does your cat likes catnip?

i bought my cat this scratcher that uses catnip and he seems to uninterested in it... my mom is finally comfy enough for me to house train my cat.... and now its not going well with anything i bring in the house that has catnip

A friends mom was making these little catnip cushions to sell for charity. LIttle brightly coloured pillows stuffed with catnip. We bought two for our cats to see what happened. The older female sniffed at hers once and then ignored it but the other guy went really weird. He lay down on the floor and held it with his front paws and chewed on it and sucked it until it was completely soaked with drool (yuk). He just would not stop and it was not very nice really. He seemed to have been taken over by it and turned into a kind of junkie. So we put them in the trash.

A friends mom was making these little catnip cushions to sell for charity. LIttle brightly coloured pillows stuffed with catnip. We bought two for our cats to see what happened. The older female sniffed at hers once and then ignored it but the other guy went really weird. He lay down on the floor and held it with his front paws and chewed on it and sucked it until it was completely soaked with drool (yuk). He just would not stop and it was not very nice really. He seemed to have been taken over by it and turned into a kind of junkie. So we put them in the trash.

Hehe!  Your catnip junkie cat was a lot like my now dearly departed Poochie.  I got her a cushion stuffed with catnip as well, but it was in the shape of a very fat cigar.  She also got it covered in drool but also would put it between her back legs and tried to 'disembowel' it.  She loved that thing.  Eventually the smell of the catnip wears off, but she still liked to play with it at that point.

I think it does depend on the cat. My cat loved catnip, but only when it was loose. If we bought pre-made catnip toys, she wasn't interested. She wasn't a very playful cat to begin with, but once we bought some loose catnip and sprinkled a bit on the floor. She would roll around in it for a few minutes and then fall asleep! I think it was a bit more potent that way, and it was great for pacifying her enough to get her into her crate to go to the vet.  

Ours both did when they were younger -- up until age 13 or so.  Now, at age 15, neither gets too excited, but every once in a whole, I'll hear a funny noise and investigate and discover one or the other has dragged out some catnip toys.  When they were spry, they'd go nuts.  We had cat mats with cat nip in the filling and they loved them!  We put them in their carriers for the plane to the UK -- not with fresh nip, but they were covered in drool and fur and we figured that it helped make the kennel a little more familiar!

Maxwell loves nip in most instances. They do suddenly develop an indifference from overdosing. So if he plays with a catnip mouse for a while he'll suddenly lose interest and walk away.
M. shows absolutely no interest at all in the fancy scratching pad (for dulling his claws) even if it is saturated in nip. He does sometimes use one of those carpet covered posts (which I found at the dump!) But mostly he uses the furniture and woodwork 

M. shows absolutely no interest at all in the fancy scratching pad (for dulling his claws) even if it is saturated in nip. He does sometimes use one of those carpet covered posts (which I found at the dump!) But mostly he uses the furniture and woodwork 

Maxwell sounds an awful lot like Willie, unfortunately. We've never been able to keep him from scratching the sofas no matter how many enticing catnip-laced pads and posts we've bought.

But he does love his catnip toys! Even at the ripe old age of 13, he turns into a complete kitten when you give him a catnip mouse! 

this was the loose kind....i tried showing him how to use the scratcher..... i tried placing his paws on it... all he would do was sniff and walk away. lol

There's no accounting for cat behaviour!