How do you use catnip?

I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice?

I sprinkle it on their scratching boxes. Sometimes they eat some of it,
but usually they just scratch it, rub their faces in it, roll around in
it, sit on it, or sleep on top of the scratching box. Sometimes they
sleep on the floor and use the scratching box as a pillow.

They also like catnip toys if the catnip is fresh. After it's been in
there a while it must loose it's potency as they loose interest until I
fill it with fresh catnip out of the jar.

Whenever I open the catnip jar, no matter where they are in the house,
they come running. Even if they were asleep in the back bedroom, they
can smell it.

They like catnip so much that I grew a big patch for them in the
garden, but they prefer the dried kind from the store. However, a
neighbor cat found the catnip patch and spent weeks sitting in it.

Newbie wrote:
I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to attract them to food
they don't otherwise find appealing?

I've used it fresh - if available, or the usual (get-it-at-the-store)
dried variety. Usually I just sprikle it on the floor & let them roll
in it &/or eat it. In the summer I tend to sprinkle it out on the
porch floor - eliminating inside clean-up of leftover catnip later on.
I've also tied a handful of it up in a piece of fabric, very tightly
tying it closed - so that the cats can't get the string/ribbon off.

Cathy

Mine love to eat it and roll in it. I take little piles of it and put one
down for each of the 3 cats so they have their own to play in.

Celeste

"Newbie" wrote in message
...
I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to attract them to food
they don't otherwise find appealing?

"Fat Freddy" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
: I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
: it in practice?
:
: I sprinkle it on their scratching boxes. Sometimes they eat some of it,
: but usually they just scratch it, rub their faces in it, roll around in
: it, sit on it, or sleep on top of the scratching box. Sometimes they
: sleep on the floor and use the scratching box as a pillow.
:
: They also like catnip toys if the catnip is fresh. After it's been in
: there a while it must loose it's potency as they loose interest until I
: fill it with fresh catnip out of the jar.
:
: Whenever I open the catnip jar, no matter where they are in the house,
: they come running. Even if they were asleep in the back bedroom, they
: can smell it.
:
: They like catnip so much that I grew a big patch for them in the
: garden, but they prefer the dried kind from the store. However, a
: neighbor cat found the catnip patch and spent weeks sitting in it.



If you hang it upside down for about a month then u have the same or even
better dried stuff.


Carola

Fat Freddy wrote:
snipped.
Whenever I open the catnip jar, no matter where they are in the house,
they come running. Even if they were asleep in the back bedroom, they
can smell it.
snipped

They also can find it no matter where you hide it if it isn't sealed up
in a jar. I put a package of catnip on top of the refrigerator, behind
some cereal boxes. In the morning the cereal was on the floor, and
there was catnip all over the place. It must have been quite a party.

Sherry

In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Newbie wrote:
I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to attract them to food
they don't otherwise find appealing?

We put some in a zippered baggie, then take a couple of small furry mice
toys (we have 2 cats, so one for each) and put them in, shake the baggie
to cover the mice, take them out, shake off the excess and give them each
a mouse. We have 2 happy cats after about 5 minutes of them rolling all
over the mice, but the mice end up all slobbery...

brian
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Diane wrote:
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Kitkat wrote:


Dudley loves catnip. He REALLY loves the catnip banana.

http://public.fotki.com/kitkatluna/m.../dscf0030.html


Makes sense -- given his sensory impairments, smell must be a real treat
to him.


Yeah, I am sure that is it. His little nose is his little guide to life!

pam

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:34:55 GMT, Newbie wrote:

I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to attract them to food
they don't otherwise find appealing?

After I wash the cat toys, I store them in a plastic bag with catnip.
Some of the soft toys have a compartment for catnip built in.

BarB

On Fri 05 Aug 2005 12:34:55a, Newbie wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
):

I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do
you use it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to
attract them to food they don't otherwise find appealing?


3 of my current 4 like catnip. My previous 2 liked it, though it
didn't really effect one of them - he just liked to eat it. I use
it in various ways. In old socks where you tie it shut, though one
of my newest makes short work out of chewing a hole in the sock and
catnip ends up everywhere. I use it to scent new cat furniture so
they know it's theirs. Sometimes they get some on a scratching toy
to eat. I've even used it to "marinate" toy mousies (put mousie in
jar of catnip for a few days) and then give mousie to kitties.
Watch them fight over it. LOL Works better to do this with a few
mousies.

--
Cheryl

"The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited
breath."
- W.C. Fields

Newbie writes:

I have heard a lot about cats liking catnip, but how exactly do you use
it in practice? Can it be used as food additive to attract them to food
they don't otherwise find appealing?

Back when we still had cats, we tried it, and neither one of 'em responded to
it...

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