When cats don’t eat catnip, we can help as follows: you can put mint on the cat’s nose, and the cat will lick it when it feels itchy; you can mix mint in cat food or canned food, so that the cat can eat it while eating. You will eat it; you can sprinkle mint on the toys, nests, and scratching posts that cats usually play with, so that cats will inhale it when they play.

The reasons why cats don’t eat catnip:

1. Catnip does not work on kittens until they reach sexual maturity around 6 months old. Reacting to catnip.

2. Not all cats are interested in catnip, mainly due to the influence of genes, but most cats (about 75%) will become excited or drunk when exposed to catnip. The state is like lying on the ground and rolling around, rubbing your face back and forth on the mint, or purring happily like you are drunk. Then a small number of cats are not very interested in this stuff, and an even smaller number of cats have no interest in it at all.

3. For most cats, the effect of catnip on cats lasts about 10 minutes, and then the effect disappears for about half an hour.