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@@Theboxingobserver The plant name is Catnip. Mint family. Cat's love it and go funny. People also can make tea, eat raw leaves of it. But cat's act funny, chew it fresh if find in the garden or get access to the indoor plant, they go crazy when sniff it, etc.
I saw a programme many years ago that looked at weird stuff in nature and they looked at animals on substances, let's jus say! This particular episode in question opened up with numerous cats in a garden with catnip and they were completely off their teets on the stuff! Some were rolling round, there was lots of meowing, some purring and some were even chasing imaginary mice! It was crazy, I jus wish I could remember the name of that programme, though... That same episode showed a few things that Casual Geographic looked at when he covered the subject, such as the legless bees and the monkey being stoned literally out of his tree thanks to a centipede!
This is the most interested my cat has ever been in a video in 10 years. She was sniffing and swatting at the screen and became very excited with large pupils as if she was on nip herself. Amazing!
I've always seen other people's cats sniff and rub on the catnip but my cat would always just straight up eat the whole pile of it and then proceed to squeeze herself into the smallest possible container she could fit her chonk in and stare into space for an hour
Cats are so aloof, elegant, regal and poised. You give them a pinch of catnip and all of this distinguished cattitude goes up in flames in seconds. It's like they are a different animal.
My boy Jack pretends he doesn't want any of it when the other cats are around. But if I sneak him some when it's just him, he rolls around in it like a baby, it's hilarious. Cats have such adorable personalities
@@jaredmclaren5571 of all my kitties Jack is for sure the one to do that 🤣. My big tux cat, Milo, just rolls around and covers himself in it no matter who's watching haha
Catnip is super easy to grow, if your cat doesn’t react to the dried stuff - it’s worth trying. Neither of my cats react to the dry, but they both would chew up the fresh grown.
I have 2 house panthers; a Tuxedo Ragdoll and a Mini Maine Coon, and they both love catnip. Recently I was delighted to find some high - grade catnip that is literal top buds on the stalk and it's much better than the usual homogenized powder mixed with lots of lumber ( smaller branches cut up to extend the bunk ) that most pet stores like to sell us. I have a short story to tell about catnip which may inspire some of you reading this: A guy took some catnip plants and grew them indoors, but he introduced a blacklight which he would turn on briefly, the 'On ' time getting gradually longer as time went on ( forgive me, I don't know the specifics but it was a matter of a few seconds increase every time as I understand it ) WELL, this guy had his first harvest, and decided to bring some of his catnip over to a buddy's place ( who owned a cat ) - but he never made it there because as he was walking to his friend's house, about 30 cats had started following him due to the smell of the potent catnip. He had to run back home and hope all the cats would leave him alone.
I have a tiny white girl cat. The other day I accidentally spilled to much catnip on the kitchen floor. A few minutes later she came into my bedroom and startled me, because my white cat was completely green. She had completely covered herself in it. It was so funny.
Years ago, my cat Boots absolutely went BONKERS when I first gave her catnip. She danced all over the place when she smelled it, and gladly gulped every bite of it! She was a real sweetheart.
My mum had some large, many-years-old catnip bushes growing in the garden which were very beautiful, nice smelling and aesthetic plants whoses purple flowers attracted hoardes of butterflies. The farm cats also loved to lounge right in the center of these bushes, lying on their backs and completely zoned out in the catnip scent under the Summer sun, occassionally taking tiny nibbles of the leaves whilst very slowly pawing at the air as butterflies went past. These farm cats were normally quite serious working animals but amongst those catnip bushes, they turned into a pair of very chilled out stoned hippy cats at peace with nature and the world around them. Warm memories of a past time.
If you have cats that don't react to catnip, try silvervine. It grows in the mountains of Japan and all cats react to it. It is pretty expensive though.
We had a feral "barn cat" (male) that I tried to tame. I got it so I could pet its head, but trying to touch any other part of its body caused it to hiss, swat at me and run away. I always wore work gloves when interacting with that cat. I bought some catnip labeled "The Good Stuff, Dude" and put it out for the cat in the hopes it would make him more friendly. To my utter surprise, the cat had no reaction to the stuff at all. As strange as it seems, horses are more closely related to cats than either are to humans (they are both Laurasiatherians) and so I tried the catnip on my horse and the one next to him. They didn't go nuts like some cats do, but they were definitely interested.
A few years back, I send catnip via snail mail to a friend with a birthday card for his cat. When they got home from work, they dropped the mail on the counter. Their cat puled the envelope to the ground and was rolling on the envelope and meowing. They didn't open it at first, just put it back on the counter. The cat kept knocking the envelope to the ground, rolling on it with a lamenting meow. My friends got impatient scolding the cat - They eventually opened the envelope to discover a birthday card for the cat and a small sachet of catnip. Priceless.
It's actually thought that the bathing thing is the reason cats like the stuff. It's basically an insect repellent, so instinct tells them to rub it all over themselves (provided the scientists are correct, of course)
One of my cats rolled around in the stuff, the other one just ate it. Both got super sensitive to touch and start to fight halfheartedly with each other. Their first contact with it was accidental at night, when they got into the food cupboard, and destroyed the newly bought package. I had the white carpet covered in 50 gram catnip when I got downstairs in the morning, and two very stoned cats. They did not touch the ‘nip for quite a while after this.
During the Summer months I am lucky to have catnip growing wildly in my yard. This fresh catnip (which gives off it's very unique potent smell once picked or rubbed) has driven every cat 🐈I know into a pleasurable high for a short time! It's hilarious especially when my three cats start swatting at each other in fun 😂 There is a world of difference between the dry and the freshly picked! Once I pick the fresh it's like my cats turn into flying squirrels coming at me because the smell drives them nuts!
I used to buy a pot of fresh catnip when I did my weekly shopping. My daughter's cat would go up on his hind legs and miaule when I took the catnip out of the shopping bag and happily chomp on it. He liked flowers too. He would start by smelling, then rubbing then chomping.
My parents, who were not big cat people, had catnip growing in their backyard and would complain how many cats were in the garden....🤣🤣🤦♀🤦♀ After a while my mom grew fond of watching them reacting to the catnip plant and told my dad to keep it. They had a beautiful English garden and didn't realize that catnip is part of the mint family and that they had gotten a catnip plant. My spouse found what we thought was a mint plant in our backyard, turns out it's a catnip plant. We sometimes go and get fresh catnip for our indoor cats. It explains why our next door neighbor's cat, Bob, loves to hang out in our backyard when he sneaks out of the house.
When I was a kid sitting in the living room one Sunday morning with my mother reading paper my cat came trotting down the stairs with my bag of marijuana in his mouth! The pot wasn't very good in those days but it is similar to catnip!! God bless all kitties and those who love them!
One day one of my cats just sat on the couch and wouldn't move for hours. This lasted for several days. I finally figured out he had gotten into a bag of catnip that was in a cupboard and had been snacking on it all day for days. He was a very stressy cat (a rescue) and I think it eased him. I put the catnip in a higher cupboard and doled it out in a more reasonable dosage. His passions were food and catnip.
I had a cat who once got into the bag of catnip and was laying in the hall just looking at the wall. We had to start putting it in more secure location. She usually hated being picked up, but that day she was like a ragdoll and was like: "Okay, you move me now." 🤣🤣 We kept checking on her until she was out of her daze, "Collette, are you still alive? Do you want food and water?" I miss that goofy cat.
This is wholesome. Unless it has bad effects on long term usage (like cigarettes, opiates etc. for us), I would have had that cat roll in it as much as iit wants.
Interesting Parents had a cat that would need a dark place after having the cat nip almost like a drunk or specific types of weed but he only liked the buds/flowers and smallest of leaves sometimes on the plant as if the rest was not strong enough and his sister liked the stem first by playing with it before chewing on it only but got stimulated by it almost like a person on meth or speed a specific type of meth going faster then most average house cats can.
It's thought that the reason the gene that makes cats sensitive to catnip and catmint, is that the oils in those plants that evolved to ward off pests also work on the parasites that affect cats, stuff like fleas and ticks. This means that over time, cats that responded to the catnip and mint by rolling in it were less likely to suffer from infestations, so the gene got passed down.
That is very interesting, I have one boy who I have to remove ticks frequently, the flea and tick treatment I use won't kill them, I use the only one that works on fleas because all the others I tried don't work, seems the fleas have become immune to these, anyway I'll try catnip next time there is a tick just to see what happens. It seems strange that Mr Tibbs is frequently attracting ticks whilst my other 4 cats seldom have them I need to research why
I previously had 10 cats. They all went crazy over catnip. After they all passed, we adopted an adult cat and later a stranded outside now inside cat. One loves the nip while the other couldn’t care less.
I have 4 cats. One doesn’t respond to catnip. However, when I get the spices out, he ADORES Oregano and Rosemary. He doesn’t get high, but he’s definitely excited by the scents and rubs his face on the plastic bags holding the spices.
Yeah, one of my cats couldn't care less about catnip. The other isn't thrilled about it, but a dangle toy that had catnip on it, be ame his favorite place to lay on. I guess it had a calming affect on him. He goes crazy though when I'm taking my herb supplements, and tries to get them from me. He loves peppermint more than anything. And his absolute favorite place to lay is in the dirty laundry on things that smell like mildew. I'll put the laundry up, and he'll intentionally knock it over again, and pulls out dish towels and his favorite of all...a dirty wash cloth. He acts with it like other cats do with catnip.🤷🏼♀️
@@srvntlilly I like herb supplements too. Does your cat get in the way when you are trying to roll them up in their special dispensing papers? My cat always used to do that so I started using an Indian style peace pipe. It always makes me feel really peaceful. lol
@@srvntlilly Yeah! My gf used to have a cat that was CRAZY about peppermint.....she didn't notice this until she had left a package of peppermint tea bags out, and found them shredded up, all over the floor&cat. His nose would get a bit runny, and he would get cat zoomies.....who would have known that peppermint is similar to cat coke 🤷♂️
I don't have cats, but the raccoons that come around at night to feast on left over dog food love it. It seemed to relax them and they just rolled around on the ground and had a few lame wrestling matches with each other.
My special needs tortie would roll around in cat nip. She passed away in January and I am still struggling to cope, but the memories of her rolling in catnip warm my heart. Thank you for sharing
I had several stalks of fresh catnip laying outside my door as I planned on harvesting it. By the time I came to get it, one of my cats was lying there covered in catnip. He was drooling so the leaves were stuck all over him. He was very "content" 😊
my cats used to never react to it, but we got them some fresh catnip and they went absolutely wild for it! It's planted in our garden now and they just chill out there all day eating the leaves. so if you find your cat doesn't react to dry catnip try giving them a fresh leaf instead :)
@@qtpie4397 Dried and fresh shrooms contain the same alkaloids like psilocybin and psilocin. I don’t understand why dried wouldn’t effect you but fresh does.
I grow organic catnip. It effects each cat differently and the part of the plant they get can make a difference as well as the freshness. Not all respond but I've found it's more like 80% enjoy 20% don't in my area. I've been told that in Australia the number of cats that respond to catnip is quite low as the original cats brought over didn't carry that particular gene.
Interesting! As an Aussie maybe that's why none of the cats my close family or I have owned had a reaction to it. All just treated it like we were shoving mint in their faces - with great disgust and insult lol
@@gtuyhjkml Lol, feline disdain. I'm familiar. From what I've been told. Cats are not indigenous and were brought over by the British. They were kept on the ships to keep the rats at bay. But it seems the cats they brought over, though rather prolific with reproduction, did not carry the catnip reaction gene. Now I'm not a historian or a biologist. I am simply that crazy woman up the hill who grows catnip. You know, the one with all the weird plants and the cats. So take my history lesson with a grain of, well catnip LOL. Oh the tea was very nice.
Cats usually develop a taste for either catnip or valerian by the time they're one year old. It is said to have a pheromone-like smell to them which would be why kittens have little to no reaction to it. If catnip doesn't work on your adult cat, try valerian. There are very few cats who don't like either.
Both our cats react to catnip, but the younger male gets dopey/agitated, while the much older female gets kinda chill by simply laying down next to it and just sniffing it. In both cases, the moment passes within minutes and they lose interest in it...till the next time they come across it.
My cat Patches goes into what we affectionately call “Dumbass Mode,” where she throws herself at the banana (banana shaped toy with catnip inside) with reckless abandon and just the goofiest look on her face. She’s so cute
Aww, I have a female rescue cat named Patches as well! 💖💖💖💖💖💖 She loves toys filled with catnip. I also rub some of the smaller toys with crushed catnip.
Catnip is in the same family as mint, it's also called catmint. The smell of the fresh leaves are also similar to mint, but milder, and you can make a nice tea out of it. Maybe Polo Mints also have some catmint oil :)
I planted some catnip outside that comes back every year on it own and my cats absolutely love it. They’ll climb in it and roll all through it and chew on the leaves and stems
the first time my cat encountered catnip he freaked out! For about 30 minutes he couldn't get enough. Then he calmed down and completely lost interest. He has never reacted to catnip again, it was one and done for him
Catnip contains a compound called nepetalactone, which can mimic feline pheromones. When cats come into contact with catnip, it often triggers a response that includes rolling, rubbing, purring, and overall excitement. This behavior is believed to be an inherited reaction to the herb, and not all cats are affected by it. The effects usually last for about 10 to 15 minutes, after which the cat may lose interest until some time has passed.
My cat definitely has the gene lol. The first time she saw catnip she just stared at it, occasionally slapping it like "What do you expect me to do with this?" then she sniffed it and immediately began rolling around to cover herself with it. I've heard some cats get more affectionate after having catnip. That wasn't really the case with her, she was purring but it seemed like she couldn't care less that I was standing next to her.
actually they can become more playful, as you can see on the video, more symptoms depends I guess, but it seems that it’s most likely they become more playful than affectionate as far as I observed, affection goes from cat to cat :)
Surprisingly the opposite, two naturally affectionate cats became pretty aggressive with it towards each other and us in general so we didn't give them much- our other more aloof cat becomes a kitten with catnip
Well, I tried it on my cat. He was a stray cat to begin with. Over the time of me feeding him and he was not anymore shy, I tried mixing some the dried catnip in his food and walla! Going Bob Marley mood and super friendly still until this day.
There's a big difference between commercial catnip and naturally collected and dried catnip. I have both kinds. The natural one I give my cat consists of just leaves. Nepeta Cataria . She definitely prefers the more potent of the two!
Of course the natural picked one is gonna be better. Just as an example, try store bought peppermint and using mint leaves picked from the garden. Much better and greater taste of the garden ones
@@michixinqq not always, if catnip is some form of psychotropic for cats then it is different. Fresh picked herbs will always taste fresher, but commercial ones typically have been genetically enhanced to be bigger, last longer, and be stronger. I grow my own tobacco but smoking the stuff i grow is completely different to smoking store bought tobacco, the one you buy in a store is stronger and smoother because of all the stuff the put in it.
haha it may be due to your comment but when I went to 1:34-1:41 (because of your comment) it was the most viewed timestamp (is that one word? doesn't look right, anyways)...when you put the cursor on the timeline it shows a graph of the most/least popular views (repeats and such) and everything was one single straight line until exactly 1;34-1:41 where a perfect triangle forms ______/\______ I don't know why I just gave a demonstration...I think all *this* catnip is getting to me. Just thought I'd interrupt you 5 months after your initial comment to give you a heads up on this phenomenon. Your welcome 😸
@@susanivy3619ye i like this theory but maybe it might be because of the el gato cat was funny and angry that it was the most replayed for that reason maybe or both who knows
That's literally what I said when watching the video "don't touch my stuff" I said out loud when the cat smacked the hand away...like stuff being you know stash
We had a mixed tabby shopcat many years ago, she was quite the psycho. Catnip would increase her psychotic tendencies (think angry drunk), but green olives, for whatever reason, would have more of a normal "catnip" effect on her.
@@msmoonbeam91 Oh boy. "Coffee beans, grounds and brewed coffee contain caffeine, a very dangerous and toxic chemical to cats and dogs. Ingestion can be life threatening. According to the Pet Poison Helpline, a moderate amount of coffee can easily cause death in small dogs or cats."
@@remibrooks5994 true! I only found this out myself after googling when I came home to see our dogs had gotten into the ur bins and chewed open the coffee pods we’d chucked!
Years ago I harvested our catnip and hung it in bundles to dry from a beam in a loft area . In The wee hours I was awaken by a loud commotion to find my cats others in the area involved in a wild catnip induced free for all! How they managed to get it down is beyond me! It was hilarious and unforgettable.
I once left a bag of dried catnip in the garage and forgot about it until I found that my cat Loki found it and had chewed it open, as it was all over the garage floor.
The cat looking under the plate at 1:98 is so funny! Most of the cats tried to find the source of magic in the cat-nip! Most of them are wondering "What is this?!" Great video!
The first cat that I owned that responded to catnip, really responded. I think she would have OD'd if she'd gotten into that much! Half a tsp had her all but passed out on the floor, eyes completely dilated, looking as if she'd single-handedly just smoked 6 whole doobies of "the good stuff"!
We had catnip growing in our garden, our cats would lie in it, chew some, go "gaga" with their mouths open. Later they would go to sleep in the plant. When they woke up they seemed very tired.
My mother had two cats. One would sit there and gorge on the catnip, get spacey and then pass out. The other would roll in it and then climb the walls. Funny how cats respond differently.
I’ve heard eating it makes it act like a sedative (cat gets sleepy) while rubbing it on their fur makes them hyper (which syncs with what you described and with my personal observations since I, too, have 1 cat who eats it then naps and 1 cat who rolls around in it then gets the zoomies).
I needed this today, thank you. Watching them absolutely BATHE in it is hilarious. My Russian Blue has zero effs to give about catnip, yet if I eat any dill pickle chips, he's on me like white on rice, literally forcing his nose into my mouth to sniff the dill, it's so weird. He's a lovebug who sits around my shoulders/in my lap all the time so he's always nearby but the AGGRESSIVENESS towards dill is ridiculous lmao.
My cat also doesn't much care for catnip, but she will try to eat my coconut cookies. Apparently coconut oil is tasty to some cats? I have literally held such a cookie over my head to keep it out of reach and she's climbed me trying to get to it. And don't get me started on milk! (Of course she's one of the 80% who's lactose intolerant. This doesn't stop her.) Ridiculous girl.
My previous cats enjoyed catnip a bit...but they went absolutely INSANE for two things--my fish's algae disks, and the cranberry oil capsules I had for UTIs. Like...would fight me for them, almost chewed through the thick plastic cap on the pill bottle trying to get into them. No other supplement--even fish oil!--interested them. 🤷🏼♀️
I have catnip in my garden, some cats eat it, some roll in it (I think of it as "perfuming" themselves), and I have even had a cat who took a stem of catnip between its front paws, and started dancing with it on its back legs.
I found that my Tortoiseshell (calico short hair) also does not care for catnip BUT my long-haired Tortie loves it and goes nuts. She literally tries to climb the walls. My Orientals (Siamese, Himalayan, and Burmese) also love it and acted just about the same way yours did. My standard short-hairs just chilled out and looked at me with dilated eyes as if they were saying 'hey man, what's up dude?'
