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07-06-2009, 07:02 PM   #11

Re: Valerian and cats


Hello!!!
Warning - don't let the dried root get in contact with the cat as poisonous!!
Valerian that is... now catnip... All those who have tried Catnip there is a vast difference in types of catnip! Teabags are good as is dried, good quality catnip, Koogarama (in a green pump action spray btl) is not very good, Johnsons are better but still I have found sprays weaker than the other!!

As I have mentioned before RigbyBigBear doesn't respond to ANY catnip but loves his Valerian...personally I think it smells more like cat wee but each to their own hey!!?
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07-06-2009, 08:03 PM   #12

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Has anyone tried drying her own catnip?
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07-06-2009, 08:05 PM   #13

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Hello!!!
Warning - don't let the dried root get in contact with the cat as poisonous!!
Valerian that is... now catnip... All those who have tried Catnip there is a vast difference in types of catnip! Teabags are good as is dried, good quality catnip, Koogarama (in a green pump action spray btl) is not very good, Johnsons are better but still I have found sprays weaker than the other!!

As I have mentioned before RigbyBigBear doesn't respond to ANY catnip but loves his Valerian...personally I think it smells more like cat wee but each to their own hey!!?
Don't know if you saw my thread about Leia and the valerian , MCL ...... she was as unresponsive to it as to catnip...



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07-06-2009, 08:14 PM   #14

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Did you try different sorts of catnip DM?
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07-06-2009, 08:44 PM   #15

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Did you try different sorts of catnip DM?
Yes, I've tried the pricy ones at Petsmart, as well as the cheap ones from the market, and of course my fresh home grown. I might as well offer her some dried oregano for all the reaction. The balls came in a plastic bag of valerian leaves, not roots. Apparently she doesn't have the reactive gene; most of my others over the years got really silly with catnip ...
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07-06-2009, 09:00 PM   #16

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Ummmm... very unusual!!

Maybe your last chance saloon should be the Dried Valerian root???? And put some of their fav soft things in it? Mine have soft balls, fluffies (somekind of coloured fur type things - best we not ask what!!) and also small cuddley toys, ickle tiny ones!!! Or if they have a fav pillow store that in the dried root... it is much stronger than the leaves!!
Good luck!!! it's soooooo funny.... watching my gigantic dominant male roll around like a big fluffy wiggly worm!!!



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07-06-2009, 09:56 PM   #17

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This is Leia playing with one of the balls ....
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07-06-2009, 10:31 PM   #18

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Excellant!!! Will have to get my photos loaded onto laptop of my Feline Tribe.... sooooo funny!
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07-06-2009, 10:53 PM   #19

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Oh please do! We LOVE pics!!
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08-06-2009, 12:46 PM   #20

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Oh yes, seconded! Nothing better than pictures of cats IMO!!!

(unless it's the cats themselves, of course!)
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