Extra Strong mints!

[berties mum]

Thanks for this thread, it's finally explained why Bertie loves me most when I've just brushed my teeth!!!!  He doesn't even react to catnip so it just didn't occur to me ... how funny! 

[Gillian Harvey]

She loved menthol too which is a similar smell, one of my worst memories is of when I was feeling a bit sorry for myself and had rubbed some vicks vaporub into my chest and was woken by her licking it off my chest 

 

[scattycat]

Ahhhh ..... that's ok then! 

It's the first we've ever had a cat do that to mints so we werent sure if it was ok or not.... you just know I'm going to have to see if the boys have the same reactions 

[CurlyCatz]

Cody likes aftereight sticks..does that count 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Tiggy used to absolutely LOVE mints, anything she could get her paws on - chewing gum, polos, anything minty!  Obviously I din't let her eat them but she loved to try and lick them through the packaging.   I used to be really mean and tease her by brushing my teeth and then when she came up to snuggle me at bedtime I'd blow my minty breath in her face 

 She loved menthol too which is a similar smell, one of my worst memories is of when I was feeling a bit sorry for myself and had rubbed some vicks vaporub into my chest and was woken by her licking it off my chest 

[Beccles]

  doesn't sound all that perilous... but I hope she doesn't try and eat some and hurt her mouth, I find really strong mints a bit mouth-hurty.

[Reynard]

Mint and catnip are members of the same plant family or genus i.e. Nepeta.

So I would guess that the peppermint oil used in extra strong mints has some of the same (or similar) active chemical compounds which give a cat that catnip "high".

[scattycat]

Does anyone know if Extra Strong Mints happen to have something in them which makes cats react like when they like cat nip?

Ginny was pushing her nose into some paper on my husbands desk, and was acting just like when she's in a cat nip mood ....

So we removed the paper, and it was an open packet of extra stong mints that she was trying to get to.

We held one up infront of her and she squirmed her eyes, as I assume they're strong, but then she started to rub the side of her mouth along it - we took the mint away after she did it as we dont know if mints are dangeous or not - but it's just a really werid reaction!