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S2E2 - Catnip (Don't make it weird.)

S2E2 - Catnip (Don't make it weird.)

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Content Warning: Drug use, including recreational drugs. Moral panics. Sexual references. Spoiler: ((it's not the cats))

What is catnip, what's its effect on cats, and is it really cats getting horny like so many think? Turns out these answers are a bit more complicated that we first thought.

Nicole's Sources:

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Repellency of Novel Catnip Oils Against the Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) | Journal of Medical Entomology.

Oxford Academic.

  1. Batume, C., et al. 2024.

Evaluating repellence properties of catnip essential oil against the mosquito species Aedes aegypti using a Y-tube olfactometer

. Scientific Reports.

  1. Espín-Iturbe, L., et al. 2017.

Active and passive responses to catnip (Nepeta cataria) are affected by age, sex and early gonadectomy in male and female cats

. Behavioural Processes.

  1. Johns Hopkins Medicine. 2019.

Deet Gives Humans an ‘Invisibilty Cloak’ to Fend Off Mosquito Bites

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