amaryllids and cats?

Garak garak@code-garak.de
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:37:39 PDT
Hi list,

I'm about to adopt a young tomcat into my house and my heart, and I've 
heard that they may be inclined to nibble on "Amaryllis", which is said 
to be poisonous to them. Now, this information came from such part of 
the population who most likely meant Hippeastrum when saying Amaryllis, 
but I want to be sure not to put the little fellow into danger. So I've 
got 2 questions:

1.: I know Boophone to be poisonous to stock, but what about the rest of 
the family: I've got nerines, brunsvigia seedlings, Rhodophialas, 
Lycoris, a neighbor has a clivia, and there are of course Galanthus and 
Narcissus everywhere around, not a garden without them in southern 
Germany - i guess if the latter two were a problem, there'd be dead cats 
all around the place...

2.: How strong is the urge to try them? I know cats need grass to deal 
with their own hair which they consume during cleaning themselves. I'm 
comfortable with locking away amaryllids inhouse, but as the little 
fellow will be allowed to "roam the lands", is there any need to protect 
plants and animal in the garden? I mean there's plenty of grass around 
there, as well as other plants that I know to draw the attention of cats 
(did you know they go mad for kiwi plants?)...

-- 
Martin
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Southern Germany
Likely zone 7a




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