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My cat is totally stoned on catnip.

K'Ehleyr

K'Ehleyr

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So it appears to be catnip (catmint) season as Sir Squeak (my cat) is coming home more and more 'out of his tiny little head'!
We live opposite a copse and I reckon they have a little 'cat bar' there where they munch away at the weed.
This morning after waking us at 6am with the 'munchies' and demanding to go out again ~ obviously it was an all night session. Sir Squeak staggered back when I whistled, barely made the jump into the window and sat by me and just stared ~ pupils dilated.
Apparently it has affects of either cannibis or LSD and can have hallucinogenic effects.
What exactly would a cat hallucinate about?

But now I do understand why said Cat is keen to sleep in Son's room :rolleyes:

Anyone else had cats effected by catnip in anyway?
 
Yeah, I've had cats who went totally nuts on catnip. They would roll around in it and act like they were hallucinating.

I don't think it affects kittens under about six months old, though. At least, that's what experience has shown.
 
Many years ago (20?) we had two cats and 2 dogs. I had worked in an animal shelter and adopted 3 of the four animals. I'd never been a cat owner before, so cat behavior was all very new to me.

I bought the cats a catnip toy. The older one went crazy! She ran around the house like a lunatic, jumped on the dining room table and PEED!!!!!!

I took that freakin toy away from them so fast you'da missed it if you blinked.
 
I saw a video once of a South American jungle cat stoned out of his gourd on some kind of plant. Apparently, cats love to get high.
 
I know of a poster on this board that likes to give their cats a bit of catnip in their x-mas stockings -and then they all party wild :rommie:
 
Aww, that's cute. They like getting stoned. As long as they don't piss like the cat mentioned above, or engage in destructive behavior, I'd say giving catnip to cats consistently is positive.
 
One of our old cats would eat the catnip and then stagger around like a drunken frat boy. She provided hours of cheap entertainment. Our current cat likes to roll in it and frolick like a kitten, which sounds cute, but she's 10 years old, weighs 16 lbs, and regularly beats the crap out of the neighbourhood toms, so it just looks wrong. :)
 
Robert Maxwell said:
Yeah, I've had cats who went totally nuts on catnip. They would roll around in it and act like they were hallucinating.

I don't think it affects kittens under about six months old, though. At least, that's what experience has shown.
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That is true about kittens - and also true for the majority of Australian cats.

there is a genetic factor to whether a cat is affected or not. The majority of Australian cats come from a very small original stock. It would seem that the cats' ancestors were a group of cats that were immuned to catnip and therefore their descendants are to.

Pure breeds are more likely to be affected by catnip because their ancestors arrived later and aren't a part of the founder stock.
 
macloudt said:
One of our old cats would eat the catnip and then stagger around like a drunken frat boy. She provided hours of cheap entertainment. Our current cat likes to roll in it and frolick like a kitten, which sounds cute, but she's 10 years old, weighs 16 lbs, and regularly beats the crap out of the neighbourhood toms, so it just looks wrong. :)
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The Squeak just looks slightly scared ~ but is very friendly! Must be like 'E' as well I s'pose. I'll just interpret his mieows as "I love you Mum, I really love you. You're sooooo pretty. Can I have some food now ~ I do love you though and will come and sit on your keyboard just as soon as I've eaten".
Made the mistake of showing Son the results of catnip wiki. Think he will be off to the copse to find plant and try and smoke it ~ oh what have I done? :(
 
I used to allow my two cats some capnip from time to time, but, the BOTH went so bonkers at times, (and the 'crash' was bad too, as they are REALLY 'needy' for about a day afterwards), not the stoic independent entities that they usually are; I stopped their 'catnip days'.
 
The Denver zoo used to have wild catnip growing all over the place and my ex wife threw some in with the mountain lion. Seeing a big cat rolling around on it's head stoned was pretty damned funny.
 
Our Tillie gets MEAN. More vicious and evil than normal. And she's pretty vicious and evil normally. Scheisse gets even more paranoid than usual. So, basically, I'd say the 'nip elevates whatever their personality is already.

We used to have cats that would open the kitchen drawer where the 'nip was hidden and pull it out and chew through the plastic bag. Junkies. :)
 
I used to be able to get fresh catnip by the shopping bags full, from a nearby lake, my cat would roll around on the floor and drooooool like crazy, buckets o' drool. :lol:

If I brought home some of the dry flakey stuff from the pet store, she would just ignore it. :lol:
 
I wish had a special story involving cats and catnip, sadly they're just like the ones mentioned here -- they go coo coo for CoCo Puffs, roll around in it, and attack you without reason (not that cats typically have a reason to attack you without warning).

If I ever get my own place and a cat again, and a video camera, there will be some filmin' goin' on.
 
K'Ehleyr said:
The Squeak just looks slightly scared ~ but is very friendly! Must be like 'E' as well I s'pose. I'll just interpret his mieows as "I love you Mum, I really love you. You're sooooo pretty. Can I have some food now ~ I do love you though and will come and sit on your keyboard just as soon as I've eaten".
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He wants to Post a drunkl Thread. :bolian:
 
I think cats are like drones they have a strange one track mind. My cat is always on the look out for tissue paper!

Sometimes he will go batty and run around the living at warp 10! This is sign that he wants to use kitty litter.

Basically Sooty, will attack anything that moves, so the landing party doesn’t stand hells chance of escape.:rommie: Red shirts be warned!

One time Sooty, starred at the wall and I was more curious as to what he might be hearing or sensing? I’ve heard stories that cats are psychic. Or maybe he can hear a mouse squeak behind the cavity wall some 25 feet below as cats have high frequency range of 90KHz/100KHz or a range 40Hz to 90KHz which more than any of us, so we can hear down to 20Hz wow but cat can hear many more octaves above 20KHz.

I wasn’t even aware a mouse squeaks at such a high frequency.

My cat is an indoor type so no change of him, being spiked by drugs by cat haters and there are few of them around.

So maybe the house on the other side is spiking your cat with a high dose of catnip??
 
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