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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

I remember someone in Pomona saying that their cats were very fond of their kiwi vines, not only hanging around them but using the vicinity for a catbox.  The writer commented that seeing as kiwis come from areas where there are tigers, that the plants were probably protected from herbivores.  Maybe something as big as a tiger wouldn't bother with the little plants, allowing them to get started, and the big ones could probably stand a bit of mauling.  Once their roots get deep enough, they can just sent up another stem.  That's what the wild muscadines around here seem to do anyway.  Are kiwis fond of concentrated nitrogen?  That's what they'd be getting from cat dung.  Or maybe they need it in the soils where they come from, allows them to race to the top of the canopy?   Donna