Will a nuetered cat respond to catnip differently than a non-nuetered cat?
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at
4:36 pm
My male cat has been "fixed",and does not respond to catnip at all.
Filed under: Catnip
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I’ve been in a cat household most of my life. My conclusion is that some cats like to get stoned off their butt, and some don’t. I have some great snapshots of my cat Tango lying flat on his back with his big assed white belly pointing straight up clutching a sprig of fresh grown catnip, eyes glazed. I am SO jealous.
My female cat never responded to it either. I think that cat nip doesnt affect 20% of cats.
I don’t know, but I don’t think catnip is as strong as people think it is. My grandma’s one cat LOVED it (but she had cerebral palsy cat and couldn’t walk a strait line) the other liked it a little, and none of the seven cats I’ve had in my lifetime have ever cared for it. Maybe they needed to be exposed as kittens? Or they were exposed too early and grew immune to it?
My neutered male cat actually urinated on his catnip when i put it in his bed. I had to throw out his bed and never bought him catnip again .
I’ve given my male cat before he got fixed, and he’s had it after getting fixed and his response hasn’t changed at all.
Some cats like catnip, while others just don’t.. So I doubt getting nuetered has anything to do with it.
Hi, reacting to catnip or not is a genetic thing, so being neutered wouldn’t have affected him – he was born that way. While 90% of cats like catnip, about 10% lack the gene necessary to detect the stimulant in it.
If the parents did not respond to catnip, their kittens won’t either.