An immunity to catnip?
Oct 16 '00
Okay, I was a new cat owner. What I new about cats I had picked up tangentially from friends who were cat owners and from common knowledge. One of the things that was common knowledge was that "cats like catnip."
So as a new cat owner, I would occasionally get a little catnip for my cat. When I tried getting him into his scratching post, I would rub catnip all over it. But the reaction he had to it was considerably milder and lower-key than what other people TOLD me it should be. He got slightly interested, but not any more so than he did whenever I gave him a new toy of any kind. At times he would just plain seem to ignore it, in fact.
A pet store owner finally claimed that in cats, the tendency to get silly over catnip is actually a GENETIC thing, and there is a certain percentage of cats WITHOUT that gene, so they just don't react.
I haven't been able to get any official confirmation of this from a vet, but whether it is genetic or no, my cat just plain has a high tolerance for its effects. All the more reason to bear in mind that one's own cat is an individual, and won't necessarily respond to things in the same way as any other cat.
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