Catnip Good For Kittens. While sniffing a bag of catnip makes sam completely bonkers nibbling on it usually has the opposite effect. But of course you won t want to give a kitten too much catnip as over ingesting can lead to vomit and diarrhea and kittens have much smaller bodies and thus lower tolerances in general than full grown cats.
Chewing on catnip whether it s dried or a fresh catnip plant has a different effect than smelling the herb. He ll probably be calm and mellow rather than zany and hyper. Although catnip is totally harmless and safe around kittens both to smell and to eat it isn t necessarily effective.
In fact cats know when they have had enough and will actively refuse catnip when offered.
It s perfectly safe to give a kitten small amounts of catnip however. While sniffing a bag of catnip makes sam completely bonkers nibbling on it usually has the opposite effect. It s perfectly safe to give a kitten small amounts of catnip however. The herb s influence is genetic so not all cats respond to it according to the humane society of the united states.
