Bad kitty! No biscuit.

[shiredancer]

Kidlet is an eighth-grader, and that means... science fair. So, she came up with a pretty interesting project (at least, I think so): she wanted to test the effects of caffeine on growing plants. She planted six snow peas in separate pots, watering one with plain water (as the control plant, of course -- see, I know some scientific terms!) and the rest had different dilutions of plain instant coffee, from half strength up to double strength. She's been carefully watching and measuring their growth, recording it all in her notebook -- counting the leaves, etc. Last night they had grown enough so that the little 2-inch pots were being outgrown (roots starting to come out the bottom), so we very carefully repotted them in the 6-inch pots and she figured out just how much to water them in the new size. The plants all looked very healthy and happy.

Then one of our cats ate them in the night.

Well, ate all the top leaves off of three of them, anyway. So, what exactly does this do to the experiment, I wonder? Invalidate it completely? I'm thinking she should just add it in to her notes as a small disaster or something, and carry on. *Crosses fingers that teacher will agree.*

I also think she should include a photograph of the culprit, clearly placing the blame.

Life -- it sure has its dilemmas, huh?