I discovered that my cat has been trading in her cat toys for catnip. Should I take her to counseling?
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at
7:23 pm
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I think an intervention is in order. I hear catnip is a gateway drug. You don’t want her to go any further – there’s nothing worse than a cat on crack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJcjpE1nsA8&feature=related
Right away, she’ll soon start to steal your money for the "goods"
Ask her what she’s gonna do when she runs out of toys, cause you ain’t givin’ her no money for drugs. You refuse to support her habit. Maybe she’ll get clean.
oh my. lock her up in a sober house and don’t let her out until she admits and stops using.
At this stage, just make sure she doesn’t have access to your eBay account or PayPal. At least not until her trades get real good.
You could just make it easier for her to get supplies of her catnip.
After all it’s relatively cheap, fairly harmless, (although not if she takes it with tobacco) and makes her happy in a nice way!
At the moment she just wants to get high for a bit of fun, by the time the counselling has done it’s magic, she’ll need to get high just to be able to forget about all the problems that the counselling has revealed…
It depends on your view of the subject. Are you all for unregulated catnip growing and trading? Against? No opinion? Since it is non-regulated when humans grow it, you can simply offer to grow her own supply so she can keep her toys. That way she doesn’t get busted for possession and you can use it as an allowance, rewarding her for doing all her chores. If she a teenager this may be her way of rebelling, and by offering to help, it will lose it’s appeal. If she has gone on to college, this could keep her from getting it from untrustworthy dealers, who made lace it with such deadly toxins as Iams Large Breed, or H2O, know to be lethal when felines get it on their skin. Overall, it depends on how you view catnip, as a dangerous illegal substance, or simply another part of cat culture.
Yo, duuuude, you gotta understand. I can quit anytime I want. I just use it medicinally anyways. It’s just for my nerves, when I’m in a room full of rocking chairs. Atleast I’m not all hyped up On Coca-Cola like the dog.