CATS OVER COFFEE/HIGH ON CATNIP!

 "Sweetheart, what is it about catnip that makes Yum Yum so crazy?"

FIRST CUP OF COFFEE

Leonard Cohen, the great poet of the soul, once gave a litany of all the drugs he had used and experimented on over the years in searching for the elixir of love and freedom from a tormented mind. It was quite a list and included Prozac along with a bunch of others to fill the cabinet of a highly creative seeker of life's mysteries. After years of experimentation he poetically announced, "There ain't no cure for love." Life distilled is "dum, dee, dum, dee, dum."

Now our cats don't get quite the selection of Cohen. 

They get catnip. It is our choice for them and quite benign. It just has the pleasant effect of making some of them go crazy. Not all. You see some cats could care less about catnip. Kind of like a person who tries marijuana and says it has no effect on them. "I tried it once and don't see what all the hype is about..." With many of these people you never really know the truth because frankly some of them were pretty weird acting to begin with. So who to know?

But as for Yum Yum, she loves catnip.

She is content that out in our Arizona room in a nice big tin is her stash of daily heaven. She doesn't care about the technical name Nepetalactone. To her it is just a minty dose of pick me up.

Yum Yum likes to enjoy it in several ways. She licks it. She sniffs it. After awhile she rolls in it and just totally mellows out. Mellow yellow and then some!

When she sniffed her first catnip her eyes got more squinty than usual an she shot into the living room and then ran back for more. "This is top grade stuff," she seemed to say.

As for my wife and I we got to be observers of some unusual changes of behavior. A couple of fluffy mouse balls that lay normally dormant and of no interest suddenly became objects of attack. They got swatted to and fro until hidden under a couch. Then the stalking began. Paw in, paw out, trying to get the fluffy rascals.

My wife and I soon realized this was not the time for petting Yum Yum unless you wanted to play mouse hand with her. We got the point that there is a big difference between a cat's "love bite" as opposed to "mouse bite."

After some frolicking the end of the cat nip sessions was most often the same.

A long, contented cat nap. Sweet dreams, no doubt.

Cool dude Yum Yum!