Cat Goes On Catnip Bender To Celebrate St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and you all know what that means? Partay! People all over the States and back on Ireland love celebrating this day, allowing themselves to go a little bit wild. Of course there is beer all around, most of it dyed green for the occasion.

While we humans like to indulge ourselves in some good old fashioned ale, cats like to celebrate the holiday with something else that comes in the color green - catnip! Butters the cat demonstrates just how relaxed he gets when he gets his daily dose of cats’ favorite opiate.

Of course, no St. Paddy’s Day would be complete without some gold coins and shamrocks all around. Butters doesn’t really care about the decorations; he only cares about the dough. He takes a few whiffs and licks of the stuff and bam! The chubby cat is on his side, enjoying the high. Even the teaser toy that his owner gives him seems super-duper interesting now that Butters is on the nip!

He may have gotten a bit too far with the nip though, because when the owner reaches for the coins, Butters swats her on the hand. Does he think she will steal his gold?

Catnip may be considered the marijuana for cats, but it is not addictive at all and completely harmless to your pet toyger. Humans are immune to the effects of catnip, however Native Americans once used the plant to soothe colicky babies.