Mondays With Merlin: Catnip Magic
Did you know there are 250 species of the cat mint family which includes catnip? My mouth is beginning to drool at the very thought. In the summer, us Cat Wisdom 101 boys like nothing better than a roll in the herb garden au naturel as the French say. The most magical of the happy herbs is catnip but alas, we did not have a good harvest. Odin wondered: Where oh where did our catnip go?
Nope, no catnip there but is that eau de mousie?
Domino and Odin thought the post man might show up. The catnip gods must have heard and oh my whiskers, we had a special delivery from our friends in Michigan. Yes, there is a catnip god and their name is Cherry City Kitties. Their mom, Carolyn kindly send us a big stash of their finest catnip/catmint. Purrs of thanks. It’s good to have friends in high places.
Speaking of friends in high places, we are inviting everyone to our Twitter chat party we’re co-hosting with ASPCA this Friday, Nov. 21, 3-4pm ET to promote senior pet adoption. There will be prizes. If you’re not on Twitter, share anyway to get the message out. If you’re on Facebook but not Twitter you can still use the hashtag #SeniorPets.
20 Comments
Sue Brandes
Catnip is always good. For some reason I am missing most of your posts through my email. Tried signing up again. Hope that will do it.
The Swiss Cats
What a wonderful gift ! We’re sure you’ll enjoy it ! Purrs
Katnip Lounge
We agree about the nip…we LOVE it!
maggie
Lovely Fall pictures and what a nice gift! I brought some fresh nip to the shelter last week but stayed in the room to monitor the party. You never know what effect the nip will have. Fortunately everyone behaved and no brawls broke out.
Flynn
What a great gift. Mum grew me some seeds a few years ago but it was catmint and not catnip. She blamed the garden centre for selling her the wrong seeds. I am not interested in the mint, but the butterflies love the purple flowers so she lets it keep growing.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Most cats aren’t keen on catmint or mint but some are. The flowers are bonus and edible.
meowmeowmans
Oh, those Cherry City Kitties are awesome, aren’t they? They’re our honorary family, and their catnip is pretty powerful stuff. 🙂
Hugs!
Sometimes Cats Herd You
What a wonderful gift. You’ll be enjoying that, for sure.
Brian Frum
Nip is always a wonderful thing!
Austin Towers
Has Mom Layla been on the nip or has Domino got a twin called Domino? It looks like Odin to us !! MOL 😉
What a lovely gift to receive !!
Crepes
We had nip and mint this year! I ignored the mint but loved the nip. momFOD was annoyed, she since had 3 times the Mint. Enjoy your stash! – Crepes.
Skeeter and Izzy
What a very thoughtful gift guys!!! We are sure glad that you have such great friends!!! Happy nipping!
Luvs,
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo >^..^<
Angel AbbyGrace
Wow we could think of nothing better! We will share this on Twitter!
Tamago
What a wonderful gift you got! Enjoy the catnip/catmint!
da tabbies o trout towne
doodz…way awesum gift for sure; total awesum oh de cherry city crew ta send ya !! ♥
The Island Cats
All our nip is gone too…though the mom says she brought some in to dry. We haven’t seen it yet, though.
Cherry City Kitties
Enjoy boys! We thought we heard some purring in the wind!
Love from your Michigan Pals!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks a bunch! The dreary November days just got brighter.
Summer
So far I have only had fresh catnip once (courtesy of the nice Katnip Lounge human). Maybe our garden will be better next year!
Hannah and Lucy
Wow the purrfect gift – a load of nip woo hoo.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx