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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Catnip
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 09:48:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 09:48:30 1986
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> Does anybody know the details of what catnip does to cats?  I got Zaphod
> some for Christmas, and he completely freaked out (jumping around, doing
> flips, and then zonking out on the couch for the rest of the day).  All this
> made me wonder if catnip doesn't do something . . . bad to a cat's system.

	As far as I've been able to tell, no, although they do get habituated
to it, so you shouldn't give it to them very often. Catnip is also used by
people, but for the opposite reason - it has a tranquilising effect on humans.
None of my herbal sources lists any problem with it at, no more than you 
would find with camomile or mint (catnip is a mint, by the way).

-- 
jcpatilla

"If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we send all of them ?"