Cute pictures! I have a plant like that, and it was irresistable for the cats. they wouldn't leave it alone. This might make me sound like a bad plant mommy, but I let the lower leaves die by witholding water. The lower leaves die first, then I pulled them off, so the plant looks like a palm tree - it only has leaves on the top. Mine is about 3' (about a meter) tall, so now the cats can't reach it to chew on the leaves! Otherwise I probably would have had to toss it, it looked really bad with the leaves all chewed off.