Those disappointed with their cat’s ho-hum response to catnip have an alternative in silver vine, more commonly used in parts of Asia where it is referred to by its Japanese nickname, matatabi. That’s short for “matatabi dance” or “travel again,” for cats’ wriggling movements along the floor when under the plant’s euphoria-inducing influence. It turns […]
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