I had one of these plants last night when my husband appeared with an amazing sunburn after shingling the garage roof. I left the sunblock sitting right there, on the table when I left for work, but he didn't "see it".

[Candycorn]

If you put one of the leaves in the fridge for awhile, it feels sooo soothing when you smear the leaf sap-stuff on a sunburn. I always try to have an aloe vera plant around, just in case.

[Clare in Leeds]

Shouldn't that have been "Bye bye Vera"? (Instead of 'allo Vera)
Sorry, can't resist bad puns!

[Vanessa]

Diefenbachia kills cats. I lost my Chloe to one that came in a Valentines basket. I went to replace the plant a year after she died and a random Walmart employee warned me to keep it away from cats. I had searched my house to find what ever had poisoned her and found out a year later it was the plant.