Some of you may remember a thread I started last year about disciplining my monstrous kittens (
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=17699).
They are both 1yr 4mths old, and the male cat EATS tape. After the double-sided tape suggestion went horribly wrong, he has now made anything with adhesives one of his preferred snacks. He actually pulls open our desk drawer and removes the postage stamps and eats them (we find the remains all over the floor). We now have to hide our stamps, mail (he eats the adhesive part of the envelope), and of course, all the tape in the house. Now, whenever we need some tape, we can't find it because we had to hide it so well from the cat.
Mercifully, the litterbox problem was solved when we shelled out $100 for one of those automatic self-scooping litterboxes. After we got that, they both became masterful litterbox babies.
Also, we've always fed them Hairball Control catfood, and neither one of them has EVER thrown up anywhere.
So, I guess the trade-off is okay.