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From: marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough)
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Subject: Re: Catnip
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 16:11:41 EST
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In article <1776@rayssd.UUCP> msf@rayssd.UUCP (Michael S. Frank) writes:
>> 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.
>> 
>I, too, would like to know.  I just recently gave my two 11 week old kittens
>some catnip.  They didn't like it (I had to trick them into eating it by mixing
>it with tuna).  After they did eat it, they were only slightly more active than
>normal.  Are there some cats that catnip won't affect?  Did their age have
>anything to do with it?
>-- 
>Michael Frank

Catnip is not meant to be injested, just smelled by the cats.  We
wrapped it up in a small sock and the cats just smell it and they get
crazy.  And it lasts for months like that.

Bill Landsborough