Well, what did you expect to see here? My human is too lame to grow silver vine, but catnip thrives with neglect, apparently.
We didn’t have time for an actual nip party this week (just a lot of box treats), but my human found some outtakes from a nip party we had in July, 2012. (Don’t worry, we’ve had lots of nip parties since then.) Here are Binga and I debating ownership of this pile of fresh catnip.
Here I am, taking in an intoxicating whiff. This is good stuff!
Binga is taking a big bite here… but she’s not exactly eating it. What she’s doing is bruising the leaves so that it releases more of the essential oil nepetalactone so she can get higher. My human learned cats do that when she was working on the Catster story on kitty intoxicants. Now you know too!
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Binga, you are a smart cookie in the world of intoxicants!
We SO agree. this is the ONLY way to observe PhotoHunt: PLANT.
Hmmmm been awhile since my cat has had some catnip. Think I may have to buy him some! Nice photos!
How fun to have homegrown catnip! You are some lucky kitties.
You have a good-sized plant growing there. I have a small plant outside but I don’t respond to nip. I like to go by and smell which other neighbor kitties have visited my plant.
You lucky kitties!
Glogirly can’t grow anything except refrigerator science experiments.
; ) Katie
We are very impressed by the huge pile of nip at your nip party. We’re drooling just thinking about it.
Mmmmmm…fresh nip is the best.
We could have had catnip too, if only Mom planted the darn seeds !
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Treasure,Tiger, JJ and Julie
Do you girls get the munchies after a good ‘Nip session? I hope your Human has excellent snacks to offer after you get high. It’s only polite.
Sounds like something I could grow. My cats would love some fresh catnip. You are so lucky to have one of those.
Y’all sure are lucky to have such a terrific plant!!!
Whoa! I didn’t know that last factoid. I like the nip after it’s been dried. I eat it but don’t roll around in it. I bet we could grow the vine somewhere in the USA.
We wish it were true that catnip thrives with neglect. ‘Cause ours was neglected when our humans were away and now it is toast! We’re going to have to start all over next spring. We think those who have catnip should not complain that they do not have silver vine. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
I love a bit of nip now and then. But not so much as Ichiro and Gemini.
Yummy!!! *slurp* Glad you got the book just fine! Sorry you can’t attend the book launch party, though. Be sure and check out the website afterward, because we’ll be leaving it up for the informational links & videos (and the free poster).
It looks like you two are going to whap each other
Great pile of catnip ! We should remember Mum to plant it in the garden instead of her uninteresting stuff like greens… Purrs
Girls! You gave me a great idea!
nice looking Nip Sparkle,xx Speedy
Alex would always eat plants and get sick so we haven’t had a plant around here in years…
That nip looks lovely.
Great pics too. Especially the second one 🙂
That’s our favorite plant! Great Photo Hunt!
I wish my human had green fingers so we could plant Nip !!
XOXO
your human did a MUCH better job with HER nip than mine did! LOVE, CODY
I wish my human would plant catnip again. But she was told the season to buy a nip plant is spring (of course she is too lazy to grow it herself!).
We have never had fresh catnip, only dried. We are going to have to file a Cat Union grievance about this.
There’s nothing as good as fresh organic catnip!
Nommilious!!
Happy Caturday!
We must have the lamest human on planet earth… all these years she claims to love us and never once has she grown the nip for us… We demand our rights…
We completely obliterated our nip plants this year. Next year mommy is going to hide it until it’s a good size. Happy Caturday!
That is some fine looking nip…I do believe I got a whiff of it all the way over here.
You are all looking very lovely today
Hugs
Madi your bffff
Our Catnip plant seems to survive absolutely everything. The cats chew on it, lie on it and it still keeps right on growing. We don’t get very excited about it here in the house though. Weird. Hope you have a great day.
That looks like a great pile of nip there – we’ll see you later when you’ve come back down to earth! Enjoy.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx