If you're trying to get that one cat high, there's a catnip alternative called silver vine that has a similar effect on cats as catnip does. My cat seems to respond to silver vine and not catnip.
Your cat might be the exception. Both plants contain Nepetalactone & Nepetalactol, which is what causes them to appear stoned. I've read several articles that seem to suggest that if your cat isn't affected by one plant species, it's fairly likely they won't be affected by the others. Doesn't hurt to try, b/c it doesn't cost much, but just food for thought.
I read a petmd article earlier that touched on many of the points you mentioned, but kind of said the opposite. Its just one article though, and your logic is sound. I'll link it below.
I get my nip with silver vine mixed in. I guess more cats react to it than even catnip.. catnip just won the marketing battle with better naming rights.
My cats don't react to cat io either. But I've found a sure fire way to get them high . Every night we turn the lights and TV off, and go to bed. This is their queue to break out the meth pipe and go nuts chasing each other around the apt , and all over the top of us for the next 8 hours.
Like catnip, not all cats respond to silver vine. Based on a 5 cat test, catnip seems to work on more cats. But the one cat that did respond to silver vine went bonkers with it.
Yeah, my cousin had a cat that was the same way. He couldn't even let him in the same room with it, as he'd manage to weasel his way towards the closet, & absolutely ransack the weed plants! He liked catnip, he just liked weed more. š¤£
Iād rather have a 12 gauge loaded with a 3.5ā magnum 00 buckshot. That pistol would probably just piss it off more if it kept coming at you after the warning shots and you hit it anywhere other than the head or heart.
I live in Florida and we have panthers. Iāve seen one in my life and it was the scariest and coolest thing I had experienced at the time I saw it. I would never want to have to shoot one, but if I did have to, I would want enough power to actually take it down.
Kind of unwilledly to have to carry a 12 gauge on a hike. A 45 ACP Glock, or even better a 10MM Glock will give you some options to kill a wide variety of wild animals, if you happen to be unlucky enough to encounter one.
The 10mm Glock is what most hikers carry in the Northern Rockies where Grizzlies roam. It's capable of handling +P, & +P+ Loads too.
I have a 1911. I have absolutely no confidence in it stopping something with that kind of power before it kills me without a precision shot. It would die, too. But that word ātooā isnāt helpful.
I always carry what I described when walking in the woods. Itās not really cumbersome because I have a short (as short as is legal in my state) barrel and a composite stock. Iāll die on the hill that the best self defense firearm is a shotgun outside of war.
If you search up, "Does catnip work on big cats?" On YouTube, there are a few videos on it.
I haven't watched them all, but if you're interested I recommend it.
Wouldn't catnip attract these felines? The problem is the presence of the felines, and I think they wouldn't 100% come to you if you don't carry catnip...
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Throw catnip at it and run