Very often love for nature combines both love for animals and love for plants. And in practice, combining indoor plants in an apartment with pets is not easy at all. We have to worry about one and the other, but still more goes to the representatives of the flora.
Cats and dogs, which are most often turned on by animal lovers, can do a lot of unpleasant things associated with indoor plants. With their paws, they can dig holes in flower soil, gnaw and bite the leaves and flowers of plants. And it often happens that in the process of outdoor activities, they can accidentally hook a container with a plant and break it. If the container and flower are large, then the cat can use the surface of the ground as a bed, and the trunk of the plant as a tool for sharpening claws.
Animals can get it too. Indeed, using plant leaves as a delicacy, you can get poisoned and seriously harm your health. Considering all these consequences, you need to carefully consider where to place indoor flowers and what place will be safe for pets. After all, it is absolutely realistic to combine these two human attachments in an apartment. Animals and plants will be able to coexist on the same living space peacefully and without consequences for everyone.
As for plants, they should be placed at a distance out of the reach of animals. These can be wall shelves, hanging flower containers, tall, stable stands firmly attached to the wall or floor. This is especially true for those indoor flowers that pose the slightest danger to the health of pets.
But in order for the plants to have a positive effect on pets, in particular on cats, you can grow special grass for them and place flower pots near their habitat. Such plants (for example, cereals) help cats to clear their stomach of wool fibers that get inside them when licking their fur.
Tips on how to protect houseplants from animals
There are many useful proven tips that will help scare animals away from indoor flowers. The most effective remedy is a smell that cats don't like. Why cats, because it's easier to negotiate with dogs.
Smell - a repeller can be purchased in the form of a special spray for residential premises, or you can use folk remedies. Cats do not like the smell of red ground pepper, which can be placed in small containers near houseplants, as well as the scent of rubbing alcohol. It can be moistened with small pieces of cotton wool. The smell of alcohol remains for a long time after the cotton wool dries.
Peels from various citrus fruits - lemons, oranges, tangerines will serve as a good deterrent effect for cats and dogs. True, the drying crusts lose their effect, you will have to lay out the fresh peel all the time.
If you seriously take up the issue of the safety of pets and indoor plants, then they may well be in the same house without harm to themselves and people.
