Harmless ways to keep cats out of plants?

My mom brought home a large plant the other day and my kitten thinks it's her new litter box

I sprayed her with water and reprimanded her the one time I did catch her in the act, but it didn't do much good. I'm tired of cleaning the plant every morning so is there anything I can do to keep her out of it? For now I've just moved it outside, but I know my mom loves it and wants it inside so I'm hoping to find some solution for this problem.

And because I know I'm likely to be asked- yes, she already has a litterbox, in fact she has two available to her and both are cleaned regularly.

Edit, nevermind.

It didn't work And she usually goes to crap in the plant whenever I'm asleep, because I wake up and it's there.

Also this is an indoor plant, in a pot, a sprinkler is not an option if that's what you're trying to say

You can add orange or grapefruit peels onto the soil of the plants and this should help to repel cats.

Interesting, and super easy to try. Thank you!

You're welcome.

Another idea is adding ground black pepper or cayenne pepper onto the dirt.

lol, that is interesting.
wonder what I need to keep the squirrels from digging in
my deck planters/pots?

I might just throw all of the above in for good measure

Ooo ooo and tin foil!





He clearly didn't want to walk on it.

Who didn't? (Edit- never mind, the video just showed up! )

And I doubt that would work for this cat She'd get distracted and pull it off to play with it, maybe.

The kitty in the video...is it not showing you the video?

It just showed up, when I first looked at your post there was a bit of blank space and that was it.

I hope it works for you.

If not, at least you have the starters for a good meat seasoning/rub.

orange peel my friend. cats hate it.

other than that, napalm the f***er.

A Rat Terrier will keep all varmints out of your yard.

J.R.