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Petting or catnip: Curly's delima
Catnip grows wild in several places on my property - descendents of a
feral plant given to me several years ago. One is growing in an abandoned flower pot that I mived into the sun from under the patio awning - it looked beautiful today, so I broke of a piece and put it on the front porch. Curly came running and jumped on the porch as he usually does when I get home ... and ran straight into the catnip. Stop. Sniff. Take a step towerd me and get a quick head scritch. Back to the nip. Back and forth; back and forth; back and forth. Then CJ came along and solved his delima: he flopped down on the catnip and started rolling in it. Curly settled for a lot more petting (my hands smelled of catnip since I crushed the stuff in them). I checked another plant that was growing under the awning: it was in flower, and had very stiff stems. I broke off the top and took it inside. This is *powerful* stuff - it brought cats from all over the house. It was too strong for some of them, but eventually Avery took possesion of it. It moved around, appearing and disappearing for several hours. -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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Petting or catnip: Curly's delima
Ted Davis wrote:
I checked another plant that was growing under the awning: it was in flower, and had very stiff stems. I broke off the top and took it inside. This is *powerful* stuff - it brought cats from all over the house. It was too strong for some of them, but eventually Avery took possesion of it. It moved around, appearing and disappearing for several hours. My problem is Muddy can't resist fresh catnip, even when the shoots have barely made it above ground level, it's real hard on the catnip plant. When he's not eating it to within an inch of its life he sleeps on it ;-) -- Nik Simpson |
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Petting or catnip: Curly's delima
"nik Simpson" wrote in message ... Ted Davis wrote: I checked another plant that was growing under the awning: it was in flower, and had very stiff stems. I broke off the top and took it inside. This is *powerful* stuff - it brought cats from all over the house. It was too strong for some of them, but eventually Avery took possesion of it. It moved around, appearing and disappearing for several hours. My problem is Muddy can't resist fresh catnip, even when the shoots have barely made it above ground level, it's real hard on the catnip plant. When he's not eating it to within an inch of its life he sleeps on it ;-) -- Nik Simpson I have temporarily solved this catnip dilemma. It is so hot here this week that my potted plants were taking a beating. So this afternoon I put several inches of water in a plastic kiddie pool and set the pots in there to soak up what they will. That'll keep Jake off the catnip pot for a few days. It has a moat. Jo |
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Petting or catnip: Curly's delima
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:24:20 -0500, nik Simpson wrote:
My problem is Muddy can't resist fresh catnip, even when the shoots have barely made it above ground level, it's real hard on the catnip plant. When he's not eating it to within an inch of its life he sleeps on it ;-) Normally, they don't bother the plant until it becomes damages in some way so that the odor gets out. Of course, a cat can easily damage the plant in the normal course of their activities. Once damaged, it can be all over for the plant. -- T.E.D. ) |
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