the grass deck pipe

The grass deck pipe (Nepeta cateria): Because some cats love it and others ignore it?

The Nepeta cateria belongs to the family of the mints and has a very intense aroma, causes in the cats a critical moment of end to please and desire to play that it can last several minutes.

The smaller cats of three months of age normally do not respond to the grass deck pipe. Most of the adult cats they are excited when they smell, they chew and they eat this grass. They frequently will salivarán, they will roll and they will rub, and sometimes they run and they jump in answer to the grass deck pipe.
All the cats do not stimulate themselves in he himself degree, and a third of the cats will not respond absolutely.
This difference of answer from a cat to another one is, probably, due to environmental factors, genetic, and the sex of the cat (the males have a greater attraction towards the grass than the females).

If a cat that normally reacts, is in an ambient stranger or is anxious, is probable that it does not produce any intoxicating effect to him. The cats of certain races do not react to the grass.
Still the genetic characteristic is not known that it produces that attraction, but can obtain a selection following a genetic line by means of the mating of cats that have positive answer to the Nepeta cateria.

The active ingredient of the grass deck pipe is ?nepetalactona?. This substance chemically is related to a found similar compound in tinkles of cats. This can be the cause because the males have a greater attraction by the Nepeta than the castrated females and males.

When the grass has but of one week of cut, the effects diminish. The cats they like green and fresh. It is necessary to prick it a little to stimulate the emission of the substance, if the dry Nepeta is used, is necessary to keep it in a bottle sealed in the refrigerator and a coffee teaspoon is administered to him weekly.

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