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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2007 18:44:55 GMT
The catnip plant contains an oil called hepetalactone which does to cats what marijuana does to some people. Not all cats react to it but those that do appear to enter a trancelike state. A positive reaction takes the form of the cat sniffing the catnip, then licking, biting, chewing it; rolling on it repeatedly, purring, meowing and even leaping in the air. Young kittens and older cats are less likely to have a reaction to catnip, but big cats, such as tigers, seem to be extremely sensitive to it.
Out of my three cats - only one reacts to it! She can't get enough of it and i have to put baskets over it.
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 17, 2007 22:22:48 GMT
Shads initially wasn't bothered by it but now he likes it. My ex housemate's cat wasn't bothered by the artificial sprays etc but could often be seen with his head stuck in the bush of cat nip and then looking pretty laid back.
When they were seedlings (I put them into a pot that a cat wouldn't be able to lie on) a cat from next door kept coming over and eating the seedlings. Bloomin annoyin!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2007 22:59:19 GMT
My cats flatten this every year but it still comes back , its got no growth atm but it will recover.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2007 7:33:40 GMT
I don't know why it is, but my two cats don't like it at all. I know this because I spent ages getting a large potful of it together, only to find out that they hated it. But then again I grew some Cat Grass too, which was received with the same apathy.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 23:42:48 GMT
My cats love it soooooooo much I can't grow it, because they wreck it with their over enthusiasm. ;D
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Post by MamIDdau on Mar 22, 2007 9:43:31 GMT
only way to stop that rita is growing it through/underneath an upturned hanging basket so they can get to the top bits but most of the plant is kept undamaged at the base. As I said before, I grew mine in a pot they couldn't lie on cos I don't have a hanging basket type thing and that worked too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2007 22:59:06 GMT
Our cat ignored it when I had plants in the garden but if he has a toy with catnip in it he will rip it apart to get the dried catnip out.
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Post by roxann57 on Mar 25, 2007 19:43:52 GMT
Got a couple of climbers from the GC today to cover a garden arch. A Solanum Album (a white flowering potato vine) and an Actinidia Kolomikta (related to the Kiwi I think, ). Female cat started chewing the leaves of the Actinidia (doesn't bother with catnip). After a bit of googling found that apart from it having lots of vitamin C in the leaves and fruit, cats can become addicted to chewing the leaves - I should have gone with the climbing rose I was after  |
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