Pics and Purrs – Full Circle Herb

My cat, Willis Gray (above) has never had much of a reaction to catnip, but then a friend gave me your Hot Cats catnip toy. He was sleeping on his favorite chair and I set it next to him. The package wasn't even open yet but he actually woke up with his nose sniffing like crazy. He went right to it and started trying to rip it open. I grabbed my camera and have attached the cute photo. It is now his favorite thing in the world. Leave it to Oregon to grow such potent "herbs". Willis and I say THANKS for the good stuff!
Sherry

Before Farkle, we were a quiet, peaceful household of 3 senior cats and 1 old lady. We didn’t do much. We ate, slept, burped snorted, farted, and that was about it. Then along came Farkle, like a furry gamma ray burst: He yelled and hollered, clawed out the screens, sailed through the pet doors, renovated the living room, and took sole possession of all the catnip and toys. Now my house looks like a Roadrunner cartoon, with 3 born-again tigers in hot pursuit of 1 wiley tabby on turbo, all charged up like the Energizer bunny. I don’t need cable anymore. Now, Farkle needed a Hot Cat like a meteor needs an after-burner.

But I am in total awe at the durability of the Hot Cat. Farkle has shredded everything in the house and has tried to demolish the Hot Cat, but to no avail. You must make these things out of titanium or something. I’m impressed.

- Pat, Sun Valley, CA

Meet Koshka, my 5-year-old calico. She has a catnip problem, ever since she was a kitten and got her cardboard scratcher with the little bag of catnip inside. Even putting the catnip inside multiple plastic bags didn't keep her out of it (see the attached Catnip Frenzy).

I discovered Hot Cats when a coworker went on a trip to San Antonio and brought back a box for my "children." Naturally, when I made my own trip to San Antonio I picked up a fresh box. Now, when anyone in the office goes to San Antonio they have to pick up a box of Hot Cats for me. It's a rule.

Koshka always claims the entire box first, no matter where I put the box. She rubs her head over all the "cigars" in it (I call 'em catnip cigars because she gets stoned on them) and holds one rubbing it all over her cheeks.
Then I discovered the linked (Deluxe) Hot Cats in San Diego. Koshka really liked that, she could rub it all over her entire body!...
But she still claims all the Hot Cats for herself.
Her brother Odin got to lick the ones in the last box I brought home, and little Panda Bear is allowed to play with the empty cardboard box, but the cigars all belong to Miss Koshka, and Miss Koshka alone.

And as you can see in the picture, she has no trouble asserting her claims. (By the way, the rug has catnip woven into it, as does the little red blanket square she is under.)

So thank you so much for the wonderful Hot Cats!
Therese Winters
Alexandria, VA

A SPOOKY CAT TALE

Many years ago, I had just moved into a new home with my 2 cats…including one huge, tough, ex-alley cat with a crooked tail (I dubbed him “Question Mark”). One night, alone in my new place, I heard a strange sound coming from the living room below my bedroom. It was an eerie moaning/wailing sort of noise, and it was getting louder by the minute. I descended the stairs and flipped on the lights to see… Question Mark, laying on his side, both front and rear legs curled around the links of his Hot Cat. His eyes were rolled up and slightly glazed, his head was against the top of his Hot Cat, and he was alternately yowling, mrrowling, and generally singing to himself and the heavens above. A happy drunk he was that evening, and I was relieved to find that my new home was not, in fact, haunted.

- Marta, Seattle, WA

Just brought home a "Hot Cat" toy we purchased in Sausalito, California. Our boy Neezy went absolutely delirious! He DID smell it through your packaging and the store's bag; plus, it was up on our bed. He jumped on the bed and started slapping the bag. I opened your packaging and Neezy knocked it out of my hand and jumped on it like it was a gopher! He then began to act like many of the cats pictured in your brochure. Our 7 yr old hunter-cat played like a kitten. Great product!

Steve, Salinas, Calif.

Lil' Guy

Just had to share this with you...

I just got home from the Country Fair - minutes ago actually - [FullCircleHerb's note: we sell Hot Cats at the Oregon Country Fair each summer] barely have the van unpacked when I hear a crunching noise coming from the bedroom where I had just brought my bags in--here is what I found:

- my cat Lil' Guy had already found the bag with the new Hot Cats sausages, managed to pull one out of the double paper bagged wrapping - chewed/tore open the package and is already "nipping out!"

I am going to have to lock the rest of them up in a safe or high closet so he can't get to the rest of them which I bought as gifts! Haha! ~ Cheers, Brenda and Skyler, Lil' Guy, Koko, and Kinky the cats