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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Re: Catnip
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 10:55:04 EST
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> From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
> 
> > Catnip is not meant to be injested, just smelled by the cats.  
> 
> Catnip is a plant in the mint family.  My wife has a large patch in her
> vegetable garden. About a dozen neighborhood cats enjoy it immensely
> all year long.  They roll in it and eat it; yes EAT IT.  Since they are
When I lived in Nebraska, I had catnip growing wild in my
flowerbeds. My cats did just as you describe, rolling in it
and eating it. Needless to say, with them rolling in it it
doesn't remain too attractive a plant, but as a mint, it is
enormously hardy. My cats have never been partial to the dried
stuff you can buy in the stores (either before or since their
experience with the live plants); I can't say I blame them.
try smelling the difference if you ever get the chance. The
dried stuff is musty/dusty smelling. The fresh stuff smells
like a mint.
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott
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