My strange little cat, Tara, doesn’t like catnip. But she loves valerian root. I never knew until she came along that some cats like that. I saw it mentioned on a humane society site and decided to try it — based on her love of dirty socks, which smell about the same. She goes nuts over it. Valerian root is the one thing she’ll sit up and beg for. Catnip? She reacts to that about the same way some kids react to vegetables. It’s just not for her. But she has learned the sound of someone opening the cabinet and bottle that hold the valerian root. She can be in an entirely different part of the house, but as soon as I reach for that bottle she materializes beside me.
Thanks to Sarah for the post prompt.
News to me too. I’ve had cats who are crazed for catnip and others who are totally indifferent to it. One place I lived the catnip that grew around the edges of the yard in spots was always well chewed.
Never thought, that in some countries don`t know about cats love to the valerian
In Russia everybody knows about this
Cats like valerian root!!
My cat is the same. No catnip. funny about that.
The Valerian patch was always inhabited by my Cat, when I still had him. But he loved Catnip as well…I always knew when he had overdone it, as he would react in a hilarious way!