[Sca-cooks] period mention or use of catnip?

[Sue Clemenger]

It could very well have been catnip.  I had two separate pots of it 
going this year.  The hanging pot was a surprise re-seeding from last 
year's plant, and *completely* skunky-nasty smelling (oddly, the parent 
plant hadn't been that potent).  The other pot was much more minty 
smelling.  My male cat, Mac, goes excessively nuts over the skanky 
stuff, and vastly prefers it over "normal" catnip, although he'll deign 
to eat that as well.
My 3 girls (Sofi, Aurora and Curye) all prefer the milder stuff. 
Although they all guard their "shares" rather zealously, they do react 
to it differently.  Sofi tends to sit on her little pile, and turn into 
a striped Buddha, while Aurora and Curye and Mac tend to eat most of it, 
roll around in the remains, and then sort of go to sleep.  Nobody gets 
excessively frisky unless I'm teasing them with a bit of fresh stuff.
--maire, who always thought of it as "kitty quaaludes" ;o)

Dianne & Greg Stucki wrote:


> We always called it "kitty marijuana".
> I had some stuff growing in front of my house when I was a teenager that 
> produced a similar effect on my cats. I don't believe it was actual 
> catnip (though this was twenty-five years ago). It was very small and 
> low-growing, with fleshy, hairy leaves and an almost skunky smell. 
> Anyone know what it might have been?
> 
> Laurensa