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From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Catnip
Message-ID: <1186@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 01:17:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 01:17:07 1986
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Reply-To: booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards)
Organization: Cadillac Ranch, Oakland
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In article <2134@amd.UUCP> tc@amd.UUCP (Tom Crawford) writes:
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>I think that catnip toys you buy at the pet store are much too expensive.  You
>can make a perfectly seviceable catnip toy by getting bulk catnip ($.55 oz) at
>any good herb or tea store.  You put a little on a small (say 3 in sq) piece
>of fabric and tie it up with dental floss.  Don El Gato likes it best when I
>use the pocket from an old white shirt.

Another note re:catnip toys. They are NOT always going to have catnip in
them. For Christmas, my roommate (an avowed Large Dog Man) decided to bury
the hatchet with Mehitabel by showering her with cat toys. She won't play
with them.

He suspected that the catnip sock was defective. He opened it up and emptied
it. IT WAS ENTIRELY STUFFED WITH STRAW!! Straw is decidedly not catnip. He
reloaded the thing with catnip and resewed (there is something very endearing
about a man wielding a needle and thread to amke peace with a 8 pound tabby).
The cat will at least sniff it and flop over (her way of being stoned).

Don't buy "catnip toys". Roll your own. After all, why should cat drugs be
any different than yours? :-)

E
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