he's like never mind the piles i want
the whole thing
nope give me that back
yeah you got one the best
you like that one the most charcoal
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hey friends it's justin jericho and i
got some goodies that we're going to
test out today
so i just bought some valerian root
cabinet keefe
and silver vine powder we're gonna test
each
to see which ones jericho likes the best
so catnip is very common with
cat toys it's part of the catmint
family so the plant produces a chemical
called nepatilactone and it's a
terpene that's found naturally in the
plant
and this is what gives cats that
reaction that slap happy
relaxed and calm feeling when they have
cad nip
it puts cats in the mood to have fun so
you'll see
maybe some chewing and drooling rubbing
and rolling around on the
catnip or kind of toy this terpene
actually stimulates opioid receptors in
the brain
and it's basically tickling the pleasure
centers so it appears to make cats quote
unquote high
but it's entirely harmless and
non-addictive
however there are some alternatives to
catnip
so for example in this study they had
100 cats
and they exposed them to catnip and
several alternatives
plants were presented to the cats in
their own living environment a minimum
of five times in random order
there was at least a five minute wash
out period between the scents
to allow the cats to clear the scent
from their noses before moving on to the
next
so they found that 79 of cats responded
to
silver vine 68 of the cats responded to
catnip 53 responded to
terry and honeysuckle and 47
responded to valerian root
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i put down little tiny piles of each
this one's catnip keefe this pile here
is the silver vine powder
and this pile here is valerian root so
we're going to see which one jericho
likes
he's been able to sniff all of them he
was sniffing them while i
was putting them down so right now it
seems like he's
favoring the silver vine that's the one
that he's rubbing on
and that makes sense because more cats
actually respond to silver vine than
catnip
but the one that we most hear about is
but he's rubbing on the silver vine tin
he's like never mind the piles i want
the whole thing
no give me that back
i thought that he was going for catnip
that's why i took that away
so now he's going for the piles
oh yeah he goes for silver line again
what about this one jericho look at this
this one's valerian root
jericho
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which one which one do you like the best
it seems like he keeps going for silver
vine
yeah you got one the best
you like that one the most jericho
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catnip smells like mint
which makes sense it's part of the mint
family one of these smells like
feet though
and it's kind of funny because when i
worked as a cat sitter
before this pandemic i uh
would visit cats in their homes and they
would stick their nose
all the way into my shoe yeah it seems
like
jericho's going for silver vine what
about this one jericho
this one's catnip kind of keef
smell that
do you like that one
or do you like this one
which one
i don't know so which one is he gonna
pick
put them all three together which one is
it which one's the best jericho
which one i think he liked the silver
vine the most
that's the one that he was rubbing on
rolling on
yeah he's still rolling on that one i'm
still rolling still rubbing on that one
what about this one this is catnip keefe
he probably smells all three on my
fingers by now i've got some wonder
nice to meet you jericho um
this one's valerian root which one do
you like
he's rubbing on all of them now but i
think silver vine the most
more cats are attracted to silver vine
than our
catnip but these are great alternatives
if your cat doesn't fancy catnip
you can check out the products in the
description below thanks for watching
you