Morgan mauling a fresh pot of cat grass
My cats are indoor only. They don’t roll in the green grass or rub against bushes. They coat furniture with fur and climb the bookshelves but it’s not like the great outdoors.
Don’t feel bad for them. They have a great life.
To bring that outdoor feeling in I keep cat grass around.
In the summer I plant a big patch in a planter. It’s in the sun in the screened porch and they have full access. Watered regularly, it will last all summer.
The winter is harder. I buy little pots of it. They mow it down within hours.
This is how it looks after an hour.
Morgan likes to “roll” in it.
Hazel likes to pull it out and fluff it around.
Mollie eats it, then barfs it up.
I bankroll the whole thing!
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 
No offense, but I prefer that my cats not hang out with your cats. I don’t want them running with the wrong crowd and getting the idea that I’m supposed to provide cat grass.
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My cats are sending your cats secret messages with their foil helmets! I believe your cats will go on strike soon….for better conditions.
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Cat grass is new to me.
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I’m sure it’s legal in California!
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Will it work for humans? 😀
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I’ve never tried. I wonder if you eat it or smoke it?
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LOL That’s the question that’s baffled humans since the dawn of cats and cat grass. I suspect our feline masters have had us under the microscope doing studies on the subject. I wonder what their findings will show?
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That felines are superior for sure.
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A blow to humans, but we need to get over ourselves. Cats have 9 lives and we only have 1. Why right there shows their superiority. 😀
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Cat grass… it was the puking that got to me. Our cats always puked it up!
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Only Mollie does but she has a “sensitive” stomach. I always think it helps her with her hairballs. This round no one puked. (Or maybe I didn’t find it yet!)
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I’ve never heard of cat grass before. I had indoor-outdoor cats, so I guess they didn’t need it. I’m learning a lot about the care of cats from your blog.
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My indoor-outdoor cat didn’t eat it because he had the great outdoors but the inside only ones really enjoy it. Maybe it’s their version of fresh squeezed orange juice!
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grow them from seeds all year round. a lot cheaper.
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Lucky cats! You are a good mom!
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Or a crazy one. Thank God they don’t want a hover board!
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You know how they say you learn something new every day? I just did!
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Your day was complete!
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I am so impressed with you as a cat parent and how you think of the most wonderful things to make them happy. If I ever get a cat, you will be my source of information.
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I know you are a dog person but if you ever get a cat (they really are easier) I’ll be your person!
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Aww ~ what we cat moms won’t do for our cat kids! My cats love their catnip but I’ve never tried the grass. It sounds like something they’d like but I’m a little worried about any more barfing around here.
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The one thing I did that cut barfing way back was to transition them to a grain free cat food. Now I have 2 barfs a month (with 3 cats). Before it was 2 barfs a day.
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Yes, ours eat a special diet to help digestion and only one of them barfs regularly ~ once or twice a week. She always barfs right into the food bowl. Maybe she’s trying to tell me something?
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I don’t know if that’s better than barfing on the carpet or not. Sounds disgusting.
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It is disgusting and a lot of wasted food.
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I had never heard of cat grass before. Fortunately, my kitty was completely capable of barfing without it.
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Ah yes but there wasn’t as pretty green stuff in the barfs.
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You are an awesome cat mom. Andy is too cheap to buy it, so first he grew grass in our greenhouse. Then he planted some wheat in our backyard garden and discovered that it’s the same thing. Or at least the cats thought so and chewed down his stalks. 🙂
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Yes, wheat works too so does a couple of other grass plants. Jake (our deceased outdoor cat) chewed on several different grass varieties (all decorative around the house with cat chew marks on them). I have a big palm tree that I am wintering over until I can put it back on the porch. Morgan won’t eat it but will gnaw on a bottom branch. The fronds are kind of prickly but I guess it does what she needs. I am much better with cats than with kids. They don’t like grass or catnip.
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Sadly, there are some kids who really, really, wind up liking grass!
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I think I met some of them.
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I used to go outside and clip a bunch of grass blades, then bring the grass inside and serve it to the cats on a lovely dinner plate. For my efforts? Barf. But supposedly it did the kitties some good.
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My mother told me that cats eat grass when they have an upset stomach. I don’t know if that’s true but Mollie always does a really nice barf afterward.
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Lol…love that last line.
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Fortunately at $2 a pot, I can afford it!
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Where do you get it for $2 a pot? I never see it that low.
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It’s a local garden shop. They start their own. Our local Petco sells it for $4 (or it was that last time I looked at it a couple of years ago) so it’s really a deal. The pots are just 4″ so it’s small but I get two. Lasts around a month.
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I think Morgan needs a bigger pot for rolling. 🙂
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She would love a whole room!
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Nothing brings joy into a home like a new pot of grass – for cats! for cats! HA HA.
It’s the same here with cat grass necessary for RC’s delicate tummy and dietary issues. She, however, is very picky about her grazing – not just any greens will do. I grew some in multiple pots for a while until the pet store changed brands of seed packets – and she noticed. A vet told us to try growing bird seed – which grew well, but she was annoyed at variety in one pot. The pet store started selling containers of grass which worked until multiple nurseries started supplying it…yes, she’s like the kid who will only drink milk from one dairy – and no clover milk! None. Wheat grass at the grocery store – yeck, no go. So far we’ve got a source – paws crossed it continues. (and I do not understand colinandray’s comment at all HA HA)
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Good to hear RC likes it. Many of my friends’ cats either don’t get it or don’t like it. Never had a problem like that. Each new cat instinctively devoured it. Morgan is the worst. The rolling of a 12 pounder on top of the delicate little stems seems cruel. I’m lucky that a local garden store plants and stocks it, so it’s consistent. Or maybe my cats’ taste buds aren’t as well refined as RC’s. As for Colin (of colinandray), he knows the concept of “staff” all too well.
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You must have been pretty ease for them to train? 🙂
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You can tell? They wrote the book on human training.
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Yes ………. and I am pretty sure that Ray has a copy stashed away somewhere!
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He wrote the dog translation.
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🙂
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