I ask as loads of people say it drives the cat crazy.

I've bought toys which supposedly have catnip in, but our cat doesn't seem to play with them (or show any interest in them).

Questions really would be;
Does this only affect female cats (Ours is a castrated male)
Would this mean the stuff I have is crap (almost sounds like I'm trying to score for my cat!)
Where would i get decent stuff



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Those toys you can buy don't have that much catnip in them but you can buy the stuff in its natural dried form which is better, I think most large pet stores keep it in this format or go online.

I have filled the bottom part of an old sock, tied it, doubled it over, and tied again and cut off the excess which leaves a ball type object filled with the stuff.

Trouble was I did get concerned when an hour or two later the cat is still playing with it in a sense of delirium..... kindof made me feel like a pusher so took it away and hid it.

The smell gets weaker over time and in turn the cats seemed to get less interested in it.

I watched on TV cats going totally hyper and frothing on catnip -they were totally drugged up- but this was a catnip plant, rather than a toy
Wonder if catnip works on the other type of pussy?

We've got it in a spray form, doesn't really work unless its just our cat thats weird. Gonna have to get some herbal catnip ordered when we order some 'lion poo' (yes, you read that right! )

Culpeper do the best catnip known to felinekind

http://www.culpeper.co.uk/acatalog/Catnip-Toys-Cat...

not the cheapest available, but the best quality, lasts for ages and in the last 15 years, only a couple have ever had their guts spilled... which, considering that this one brings in a dead rodent at least 4 times a week, is pretty good going.


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+1 for Culpeper. A friend of ours bought our two cats a catnip fish from Culpeper for Xmas last year. Its still going strong and still sends them mental and its been dumped in the water bowl and dried out several times! Plus when they've been playing with it a while it also needs drying out because they have slobbered over it so badly. Other catnip toys we've bought don't even get touched, I think they've become catnip snobs!

Yeowww also do an excellent range of catnip toys we had this rainbow one for ages. All three would play with it at various times.
http://www.partnerspets.com/store/product/20672/Be...

Several varieties available via ebay.

Catnip has been shown to provide aphrodisical effects in cats but no one seems to know why. It affects males and females neutered or uneutered to varyin degrees, some barely seem to bother ot6hers (either sex) go nuts for it!)

One thing it always is, is fun to watch the reaction

Try growing it in the garden ours used to lay all over it probably tripping the day away!

Some cats just don't have the catnip 'gene', around 30% of cats that is. We have five cats, three who go mad for the stuff and two siblings who don't bat an eyelid at it.

I grow catnip as a "pot" plant indoors for the cats. I break off leaves and they go mad for it. The male cat eats it, the female cat rolls in it.

If you haven't already seen it, search out the episode of Mongrels where the cat Marion gets high on catnip. So funny if you are a cat owner.