My cat Vienna is a magician. I keep buying her catnip Mousies, in packs of 5. She plays with them, preferring the black ones, and eventually they disappear. So I buy some more. I’ve checked under the furniture and found a few, but there are over a hundred that have simply vanished. I know she doesn’t eat them, or I’d be finding Mousie parts and catnip lying around.
It must be magic.
Hey, sounds legit. Vienna is witchy-kitty.
I appreciate the recipe-sounds easy enough that I might just try it. I’d pick out a pan I don’t care about to cook it in and then store that pan on the back porch😐. Do you shape little balls of the mixture and store in the fridge?
Very good friends had cats they fed Temptations to and that is exactly what happens. Got so bad that in the middle of the night the cats would knock the container off the pantry shelf and scare every sleeping person in the house out of their wits. Plus every morning somebody had to sleep up the scattered bits. Kitty Krack it certainly is. And I’m sure not at all good for their health (reformed sinners are the worst-I swill Coke Zero all day long-that’s scarcely different, but I’m the one who drives to the store and pays for my bad habits).
Try checking in floor heating/ac/air grates if you have any. That’s my kitties favorite stashing place, or under the fridge. Had to replace my gas stove a year ago and the delivery men laughed when they pulled the old one out and there was 20 ratty catnip mouse underneath.
Better leave out the garlic. It’s toxic to cats; and apparently quantities too small to cause immediate illness can build up long term toxicity. Garlic Toxicity & Pet Health | Dog & Cat Food Risks in Your Home
Oh, my. Bear will not be happy. He loves his garlic.
Maybe over boiling gets rid of the bad parts. They’ve been eating these treats for 2yrs.
I doubt it. But check with your vet.
I suspect the cats are mostly wild about the liver, not the garlic.
I think all cats do this, but it’s still insulting.
Whenever the cuteness of my cats overcomes me, I pick them up for a cuddle, some kissy face, and some squeaky talk. When I put them down again, they always very thoroughly clean themselves like they can’t wait to get the monkey stink off.
Excuse me, but I thought the whole rubbing up on the legs and head butts was to reinforce the home scent of the clowder, of which I am an honorary human member.
Lol, same here. And the lower right corner of the fridge door is especially grimy from their cheek to tail rubs.
One of mine tries to slap the phone out of my hand if it comes between us.
Vienna must be related to my Sadie Mae. She, too, makes the catnip mousies disappear, although she prefers the white ones. There is only so much furniture they can hide underneath, and Sadie Mae usually lets us know when they are under the furniture. I’m thinking she’s disappeared at least 50 to 75 mousies since we got her 18 months ago. The crazy thing is she discovered the first catnip mousie under the couch - and even though we had another cat before her, this cat never owned a catnip mousie.
The strange thing is Vienna also has some catnip fish, and they never disappear, just the mousies. I’ve checked under every place they could be, and they’re just gone.
Maui circles around his food bowl and approaches it from the east. He eats with his head facing west.
Wow I have a cat that does the same thing, poops, uses her back paws to bury it but her front paws will just claw the plastic sides of the cat litter enclosure she’s in or the outside wall of it.
For those of you with disappearing catnip mousies … do you have any houseplants?
Maybe they’re burying the mice, which would disintegrate quickly anyway.
One of my cats DOES NOT like to be petted. He’s a sweet cat who will follow someone from room to room and sit down next to them completely content, but the moment you start petting him he gets angry. You can get away with one or two pets but linger too long and he will either angrily meow or try to bite your hand. I thought he was doing it because of pain from petting too roughly or from a sore area but no matter where you touch him he gets mad. He’s the only cat I’ve ever seen that isn’t a complete psycho cat that doesn’t like to be petted.
No, those mousies are GONE! I just keep buying new ones.
Eaten! 
I knew one case like that, many years ago; and I eventually heard that the cat had an illness that meant touching him anywhere at all was probably hurting him. I don’t remember, if I ever knew, what the illness was; and it’s possible your cat is healthy and just being weird; but I’d have him checked out by a vet.
We haven’t had any “livestock” in the house since the last child moved out in 2006. That cat hated my guts anyway, even though I constantly explained to her that I’m the one that pays for her food, litter and vet bills. When that son moved out and took the cat I was just fine with that.
Anyway, the last time I had a cat that was “my own” died in 1985. However, that was undoubtedly the “coolest” cat a man could have. He did lots of peculiar things but perhaps the strangest was he liked to lap up “mushroom juice”. That’s the water in the can with the mushrooms. I found out one time when I had accidentally spilled a drop or two on the floor and he raced over and licked it up! After that I would pour some in his dish from time to time and sure enough, he’s lick it right up!
Nope, no houseplants. I think they are in the same place our random socks disappear - some portal in another dimension.
Along with all those single earrings out of what used to be a pair.