Lennie I completely understand!!! My two are just HORRIBLE when it comes to leaving my flowers alone. Whenever I am lucky enough to have someone buy them for me (the last occasion was Mother's Day and my son gave me a beautiful vase of flowers) I have to put them way up high on a shelf in the kitchen with no possible access to them from my jumping kitties. It is annoying because I would love to have them down on a table to admire close-up but there is NO WAY!! My boys just will not leave them alone! I have even gotten rid of just about all of my house plants. I only have a couple of aloe plants on my kitchen windowsill (in case I burn myself while cooking! LOL!) and a jade plant. For some reason the kitties either have never noticed them or they just aren't appealing to them.