Kitty Weed

Since our new cat loves scratching the carpet way too much my wife got a new scratch pad for them. This new scratch pad is just strips of neatly sliced cardboard tucked into a cardboard frame. It looks more like a 3rd grader's school project than something I would pay money for.

But the entire product packaging, however humble, is ingenious. Within the ripples of corrugated strips one sprinkles a cats favorite herb: catnip.

They love this thing it seems. It's hard too say if it truly love. They will sniff and scratch and scratch and then crash on it. The reaction is probably less than tender affections and more like "sleeping it off" after being jacked-up on kitty-weed.

Still, they do look really, really cute when they take turns crashing on the scratch pad. I try not to think of it as a kitty "huffing house" too much.