See subjects.
“Will enough catnip or a long enough exposure to same satiate my cats?”
The catnip satiated Fluffy’s need to alter her kitty consciousness.
I don’t know about the sentence, but I’ve observed cats ‘dosing up’ then going off to enjoy their buzz.
It’s more like mushrooms and less like beer, imo. No desire to immediately redose. Your cat may vary.
My cat gets bored with things pretty quickly. When it comes to catnip, if I give her a new catnip toy she will go nuts with it for a little while but within maybe 5-10 minutes she’s done with it and it becomes just another dusty stuffed object. I don’t know if she has a high tolerance for 'nip or maybe the buzz wears off quickly.
Similarly with the laser pointer - it’s good for a few minutes of frantic kitty action and then she figures out that she will never catch the red dot so she tunes out. A couple of months later she’s forgotten and we can repeat that cycle.
Standard exception to the “Getting bored quickly” rule applies - if your cat finds something to play with at 1am when you are trying to sleep then it will be the Best Toy Ever and worthy of noisy playtime for hours on end.
**Can cats get satiated by/from/of/with catnip? How do I use “satiate” correctly in a sentence? **
“In catnip I sat. I ated it.”
Bravo. Really.
Did u has cheeseburger after u ated it?
My cat is satiated with catnip. (could be present tense or past)
My cat is satiated by catnip. (catnip does this to him)
My cat is satiated from catnip. (catnip causes this reaction)
My cat is satiated of catnip. (can’t wrap my tongue around this one)
I don’t see much difference between “with”, “by” or “from” (all seem acceptable to me), but I can’t see “of” used in this context. I guess I’m not much of a Grammar Nazi, since I can’t think of any rule that applies.
I’m thinking “sated” is better.
The cat is sated with catnip.
I grow catnip in my front and north planting beds. When the plants are young (less than 6 centimeters high) they are soft and my foursome rolls around in them regularly. Once they get a bit more mature (and the stems stiff) the cats forget about them.
Catnip plants can grow pretty tall, so I trim them back once in a while. When I do, I lay the cut stems on the ground. Yowza! Once discovered, it’s stoner heaven for whichever feline reaches it first. Forget about the young catnip scenario. Watching one of mine roll, bite, rub, abuse and generally want to sink into the leafy stems is a RIOT! But they do in fact become satiated, and wander away. (Sometimes they do fall asleep in the bed though.)
The cut stems are good for a two or three days, so my foursome usually all get a shot at the rolling action. It’s always fun to watch them immersed in whatever heaven catnip provides.
Try the real thing. MUCH better than the dried toys.
In my observations, mature catnip plants have zero attraction to cats. But once the stems are cut and made available on the ground, cats will respond.
From the Wikipedia page on catnip:
It says “citation needed” right there though, so I’m not sure how reliable a claim it is.
A little on “sate versus satiate.”
What is the grammatical term for a verb like “satiate” that can only be used with a “backwards object?”–my term. Subject-satiate-object doesn’t work, I gather now.