Comments on: Cats in mourning

By: Fleur Reynolds

Fleur Reynolds — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:24:40 +0000

How are you able to grow catnip in your garden with cats? I planted a fairly large (3 foot high) mature bush late in the afternoon and by morning only the roots were left! Every stem, leaf and above ground evidence of the plant vanished overnight. I also had one very drunk old tom cat for a day. The males seem more enamored with catnip than the female kitties.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:44:03 +0000

I have a catnip story. We have two 5-year old male cats and one 7-month old female cat. We also have frequent visits by two marauding neighbor cats. Anyway, last night around midnight, we were woken by cats arguing ferociosly and pounding frantically back and forth on our roof. (We have a two-story home with a tile roof.) At one point, my husband could hear one in the gutter and the ensuing yowling made him believe that someone had fallen off the roof. Well, I got up and let the cats in this a.m. and looked outside to see that all of my catnip potted plant had been chewed to stubs. In fact, as I watched, my cat, Sonny, wandered over to the stubs to chew whatever else he could off of it.

Appears that there was a wild neighborhood party on our roof last night!!

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:27:52 +0000

Catnip plants can be purchased at Garden Supply Stores and/or plant nurseries. They generally keep catnip in the section where they have herbs. I usually plant about 4-6 plants in a corner of my garden to keep the neighborhood cats busy and out of my hair (what hair I have left!).

By: big john

big john — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:04:21 +0000

plz let me know were i can get some catnip or find it. it seeem i have the same pproblem.

By: Mousie Zavala

Mousie Zavala — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:28:53 +0000

You WHAT???!!?
Cruel and unsual punishment,I say!
I’d say that you should get a HUGE BAG of catnip and just…spread the love…
As I write this, I am on a farm in Idaho, way past the boondocks, and totally past the sticks.
I miss the mockingbirds (though my chickens make some pretty funny sounds themselves(no, I don’t kill them, they live on old-age pensions until they die, peacefully, in their sleep) and I seriously miss GOOD FOOD (though we did just get Fuddruckers!)…
But we now have sheep, and chickens, and ducks…
And people dump their cats here.
Sigh.
We save them when we can, and it hurts when we can’t save everyone.
But we have 35 acres, and people here think nothing of taking cats they have OWNED and throwing them out.
Maybe sometime soon I will tell you about DaDa cat…who almost died, and who later became the most wondeful blubby lovey cat. It took a month or so of retraining for him to realise that I loved him enough to take care of him.
Anyway, hello from Windy,COLD,Idaho!
AND GET THAT CATNIP BACK!
mousie