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Our And Our Neighbor’s Cats Found Catnip And Cat.exe Stopped Functioning (30 Pics)
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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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Benji
Bob
Melchett Worried That The Feds Are After His Stash
Baldrick
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.
Melchett
Melchett
Some fall off the wagon, I fell off the Empire State building...................and I'm still falling.
Gertrude
Melchett
Melchett
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Love Blackadder inspired names ;)
My cat must be the only cat in the entire universe that doesn't like catnip... :/
Not all cats do. It's genetically determined which ones react and which don't. https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/08/catnip/
Thanks for sharing this! I've had 3 cats of the same breed and they all couldn't care less about it.
Have you tried Silver Vine?
Melchett rubs against it like mad and starts drooling :)
My girls don't go crazy over catnip either. Their reaction is usually: Meh.
My cat used to really love it, but not anymore. She much prefers kitty treats and a warm lap
"Kids, there's a time and place for everything, and it's called College" --- yours has just grown out of it. Or it's a Reaganite "Say no to Drugs" character.
I have never had a cat that liked catnip ( about 10 rescue adopted old cats ). Turns out most cats in Australia came from a few cats that just don't have that gene.
I live in West Europe and I've had cats for 30 years now, and none of them reacted to catnip. But most of them love(d) valerian plant (valeriana officinalis), some of them would find the bag and rip it off to get to the dried plant. I never understood why.
I think about 1/4 of cats don't react to nip.
We have 6 indoor cats. I've only given them catnip once. I had cats going NUTS all over the house. Only one was unaffected by it. She looked at the others like they'd lost their minds. Which they had.
I've seen that stats at 30% don't all the way to 50%. In our house we got the Catnip gene for sure!
I made a bored panda account just to say not only cute pics awesome blackadder names
Love Blackadder inspired names ;)
My cat must be the only cat in the entire universe that doesn't like catnip... :/
Not all cats do. It's genetically determined which ones react and which don't. https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/08/catnip/
Thanks for sharing this! I've had 3 cats of the same breed and they all couldn't care less about it.
Have you tried Silver Vine?
Melchett rubs against it like mad and starts drooling :)
My girls don't go crazy over catnip either. Their reaction is usually: Meh.
My cat used to really love it, but not anymore. She much prefers kitty treats and a warm lap
"Kids, there's a time and place for everything, and it's called College" --- yours has just grown out of it. Or it's a Reaganite "Say no to Drugs" character.
I have never had a cat that liked catnip ( about 10 rescue adopted old cats ). Turns out most cats in Australia came from a few cats that just don't have that gene.
I live in West Europe and I've had cats for 30 years now, and none of them reacted to catnip. But most of them love(d) valerian plant (valeriana officinalis), some of them would find the bag and rip it off to get to the dried plant. I never understood why.
I think about 1/4 of cats don't react to nip.
We have 6 indoor cats. I've only given them catnip once. I had cats going NUTS all over the house. Only one was unaffected by it. She looked at the others like they'd lost their minds. Which they had.
I've seen that stats at 30% don't all the way to 50%. In our house we got the Catnip gene for sure!
I made a bored panda account just to say not only cute pics awesome blackadder names