If you're a cat owner, having a small bag of green powder in your home means something very different from what most people would think. It's that magical dust that turns domestic felines into wild jungle cats as soon as they get a whiff of it, and melts them into a motionless puddle of fluff if they lick it up. Enter the wondrous world of catnip, and the stoned kitties who can't get enough of it.
The name 'catnip' is derived from nepeta cataria, an herb closely related to mint. The plant, whether freshly grown or dried for commercial purposes, secretes a chemical compound called nepetalactone that triggers a response from cats' pheromone receptors - in other words, it makes them lose their minds when they smell it. When the plant is ingested, it produces the opposite effect by sedating the cat. Each feline reacts differently to the magical herb, with some showing outright immunity to its powers. Others, however...
Check out a list of cats who went on a serious 'nip trip' below, and just wish that you were on their level of ecstasy right now.
#4 Our Cat Gets High On Catnip, Then Sits On The Couch And Watches Family Guy For Hours. I Walked In On Her Like This
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#7 So I Put Some Catnip In Our Food Dehydrator And Came To Find This
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#9 Just My Cat Enjoying Some Catnip In The Sun. He Was Seriously Sleeping Like This
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#13 Woke Up To This Disaster This Morning And Now The Cat Is High As Shit. I Ain't Even Mad
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#16 Chewy Found Where The Catnip Was Being Grown. This Is Him Sitting In The Planter High As Heck
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#18 My Kitten Found The Catnip Drawer And Immediately Had An Existential Crisis
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#19 While We Were Out, My Cat Wesley Found The Catnip Bag, Ripped It Open, And This Is What We Returned To
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