The felines are happy campers this evening.

My neighbor was cleaning up around her small patio and opted to pull a catnip plant that had gotten a good start on the spring and was already 2’ tall with a lot of leaves but no blooms yet. So I got it.

Been drying rinsed off leaves in the oven for the past few hours and the whole apartment smells like catnip. A couple of stalks went into a vase with water and Fat Cat has been chewing a leaf off of there now and then. And Chat Noir found where I had rinsed leaves drying on paper towels before they went into the oven and helped himself there. Tuxedo Cat was given some shredded fresh leaves so she wouldn’t feel left out.

And I’ll pass a baggie of the dried leaves off to my other neighbor so that the Neighbor Cats benefit from this largess as well.