Our cats knock over every flower vase we have and it makes a collosal mess when the water goes everywhere. If no one has already done it, I'm going to design a flower vase specifically for cat people. It will be broad at the base and narrow at the top so kitties CAN'T knock it over--a declining radius cylinder from bottom to top. I believe there's a huge market here and I'm ready to learn to blow glass if I have to. Murano and Blenko here I come. 🙂
Counterweight and inaccesibility
I put stainless teel ball-bearings or polished river rocks in the bottom of a plain glass cylinder which sems to work just fine. I also try to limit the exposure by putting flowers in a location that is not cat frequented. Now if someone could just invent claw-proof upholstery...
Catproofing
1. Weight the vase, filling it about one third of the way with lead shot, available in bulk at your local gun shoppe.
-- and/or --
2. Contact the Andy Warhol Museum gift store in Pittsburgh. Until recently, at least, they sold a starkly simple, wide-bottomed, matte-finished black rubber vase that was about as modern as one could wish.
http://www.warholstore.com
You mean that....
our cat "charlotte" who navigates wonderfully between plants and vases to reach the most sunny spot of the window ledge is an exceptional animal? This being said dc, I happen to have exactly what you discribe, so send me an E-mail with your address and I will mail the vase to you.
speaking of cats
Cat owners, I would like your insights... We were thinking of getting a cat at one stage. What stopped us is that we are worried the the cat would use out mid-C furniture as an expensive scratching pole. What can be done to stop this tragedy from happening? Thanks.
NOTHING! They will savage it...
Cats are a complex symbiotic evolutionary step that flourish by humbling human beings. Scratch boards, cat trees, etc. are just useless. Cats will inherit the earth, not computers or robots. During the rise of robots, cats will urninate on them and destroy their digital electronics. Don' get one! DON'T GET ONE! They are so loveable you can't kill them. What they will do to your furniture will render it disgraceful. The smells they make in your house will drive you mad as hatters. Save yourselves. Do I sound like Kevin McCarthy at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?" Well, you will too after you've lived with them for a couple years. YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!
I firmly disagree
I live with two lovelies that neither savage, nor destroy. They quite definitely prefer their corrugated cardboard scratching thingie to my furniture (basting it in catnip helps). Furniture is furniture; cats are a balm to the soul. Never will I prefer and object to a cat. Dogs I can do without; drooling, needy, smelly beasts that they are. But, there is nothing quite like the sound of a cat purring lazily into your ear as it nestles around your shoulders. I'd trade a thousand mint-condition nelson benches for one homely hedonistic cat.
Fear not, Olive...
I daily shovel the hovel for them. I used to bag it and drop it in the trash barrel outside, but lately, in the interest of environment, I have stopped bagging, and have taken to carrying it on the scoop to the fartherest reaches of our lot and toss it naked into the underbrush. I expect after 15 years (the avg. life expectancy of the petite beasts) that I will have saved 5,475 plastic bags and developed a rich loamy soil under the hedge. I am risking creating a natural petri dish for plague, I suppose, but, ahem, there are trade-offs to all solutions.
Also, late at night, when no one is looking, I hold them close and do a Vulcan mind meld Mr. Spock style just like any other cat-ophile. They are so loveable.
But couldn't the genetic engineers find a way to tone down the foulness of their waste? It remains without doubt the WORST smell I have experienced.
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