disnut8
January 13th, 2007, 08:00 AM
I had to share this. Rich's co-worker was given a bunch of carpet samples as a "gift". She didn't want them and was going to throw them out. I asked Rich to bring them home for the cats. Some were useable but one was a long narrow piece of carpet, crookedly cut and about five feet long. One cat, Gus, took to using it as a horizontal scratching post. None of the five cats has front claws but he loved moving his little front feet on it.
Last night, I was downstairs reading and Rich was upstairs getting ready for bed. Gus did his little scratching thing. I thought "hey, he's been pretty good lately, maybe he'd like a treat". No other cats were around, preferring Rich's nighttime ritual to mine. We have a container of catnip in the fridge so I got that out (we don't use it much - five cats and catnip?) and sprinkled the piece of carpet with it. What happened in the next fifteen minutes was THE most hilarious thing I have ever watched in my life!
As soon as the sound of the sprinkling started, Meeko and Todd joined Gus. Each one took a section of the carpet and rubbed it, rolled it, probably made love to it, licked it, protected it, stroked it. I know everyone has seen cats on catnip but three of them at once with this one piece of carpet was too much. I couldn't take a picture because Rich (who witnessed this for a bit) was in bed and sleeping.
Then the funny thing was when Nemo joined the other three. He could not get a piece of the carpet. Todd, Gus and Meeko wouldn't move at all. I had sprinkled some catnip on the the pieces of carpet samples where we are attempting to make a kitty condo. I picked Nemo up and put him on another piece of carpeting. Now I had four cats doing the Catnip Dance. (Belle stayed upstairs with her father).
A long time later, some very contented kitties settled down for the night. That might have been the only night that we didn't have a hissy fit from one of them. I think I'm onto something here!
Last night, I was downstairs reading and Rich was upstairs getting ready for bed. Gus did his little scratching thing. I thought "hey, he's been pretty good lately, maybe he'd like a treat". No other cats were around, preferring Rich's nighttime ritual to mine. We have a container of catnip in the fridge so I got that out (we don't use it much - five cats and catnip?) and sprinkled the piece of carpet with it. What happened in the next fifteen minutes was THE most hilarious thing I have ever watched in my life!
As soon as the sound of the sprinkling started, Meeko and Todd joined Gus. Each one took a section of the carpet and rubbed it, rolled it, probably made love to it, licked it, protected it, stroked it. I know everyone has seen cats on catnip but three of them at once with this one piece of carpet was too much. I couldn't take a picture because Rich (who witnessed this for a bit) was in bed and sleeping.
Then the funny thing was when Nemo joined the other three. He could not get a piece of the carpet. Todd, Gus and Meeko wouldn't move at all. I had sprinkled some catnip on the the pieces of carpet samples where we are attempting to make a kitty condo. I picked Nemo up and put him on another piece of carpeting. Now I had four cats doing the Catnip Dance. (Belle stayed upstairs with her father).
A long time later, some very contented kitties settled down for the night. That might have been the only night that we didn't have a hissy fit from one of them. I think I'm onto something here!