What kind of catnip addict is your cat?

[politicat]

Someday, we will extend the war on drugs to the felines, but until then, we can laugh at them while they are stoned out of their gourds.

Still, each cat reacts to the nip in a slightly different fashion.
Some are cocaine-nippers: paranoid, wired, frazzled, but a short high and then back to reality.

Some cats are meth-nippers: long hours of fruitless shaky buzz, hyper and bizarre, but not quite as paranoid as the coke kitties.

Then there are the nodder-nippers: cats for whom nip acts like heroin, putting them out of the blue and into the black in a matter of minutes.

The pot-nippers get the munchies, lay around and think deep thoughts, but have no way of communicating those thoughts.

The Acid-nippers are the ones that have imaginary fights with unknown creatures, often ending with the cat on the curtain rods and the curtains shredded.

We have a nodder and a cocaine kitty; we used to have a bong hit cat as well.

What about yours?

[politicat]

1. ?

That sank like a stone....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Milo seems unaffected.

First cat I ever knew who didn't seem to care about the stuff. The late great Teddy, however, was pretty much a coke-nipper.

[politicat]

3. Is he a kitten?

I've heard that cats don't become affected by it until maturity....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. No, he's about 2-1/2. Maybe he's just a teetotaler.

[MrSlayer]

4. I don't get my cats high.

Though the one has been known to hang around a session in the basement with me and my friends. Strange how when the bowl is done, he leaves.

[bridgit]

5. Tim is a full blown Nighthawk Nip-head...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4522716&mesg_id=4522716

[barb162]

6. mine roll around a lot in it and get it all over the house

[XOKCowboy]

7. Or he used to anyway....

He'd do the "crouch and bolt" getting all excited like something was after him. He was a connousseur of catnip also. Always liked the fresh grown bud...

[Callalily]

9. My cat is drug free,

and will always be drug free.

[Politically_Wrong]

18. Same with my cat!

I was reading your post and I forget what your cats name is...You told me before but I forget...Its really annoying me because I forget (I hate when I forget stupid stuff and then it bugs me when I can't remeber it!)

[Callalily]

19. Ah, you're sweet!

My cats name is Tippy. I'd post a pic, but it's quite large, but I think you've seen it already. I just feel uncomfortable about giving her catnip. Some people think I'm nuts for thinking that, but that's the way I feel. Now, doesn't your cat's name begin with the letter T also? Something like Tabitha?

[Politically_Wrong]

20. Yes...

her name is Tabitha (good memory)...I have seen the picture of Tippy! And I can understand why you feel uncomfortable giving Tippy catnip...Tab goes crazy if she doesn't have her daily catnip! :rofl:

[Callalily]

21. Did you ever think

of entering her in a 12-step program?

[Politically_Wrong]

25. Hmmmm...

I'll have to look into it! :rofl:

[Callalily]

26. Well you know,

maybe we should just let our old cats have some fun! At least mine. She's in her waning years, maybe it'll make her last years more pleasant?

[Politically_Wrong]

32. Same here...

My cat is in her twilight years...She is getting up there in age and I think it's time to let her have some fun...I was thinking about letting her outside during the summer (but not for long...and I of course would be by her side the entire time) She is always trying to sneak out...and of course she will be rewarded catnip for good behavior!

[DS1]

10. 'nip Rambo

:scared:

[ZombieNixon]

11. Our cats get their catnip by chewing on their scratching post,

which is filled with the stuff.

One's a cocaine-nipper, hyper, frisky, wants to play.

The other used to be a meth-nipper, but as she got older, she's become a pot-nipper.

[kwassa]

12. You forgot "alcohol". My cats act stone drunk.

and get aggressive, when we use the nip. They can't stand upright, lean against the cat post, and just writhe in the stuff.

[catzies]

29. Mine too! He'll wolf it, then pick a fight with my old lady cat

then he passes out. :P

[madinmaryland]

13. Other. My cat hates catnip.

Won't even lick it off of herself when we put it on her. Just won't try the stuff. All of our other cats have loved catnip.

[meow2u3]

14. Other: my cat likes "human catnip"

In other words, he's a stoner.

[LynneSin]

15. One Herion-junkie catnipper and one who lives the clean life

Evita doesn't get the Catnip stuff and wonders why I force her to live a life with a drug-addled cat like Abbott!

[Mumble]

16. I put the catnip in a pipe....

...and smoke it myself. My cat can get her own catnip if she wants to chase her tail.

[huskerlaw]

17. Riley's completely

apathetic about catnip. In fact, he seems rather annoyed by the smell. :shrug:

[Robeson]

22. One of mine is, and two aren't.

[Mutley]

23. My parent's cat was a pothead kitty.

You'd find him laying in a closet with glazed eyes looking up at you. He passed away a few years ago (R.I.P. AJ). Their other cats ignore catnip.

[hyphenate]

24. With 5 of them

it's difficult to know all of their reactions, but my eldest, Jessica, will pretty much lie down on top of her portion and go to sleep.

[Beaverhausen]

27. If they smell it they get wired; if they eat it they zone out

[graywarrior]

28. My cat nearly tears my arm off when I'm taking his "supply"

out of the kitchen cabinet. He's like a junkie in bad need of a fix.

[catzies]

31. I keep the Cosmic Catnip in a tub on the end table. When he wants some

he just knocks the container onto the floor!

And then I obey.

[gollygee]

30. My cat doesn't care about it in slightest

she's 8

[ComerPerro]

33. Total pothead. He just chills, and can't get enough of the stuff

We put some catnip on a scratch pad one time to get him to use it (unfortunately, those things only work well if you train them on it while they are still a kitten).

All he did was sniff it, then rub his head on it, then he rubbed it all over his whole body, laid on the scratch pad, and passed out.


Once we took one of his toy mice, put it in a bag of catnip and shook it around, and then gave it to him to play with.

He sniffed it, and the proceeded to scoop it up with his paw and rub it on his head and body like it was a bar of soap. Then he ate a bunch of food and fell asleep in the bathroom, in front of the food bowl.