I have a friend who has three cats, and while she was driving me to hospital
the last time, I asked her whether hers liked catnip or not.  She said two
of them did, and one was absolutely mad about it.
I told her that I'd bought Kitty & BF a catnip mouse (no interest) and then
a catnip spray, which I sprayed the mousie and their bed with, everything.
They couldn't care less.
She told me that she knew where to get "good stuff"  Wink, and would get
some for my cats.
That was a few weeks ago, and I thought nothing else about it.
Today is my b'day, and a package in the porch contained two wrapped
presents.  One was a CD for me and the other was a small box of CATNIP!!
"that will launch your cat into a whimsical paradise called Kookamunga.
Kookamunga is like Nirvana or heaven for cats - but with better parking."

Inside the box was a thingie a bit like a handkerchief and some string.  I
took it I had to tie the catnip up into the material, so I did, and used
half of it to make a little pouchie thing.

I threw it in the direction of Boyfriend, and he came to look to see what it
was.  As soon as he got up to it, he started to rub his cheeks against it
and roll on the carpet.  Then he began to toss it, and bite it and dangle it
from his claws as he held his legs right up in the air.  LOL!  He played
like this for about fifteen minutes and then he decided he loved me very
much.  He wound himself round and round my legs and attempted to purr - he
doesn't normally purr, it's hard for him for some reason.  Then he lay on
the carpet again, and kept showing me his tummy and doing upside downy head.

So - I guess it works on Boyfriend <g>   Kitty seems to be immune to it.
After BF was completely stoned out, I showed Kitty the cotton pouch and put
it right under her nose.  No go.

Not many minutes later, BF asked to go out.  I wasn't sure whether to let
him in case he wasn't quite there in his mind.  However, he came back safely
after 20 minutes, and got his mouth round the catnip pouchie again.

He's been out to toilet just now, come in, and he's definitely in for the
night.  Wow.  This is *some* stuff.  He is *not* going out tonight.  Last
night, foxes woke me up at 1 a.m. going "WoW, WoW. WoW" in front of my
house.  I got up, looked out of the window, and couldn't see anything.  At
ten to two I saw a very large dog fox go past wowwing, this is the contact
call.
Sometimes they take cats.  Not all foxes will, but some do.  I was glad mine
were inside.  I know a farmer friend who has witnessed a fox with a cat in
it's mouth, and someone else who found a foxes earth under a shed with quite
a few cat's paws there.
So, I'd prefer that my two would stay in at night.  They don't always want
to, though.  They like to hunt, but the back door is open for them 24/7, and
I like to think if a fox was after them, they could run for the house.
Alternatively there are a lot of trees they could climb.  They can both
climb like experts.

Tweed