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As the Christmas season gets underway thoughts turn to buying gifts for the entire family. For some, companion animals are on the gift list, particularly cats and dogs who share our homes and hearts.

When you’re watching your cat play with some catnip you sprinkled on the floor, it’s pretty common to wonder, "does catnip get cats high?”. After all, the way cats roll around and act silly looks just ...

My colleague has had to start hiding her “sleepy tea” teabags from her pets when she found out they contain catnip. “I have to fight my cats to get through a cup,” she told me, revealing that her ...

If you have ever watched your cat roll around in a blissful daze after a whiff of catnip, you are not alone. Catnip has long fascinated pet owners for its strange, almost magical effect on felines.

Your cat probably knows it as Catnip or Catmint. But the stuff that drives your kitten crazy goes by the Latin name Nepeta cataria, and it's a member of the genus Nepeta (derived from Nepete, the ...

Cats have funny reactions to catnip as some roll on the floor and others run around like they are wild. Catnip is no magic but just a natural herb which changes the cat's behaviour for a short period ...

Many of us can spend hours watching cats experience catnip for the first time. I know I can. From chaotic rolling around or spinning in circles to zenning out in the corner- cats' reactions to catnip ...

Ally and her boyfriend were so kind for this. You can see it in the way he plays with the toy that he's totally over the moon ...