It's a pleasant feeling of intense happiness for cats, which they might display by rubbing their faces and heads against the catnip, shaking their heads or drooling. Do cats get 'high' from catnip?

Cats can eat catnip too, and it may even help their digestive tract. However, in large quantities, there can be negative effects such as vomiting and dizziness.

Most — but not all — cats can get loopy and happy from catnip. Here's why that happens and how to give it to your cat safely.

Catnip’s effect is caused by nepetalactone, which stimulates brain receptors and releases endorphins. Cats react by rolling on the catnip, and some become hyperactive or aggressive.

Though cats can’t get addicted to catnip, scientists wrote a paper in 2021 that explained that the “opioid system regulating euphoric and rewarding effects in humans is involved in the ...

How Does It Affect Your Cat? Many experts believe that this chemical (nepetalactone) acts as a feline attractant and triggers the response.

The effects of catnip are short lived, from around ten minutes up to half an hour. Cats can also develop an immunity to catnip if offered it too frequently.

On this episode of MorningLine, Nick Beres sits down with our resident veterinarian, Allison Fields from Bellshire Family Vet.

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