Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Ever See a Cat High on Catnip? It's Bad News!


Oh my word, one of the funniest and oddest things I have ever seen is going on in my place right this minute. We have two cats, Elvis and Daisy May. They are pretty peaceful, laid back, and prefer to sleep most of the time. I don't know a whole lot about cats, so I am lucky they are low maintenance. They are brother and sister, two years old, and I have always thought they seemed pretty normal, nothing out of the ordinary, like say, a drug problem...or so I thought.

I was at the pet store today and bought a cardboard scratch board type of thing. I brought it home, took it out of the box and left it on the floor and went about my day. Normal enough, until Elvis, the boy cat, started sniffing around. I swear, if cats could smile, he was smilling from ear to ear. He put his nose up to the cardboard and wouldn't move, like his nose was glued to it or something.

The girl, Daisy May, was over near the outer box trying to rip it apart. What the??? What is up with the cats? They rarely move and now they are both acting like crazies. I took the outer box from Daisy May and inside was a little baggie containing some dried green leaves. It reminded me of the bags of marijuana that the police take from the bad guys on the show Cops. I re-read the box the cardboard came in and it said it contained one bag of "Catnip".

I had never seen Catnip and actually thought it was something that was made up; however, my cats knew what it was. They were acting like junkies trying to get high. I swear, they were smellin', lickin', and eatin' the cardboard thing. Geeze, hand them a lighter and I bet they would have smoked it. I mean it, they were trying to eat the cardboard to get to the catnip, or the smell, as that must have leaked onto the cardboard. Daisy May put her nose up to the board for another hit, er, smell, and Elvis full on smacked her on the head as if to tell her it was his stash and to go get her own. They were ready to fight over sniffing the cardboard. What happened to my sweet, mellow cats? They were fighting over a hit off the cardboard.

Even now, as we are about to go to bed, Elvis is sleeping on the drug laced, er, catnip laced board. Every time Daisy May goes near him, he hisses, and I swear, he about makes a fist giving her a warning that it is his cardboard. If he had a knife, I swear he would pull it on her. Good thing cats can't have guns. I am beginning to think he is an addict. If he starts following his paws around in the air seeing tracers, I am taking that cardboard back.

I think I am going to take them to Narcotics Anonymous tomorrow as they need to get clean. This stuff is bad news. Ever see a cat's brain on catnip? It is just like that commercial with the fried egg. Bad news.
(c)2007 Cindy Breninger. All Rights Reserved.

6 comments:

Jeff said...

As Bob Dylan once wrote: "Everybody must get stoned"
I have seen cats going mad on all sorts of things, but still to this day the funniest thing I ever saw was after a huge party we woke up in the morning and there were like 10 of the neighborhood cats all lapping up beer from all the left over glasses, ever seen 10 drunk cats try to flee, super funny!

Elise said...

My cat loves catnip too. She gets so happy. She rubs her body on everything and anything and purrs like a motor. She only gets a sniff some on special occasions though... I don't want her to be a complete junkie!

Moooooog35 said...

Just wait...

..pretty soon, they'll be into your bags of Doritos and boxes of Ding Dongs. You'll come home, and they'll be laying around playing Guitar Hero 3 on Xbox eating 3-day-old pizza.

Cat munchies are the worst.

Blue said...

Hey, that's cheap entertainment. And it's not like you're giving them a controlled substance. Catnip is natural.

Kat Mortensen said...

Oh yeah! Cats on nip-that's pretty common around this house. Ours are junkies...hooded eyes, staggering around, standing looking at that space on the ceiling where the poltergeists reside. We've got four felines and if I buy catnip as soon as I come in the door they start rummaging in my purse. Try putting it in a sock and tying off the ankle. They will go mad!

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Michelle Hix said...

I'll have to send you a pic of my cats...Sharky and JoJo. They are the same type cats you have...weird...we seem to have a lot in common...