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Our cat Melchett loves catnip, and I love photographing him and our other cats. Neighborhood cats also visit to "borrow" some nip, including Benji, Tommy, and Bob.
We have two cats at the moment, who have one eye between them. Melchett had one eye removed last year due to a cataract, and Gertrude had both eyes removed this year also due to cataracts. All our cats have been named after characters and animals in the TV show Blackadder, including Edmund, Baldrick, Bubbles, Turnip, Percy, Meg, Mrs. Miggins, and Mildred. Some of our cats have come from rescue centers, but many have just appeared at the door, hoping to be fed and have stayed with us for years.
I have been photographing cats since I got my first camera when I was ten years old, and I'm now in my 50s. They are fascinating to photograph as they always do their own thing and are impossible to predict, so they always provide a challenge to photograph successfully.
Nepeta cataria, otherwise known as catnip, catswort, catwort, or catmint, is well known for its attractiveness to cats. What's less known is that domestic cats aren't the only felines that react to it almost the same as domestic ones. Lynxes, leopards, servals, and cougars, and in rarer cases, tigers and lions, all enjoy the recreational effects of catnip. In general, two-thirds of cats have a natural attraction towards it. The most common effects of catnip on cats are rubbing on the plant, rolling on the ground, licking, and chewing. When they overdose, they usually drool and get irritated or sleepy, meow, growl, and purr, or get really scratchy. But other than that, it's a harmless, fun opportunity for cats to relax.
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#1
Benji
Final score:
255points
Yana Friman 5 years ago
The little cunning guy...looks like he's inventing a new trick to try on his hooman)
Marilyn Helling 5 years ago
I give my cat Gracie nip about once a week. She tears up the house and runs around like there's no tomorrow. My son called it Cat Crac
Origami Chik3n 5 years ago
He could play a hyena in "Lion King" with no makeup or digital effects.
Cheryl Fontaine 5 years ago
I learned early on that it simply is not possible to grow catnip in my garden, it doesn't get over an inch high before it is rolled on to death.
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#2
Baldrick
Final score:
254points
alwaysMispelled 5 years ago
I used to get these cosmic bananas for my cat, Monster. He loooooved them!!!
Arenite 5 years ago
One of my cats adores the catnip banana! He doesn’t like the catnip carrot or pineapple, but the banana makes him nuts.
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Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
"Ooh. Is that my tail? I must catch it! More catnip? Must catch it!"
Katie and Jared Coates 5 years ago
Naner! This is our Kodo's favorite toy. He is partial to yellow items, and it is filled with nip. He will lick it for hours. It's brown now.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
Somebody is definitely a Blackadder fan here.
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#3
Edmund
Final score:
253points
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Me after work. Every. Day. (just pure exhausted not because of cat nip)
Suzanne Clark 5 years ago
There's nothing quite so nice as stretching out in the sun on the grass.
#4
Melchett
Final score:
226points
Joe Tengler Jr. 5 years ago
I love the fact you named a.ll your cats on Blackadder characters
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#6
Tommy
Final score:
207points
catslave6 5 years ago
High as a kite! All these cats are wasted and just do not care. Too funny. ;>)
Dee Stern 5 years ago
I don't think it's funny. That's what I look like when I get up in the morning.
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Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Wait till he discovers the tongue doesn't always retract in this state.
#7
Melchett
Final score:
204points
Tracy Wood 5 years ago
He He He! Melchett is the best,he even has the same white belly,chest&chin as my boy too Maybe they're twins.Brothers from another mother?🐾❤️
#8
Melchett
Final score:
196points
Tammy Whitt 5 years ago
He probably hasn’t even told the joke yet!! This is pre laugh. Lol
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Bob Belcher 5 years ago
*They think we don't know how to poop outside so we poop in boxes and then watch them clean it!
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
Everyone's uncle at the Christmas dinner table... "Pull...my... finger!"
#10
Baldrick
Final score:
184points
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
I know from experience that, whether in a planter or a garden, cats will chew a live catnip plant right down to the roots. I don’t know how the growers of what becomes the dried catnip manage to keep their crops intact.
infinite upvote 5 years ago
I have mine in a pot on a garden shelf for this very reason! My parents would grow theirs under an old wire pet cage, maybe commercial growers do something similar
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Diana Dodd 5 years ago
It’s mine and I’m not sharing! Baldrick is an adorable name for such a cute cat ❤️
#11
Melchett
Final score:
169points
#12
Melchett
Final score:
158points
Kimberley Thomas 5 years ago
"(Cough cough) C**p. Catnip went down the wrong windpipe. I still recommend."
AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
He looks as if he has a piercing on the end of his tongue. Goth kitty?
#13
Benji
Final score:
157points
PandaMan 5 years ago
"Damn, I'm sexy. I should get 100,000 followers for this selfie!"
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#14
Edmund
Final score:
156points
Bieann 5 years ago
Yes with a little stick in his hands like a magician...?
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Tom Hardeveld 5 years ago
Dude, I was like... what? and he was like... huh? and then everything was everywhere... It was crazy man...
#15
Meg
Final score:
156points
PandaMan 5 years ago
"Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On a, Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my paw In other words, baby, lick me!"
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Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
"I'm a super hero.....why is everybody upside down?....Must be my superpower."
Caroline Overill 5 years ago
Look, I can bench press 10kg. You see it right? I see it. Wo this dude is strong.
#16
Melchett
Final score:
152points
PandaMan 5 years ago
You meant to quote the movie - Wallstreet "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." Sadly, I think this cat is going to fall into the abyss. ;-) like Charlie Sheen - "Tiger blood will drip from my veins in my quest. Defeat is not an option... The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them, just look like droopy-eyed, armless children."
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#18
Edmund
Final score:
137points
#20
Edmund
Final score:
128points
PandaMan 5 years ago
"Did you say something? Come on Man... show me some respect, I'm running for Senat... um... presi....dent you all know it. Let me get back to my cellar to collect my thoughts, man."
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CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
Only when you are totally bombed, uh, I mean chilled can you be this relaxed.
#21
Melchett
Final score:
126points
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Some fall off the wagon, I fell off the Empire State building...................and I'm still falling.
Alex Wright 5 years ago
You would have reached terminal velocity around 10 seconds and have a minute after wards to think about your life
Load More Replies... Diana Dodd 5 years ago
Okay ... you’ve got me! If I knew where you lived ... I’d be wanting to adopt Melchett. He’s just adorable ❤️
#22
Gertrude
Final score:
126points
Caroline Overill 5 years ago
Does this look furry to you? Tongues aren't supposed to be furry, just the rest of me right?
DC 5 years ago
The fish is cute! Haha, I love those cat toys ... my cats never really liked them, so I ended up playing with them. My favourite - the molecule, a ball with 12 smaller balls arranged around it ... jumps everywhere and anywhere ... totally fun ... but they prefered to watch me playing. Also, cats being high are hilarious, cute and just a nice thing to see ... how being wasted is an innocent fun no one will ever use against them...
#23
Melchett
Final score:
124points
Eagle Girl 5 years ago
I'm just gonna put my head down for a minute...and one paw on the floor
#24
Baldrick
Final score:
122points
#28
Melchett
Final score:
102points
Turnip Towers (Submission author) 5 years ago
He does like sticking his tongue out :) 10885138_9...4af41f.jpg 
IwiLLsTeaLyOuRsoUl 5 years ago
Melchett has issues his name appears 16 times in total out of thirty cats ahem...a little bit of a junkie XD but adorable anyhoo
#29
Melchett
Final score:
99points
CharliAnn Olney 5 years ago
No wonder Melchett is such a beautiful cat. Too cool to be anything but!
#31
Melchett
Final score:
15points
#32
Edmund
Final score:
14points
#33
Edmund
Final score:
13points
#34
Melchett
Final score:
12points
#39
Melchett
Final score:
10points
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troufaki13 5 years ago
My cat must be the only cat in the entire universe that doesn't like catnip... :/
Sarah Huston 5 years ago
Not all cats do. It's genetically determined which ones react and which don't. https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/08/catnip/
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Sherri Haight 5 years ago
I made a bored panda account just to say not only cute pics awesome blackadder names
Podunkus 5 years ago
Neither does my cat, so instead we share a pint every now and then. 🍺
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CaptainDinosaur 5 years ago
My boy Attila is a 14 year old tabby and he's never liked catnip, but if a human-type is... ahh... let's say enjoying some people-nip, he just has to come enjoy the atmosphere.
troufaki13 5 years ago
My cat must be the only cat in the entire universe that doesn't like catnip... :/
Sarah Huston 5 years ago
Not all cats do. It's genetically determined which ones react and which don't. https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/08/catnip/
Load More Replies... Sherri Haight 5 years ago
I made a bored panda account just to say not only cute pics awesome blackadder names
Podunkus 5 years ago
Neither does my cat, so instead we share a pint every now and then. 🍺
Load More Replies... CaptainDinosaur 5 years ago
My boy Attila is a 14 year old tabby and he's never liked catnip, but if a human-type is... ahh... let's say enjoying some people-nip, he just has to come enjoy the atmosphere.
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