To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. These ingredients may cause your cats to enter a euphoric state that involves behaviors such as rolling, chin and cheek rubbing, drooling, meowing, and licking. Cats play with the sticks like toys and will often chew on them too and this is said to be good for their teeth.

I've seen a comment as to how pungent the smell is but I couldn't smell anything potent with my bag. Dosage: Do not give more than two to three times a week, otherwise habituation may occur and the sticks become less interesting.Matatabi/silvervine sticks are the dry stems of the Actinia Polygama, a climbing plant that grows in the highlands of Corea, China, and Japan. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. He loves kicker toys and already has a carrot and eggplant and I wanted to stick with the food theme since his name is Pickle. It is important to actively integrate the sticks into the game with the cat (see next picture for game tips). Some mention that it makes their cat more playful, while others say that it didn't interest their cats and that it was not very stimulating for the cat.

Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Especially good for house cats on a dry food diet where there is a higher risk of formation of dental plaque, calculus and bad breath. Matatabi, more commonly known as silvervine, is a plant which produces an oil that cats are naturally attracted to.

If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. Cats react to silvervine similarly to how they do to catnip, with behaviors like rolling, chin and cheek rubbing, meowing, drooling and licking. natural, dried silver vine or matatabi sticks for cats, with particularly invigorating effects that encourage your cat to play and lead an active lifestyle, as well as promoting dental care.