Hi Vanessa Yes, it is true about catnip. It's a plant known as catnip, calamintha or cat-mint, and as the name suggests, it is a member of the mint family (labiatae or lamiacae). The active ingredient which attracts cats is metatabilacetone. Cheers Shane -----Original Message----- From: Vanessa Brueford - Email Address: qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent On: 13/03/2009 18:12 Sent To: Guide Forum Friends - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guide.chat] I have a Guide-Cat that is human My man Daniel read me all you Guide-dog stories, they were so funny, I laughed with everyone I read. I do not have a Guide-dog, but I do have a Guide-cat and I am sure he is human. If anyone is coming to my door, like a visitor or postman, I will know well in advance, because my cat will hiss and I hear his claws scarper on my laminated floor. When I am lying down, my cat combs my hair with his claws, he also curls his claws gently around my finger, then lets go, then curls them again around my finger, lets go and continuosly doing this while purring loudly. I cannot bend down to the floor, so I do not have a litter tray, so where does he go you may ask, he has his own sink and he pees (excuse the french) down the plughole, to which the sink plughole has drank lots of disinfectant too. I have a two foot stick with a thick twine attached and attached to the twine is a rubber mouse. The mouses tail is tied to the twine, the twine is tied to the stick. I then clippety clop the mouse in little bounces and swishes across the floor, my cat goes belistic, I can hear his claws and pounds here there and everywhere. The stick and twine used to have a soft toy cat attached, but my crazy cat tore it apart, so it now has this rubber mouse attached. The reason my cat tore the original soft toy cat apart was because the soft toy cat was full of catnip. Some people smoke drugs called wackybacci (I think I spelt that correctly), apparently Catnip is a cats waccibacci drug. Anyone like to email me to say if this is true or false and if they know what catnip is and made of. My cat prefers the food I eat to that of catfood, he likes butter, rice pudding, custard, meat, fish, gravy etc. I could write lots more about my cat but this email is getting a bit long. Vanessa