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Catnip effect?
Hi, all,
A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. TIA, Chakolate -- On sadness: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or to frowst with a book by the fire, But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And to dig till you gently perspire. --Rudyard Kipling |
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Chakolate wrote: Hi, all, A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. Hmmmm. I'm harking back to times in my college days when I'd hide in my room, paranoid and stoned out of my gourd. Otherwise, I'm of no help to you at all, I'm afraid! Mine don't get catnip that often. Priscilla |
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Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another
ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon "Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message ... In article , Chakolate wrote: Hi, all, A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. Hmmmm. I'm harking back to times in my college days when I'd hide in my room, paranoid and stoned out of my gourd. Otherwise, I'm of no help to you at all, I'm afraid! Mine don't get catnip that often. Priscilla |
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"Cathy Friedmann" wrote: Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Yes, I did notice the constellation of thread participants myself. :-) Priscilla |
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I thought the same thing when I read the reply: "Oops, I meant to post to a
cat group". :-) "Cathy Friedmann" wrote in : Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon "Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message ... In article , Chakolate wrote: Hi, all, A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. Hmmmm. I'm harking back to times in my college days when I'd hide in my room, paranoid and stoned out of my gourd. Otherwise, I'm of no help to you at all, I'm afraid! Mine don't get catnip that often. Priscilla Chakolate -- On sadness: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or to frowst with a book by the fire, But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And to dig till you gently perspire. --Rudyard Kipling |
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In article ,
"Cathy Friedmann" wrote: Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Yes, I did notice the constellation of thread participants myself. :-) Priscilla |
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I thought the same thing when I read the reply: "Oops, I meant to post to a
cat group". :-) "Cathy Friedmann" wrote in : Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon "Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message ... In article , Chakolate wrote: Hi, all, A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. Hmmmm. I'm harking back to times in my college days when I'd hide in my room, paranoid and stoned out of my gourd. Otherwise, I'm of no help to you at all, I'm afraid! Mine don't get catnip that often. Priscilla Chakolate -- On sadness: The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or to frowst with a book by the fire, But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And to dig till you gently perspire. --Rudyard Kipling |
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Do you know, when replying to Chakolate's post, I thought I was in another
ng, w/ an OT post?! Then your reply reinforced that feeling. ;-) Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon "Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message ... In article , Chakolate wrote: Hi, all, A quick question if you don't mind. I give my cats quite a bit of catnip, both fresh and dried. A few weeks ago, some workmen started sandblasting the house next door, and one of my cats, Pi, got very spooked. He hid all day while they were there, making noise with the machines and shouting. A months after they had finished, he was still very easily spooked. Even the little girl who comes to visit scared him. Since her first act on visiting is always to give the cats treats, they love her and usually come running. It occurred to me that the catnip may have been exaggerating his paranoia, so I stopped it for a while. He became, slowly, his old self again. He also dropped the extra pound he'd been carrying around. As a test, I gave him more catnip last night, and he's been hiding all day. Okay, well I guess that wasn't all that quick, :-) , but here's the question: Has anybody else observed this sort of behavior? Is it really the catnip? My other cat hasn't changed a bit, with or without the catnip. Hmmmm. I'm harking back to times in my college days when I'd hide in my room, paranoid and stoned out of my gourd. Otherwise, I'm of no help to you at all, I'm afraid! Mine don't get catnip that often. Priscilla |
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