::::snicker:::: Good thing he believed you!!
Friends of ours had cats. They had a bag ful of catnip in one of the cupboards.
They had a buddy of theirs pop in to feed their cats while they were out of town for the weekend.
When they got back, the baggie of catnip was gone.
I had an old baggie of catnip in the proverbial junk drawer, along with all the detritus of the kitchen/house. When we moved the movers packed everything (including the trash, but that’s another story). Upon unpacking I found the bag of catnip carefully wrapped in paper along with the package of rolling papers that must have been in the bottom of the drawer somewhere.
Wow - now those are some honest movers!
Catnip and rolling papers go well together. (OK, in this case, the"rolling paper" is a kraft paper bag…).
You can just see the kitties going “Duuuuuuuuuude… wait… what? oh mannnnnnn”.
my 15 y.o. tom still catches young jack rabbits. he brings them into the garage and eats everything but the ears and back feet. skull, fur, bones, guts, meat, blood, front paws, but no back feet or ears. what a mess, he’s out there right now finishing one up.
Sylvester on the nip. Check out more of his videos, too - they make me laugh my ass off. 
I knew this morning my 8 lb. fur ball with the sensitive tummy wasn’t feeling well, but Jeez, 8 piles of dried on hard chunk filled vomitus?? And could I clean it up before you demand to be fed??
Two of our cats are suicidal. One is sitting on the hearth of the fireplace, obviously trying to catch himself on fire. The other one, though, is REALLY playing with fire…she’s trying to eat the banana bread. My husband loves banana bread with a deep and abiding love. He doesn’t care for cake very much, so I made him some banana bread for his birthday “cake”, even though it’s a belated cake. The bananas just wouldn’t ripen before today. Now, he’s quite fond of even supermarket banana bread, but he goes crazy over homemade banana bread. Apparently, Sapphire thinks that it smells yummy, and she wants to try it. She’s gonna get her butt smacked if she keeps trying to get a piece from his plate.
About the hearth-sitting cat: cat fur is self-extinguishing! All the cats who didn’t have that gene burned themselves up back in cave dwelling days. 
Dunno about how to protect the banana bread. One day my mother held a slice of garlic bread out to our then cat, expecting him to back away indignantly at the first sniff. Instead he neatly hooked it out of her hand with his claws, and raced out of the kitchen carrying his booty triumphantly.
So watch out!
My oldest cat lies right up against the wood stove. To date, her fur has not caught fire. She’s just baking her old bones.
My Aunty’s cat catches young wild rabbits. He brings them to the back door so my uncle can skin them for him. He wont eat them unskinned. Then he eats everything.
One of my cats, now deceased, had medium hair. She wasn’t a short hair, but she didn’t have the extra long hair of a Persian or Angora, either. She had medium long hair, and her tail was especially fluffy. All of her brain cells were dedicated to hunting, eating, sleeping, getting skritches, growing hair, and catching her tail on fire.
Cat fur is NOT self-extinguishing.
The rabbit catching cat has his human well-trained, and is an inspiration to cats everywhere.
My husband bought some catnip at the grocery store, so I attempted to appease the Feline Overlords with it. This must be ancient catnip, or possibly just oregano, because the cats Are Not Amused. They’ve been sniffing at it, and did a bit of rolling, but clearly, this nip is not thrilling them. We’re going to have to buy some from the pet store, I guess. I’ll bet that this nip was really really stale. It’s just an herb, after all, and herbs do get stale.
I really don’t want to think about how much I’d freak out if one of my cats caught a tail on fire.
When I bought my last home, I really wanted a wood or pellet burning stove, but was too worried about cats catching on fire.
I have found that grocery store nip is not acceptable for my Feline Overlords. Pet store nip is better, but mine want the fresh stuff. They would think it amusing to see me handcuffed while drug sniffing dogs ignored my bag full of nip to check out the cashier.
I am very careful when handling frightened animals. I wear gloves and restrain my victim. The only scars I have on my hands have come from a little barky dog and Lucky.
I grabbed little barky dog from under a car in a busy intersection. He was old and fat and had very dull looking teeth, but he bit me through my leather gloves. That was my fault, I treated him like he was old and fat and didn’t have teeth.
Lucky is front declawed, so idiot me didn’t think to worry about what he would do with his back feets the first time I tried to put him in a carrier.
Lucky has been looking kinda scruffy, and felt like he was losing weight, so he went to the vet. Thyoid problems, so he has pills.
I know how to pill cats. It should be easier to pill a cat that only has half of a mouth, right?
Wrong!
He bit me so badly that I’m going to have another scar.
BUTTHEAD CAT!!!
Dogzilla, if your cat is peeing all over (due to renal issues), you could try switching his feed. It might not work, but my elderly cat was having issues and switching to a low protein feed made a big difference. You might have to search, but get the lowest protein you can find. My vet had told me to just put down my 16 year old cat, but said I could try switching his feed. It’s been nearly a year and he’s doing so much better.
Oh, and if anyone thinks their cat is crazy, I’ve got a few that could probably rival them. But then I’m well on my way to being a crazy cat lady, so I’m bound to have a couple weird ones.
Oh No! What is it about pets named Lucky? Anyway, I may be preaching to the choir because you already work with cat meds, but have you considered transdermal methimazole for your guy? I don’t think all transdermals are as effective as they should be, but that’s one med I’ve seen work well. Just put on a finger cot and smear a measured dose into the inside of his ear. PM me and I can give you a couple compounding pharmacies if you’re not already familiar. One’s in Phoenix. Another one makes apparently delicious chewable tablets according to two of my cats that try to eat meds that aren’t for them.
This particular cat caught her tail on fire several times. The fire never reached her skin, but I’m sure that I got a few grey hairs from her adventures. This same cat used to stand on her back legs and rest her front paws on the open oven door when I checked the roast. She wanted to know if it was Dinner yet. No, she wasn’t a bright little cat.
We have a fireplace, and it has wire mesh curtains and glass doors. If we have a fire going, we either sit on the couch with the doors open, or if we aren’t directly watching the fire, we shut the doors. Shutting the doors reduces the heat that goes into the room, but it also reduces the chances of Krispy Kitties.
We have several fleece rectangles which have rolled up edges, which the cats adore. We also have one cat bed, lined with fleece, that is electrically heated. The cats are sure that this is one reason to keep humans around…in order that we bring home these sorts of things. Plus, of course, we grow and supply nip.
Oh, wait. The cat is Bob and the guy is Bill.
I did a Huh? until I remembered that.
No doubt Bob and Bill both appreciate that.
I sent that link to everyone I know. Its happy and sad, those poor cats used to be housepets, and if you look at their feets, many of them are declawed. Humans are such idiots sometimes.
Like you, I don’t trust trasdermals much. I also don’t like liquid meds. IMHO, pills are the only way to be sure that my victim is getting the proper dosage. I’m really good at pilling cats, I was just stupid. The bite was my fault, I was careless. My hand started swelling about an hour after the bite, and now I’m talking pills because I tried to stuff a pill into Lucky.
GG at work was kinda nonplussed at the idea that his boss was sleeping between Bob and Bill every night. Polite kid who never said anything until I showed him a pic of Bob being cute. Then he almost peed himself laughing at his idea of my sex life.