Well, that is the question around this house right now. A yellow Nip Nana arrived a few days ago and I sort of toy around with it, very sporadically, whatever that means, and of course I have my rather imposing Nip Cigar, which I also toss around from time to time, but I do NOT hang out with these guys for hours on end.
Unlike what I do with mama and papa. Maybe it is THEY who make me look wee-wah, haha.
SO–the question to you, dear amis, is this: Is it the nip that makes me look (to papa and sometimes mama) sort of off in another world, eyes half-open or perhaps staring at who knows what, or is that just one’s mood that comes over one, and one simply has to space out for a few hours looking stoned?
You see, mama and papa debate this, and mama is really trying to be objective about me (not easy) and I, for one, KNOW that she reads a lot about how to maintain my precious health, but she was also a 60s-70s child (flowers in hair, tie-dyed tees, you get the picture) and does not feel that nippy things, in moderation, really harm one’s being.
Mama says, Maybe, Loulou, you are just in a sort of winter/slowing down/glassy-eyed mood today (and it usually passes) but papa says, Maybe, Loulou, you need to lay off the nip for a couple of days for observation and evaluation.
Mama is fine with that and has…er…gently confiscated my nippy things and put them somewhere out of my sight in hopes they will be out of my mind, haha. Bonne chance!
SHE DID WHAT?
So we’ll see. To nip or not to nip will be resolved one way or another and perhaps my FRIENDS out there can HELP settle this dispute, heh, heh.
Mama DID once make a home-grown nip mouse for her friend’s kitty, Lena, and her friend said that she had to practically chain Lena up so she would not tear apart the drawer where mama’s friend had hidden the mousey.
SO I guess you could say mama is sort of a pusher, whatever that is.
OH, NO, Is she going to jail???
(Just don’t take my Nanna or Cigar, okay?)
I don’t seem to even smell the nip or silvervine sticks. They are all just toys to me and none are better than another and they don’t zone me out at all. I am not even one years old yet, but I am getting close. So maybe I am too young? I kinda want to feel that feeling, ya know? But right now it’s just not happening.
Hey, it will come, trust me. Maybe around 2 or 3? Or if your mama plants the REAL MAGILLA.
Oh my. Those expressions are priceless – and tell a LOT. And, your nip sounds mighty fine – but does it give you the munchies!? Hey, we all have our vices. Mine is food.
Well, I understand the food vice for sure, so mine must be snuggles. And friends like you, Mya.
So your mama is a pusher. Interesting. You’ll have to keep a good eye on her. If only to see where she hides your nip. 🙂
Uh, oh, there’s a guy in a police suit at the door. Mama just went out the back.
There is no such thing as too much nip 🙂 Have you tried silvervine? Even better than nip.
Wow, what a pretty name. Will look that up. Is that like Acapulco Gold or Maui Meow, haha?
Kitties react differently to nip (or Valerian or – I forget the third thing that sets them off) I have also read that oregano (available in Mama’s spice cupboard ?) blisses some kitties out. Some kitties don’t react to catnip at all. Kittens don’t either til they reach a certain age (again I forget what). But everything I have read indicates that catnip is not harmful. Most cats get over it in 15 or 20 minutes – sort of sleep it off. Mama’s friend’s kitty probably was just at one end of the continuum. My Lulu has a catnip dynamite stick that I keep in a coffee jar with some dried nip to freshen it. She goes nuts, pouncing and biting (the nip – not me unless I try to take it away from her ) but after a few minutes she sort of falls asleep. So I don’t think you are any weirder than anybody else. See how Papa reacts if you suggest he give up wine for a few days .
Well, we laughed over that one. But the debate is still on over whether it’s good for me to space out too much. I think I’ll consult my Mojo kitty book…but I’m with you. Roll around, do fun things and then zzzzz.