Question

Where should the dash or dashes be placed?

Cats are loveable and hey, stop eating my plant, you bad cat!


Cats are loveable and hey,—stop—eating my plant, you bad cat!
Cats are loveable and—hey, stop eating my plant, you bad cat!
Cats are loveable—and hey—,stop eating my plant, you bad cat!
Cats —are loveable and hey, stop eating my plant, you bad cat!

Answer 1

The second choice is correct because the dash is used to show a break in the sentence, an interruption from the original thought. The speaker probably did not expect to scold the cat in the middle of the sentence on purpose.