How can I stop my cats eating my plants?

[PavlovtheCat]

One cat in particular, although both are culprits from time to time. She particularly loves the dragon tree, and this makes her vomit quite horrendously. I had one, it died, we blamed the cats but it might have been the salt rock I put in it so, when the cats were absolved of the blame I bought another one. This particular cat will jump up to where I now have it creating chaos in order to get to it.

However, she is now also eating my peace lilly. This beautiful plant which flowered beautifully this year, has gone from being a prime specimen of a plant to scraggly thing. It now looks like it is dying, not sure if it is.

So my questions are:

1. why is my cat doing this (especially as it makes her throw up quite badly) and
2. how can i stop her/them doing it? apart from having all my plants out of her way - she will only try to jump and reach them (and creat havoc in her wake - as she has already broken my tv, speakers and ipad by jumping onto the top of the tv, knocking it off the side and then, as we are in the process of an insurance claim, knocked the spare tv from the bedroom off the side too, probably while trying to get to the dragon tree - luckily this did not break)

Can you get some kitty grass? Cats normally love it and its good for them. Maybe a tray of that would be a good substitute and she would prefer it to your houseplants.....

My dog once ate a whole peace lily while we were out. All available data, and what the vet said, suggested that the oxalic acid in it would cause renal failure. As it turned out, he was fine - but since then we've made sure there's no houseplants within reach. Much easier with a dachshund than a cat, but TBH in your situation I'd just get rid of the houseplants while you have this cat - not worth the risk.

Cats do deliberately eat grass - I think it helps them sick up hairballs or something - does your cat have access to grass outside?

grimma she does suffer from hairballs, and yes she has access to outside, so not like she can't eat it somewhere else! I give her this hairball paste stuff, and the cats have iams hairball food, not entirely convinced it makes it any better.

She is about 8 years old, and only just starting to eat the plants in this way, in the last year (apart from the dragon tree, always loved it, but so do I!).

butteflies we bought some kitty grass, which they ate, but they ate so much it all died before we could replenish it! And it was outside, can you grow it inside?

I love my houseplants. But I love my cat more.

Rehome. The plants that is, not the cat.

You could try cacti I suppose ....