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TIL I learned about the "catnip gene"
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Our cat doesn't respond to catnip but she does respond to silvervine!
I don't think it's the classic catnip response (which I assume is because of her genes) but she gets more playful and her pupils enlarge... for a few minutes and then she just wants to take a nap ๐