I never really thought that cats could appreciate fresh herbs until my daughters noticed how much they liked to hang around the dill in the backyard. Does that make them gourmet cats?
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About CASA Veneracion
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
The kitchen staff
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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Your cats are cute! I just recently tried growing catnip that is believed to have this behavioral effect to cats. We have a cat at home, and I do notice her glee when she comes close to the herb.
Ahhh… so they are attracted to herbal aromas. I hope they don’t eat my cilantro.
your cats are adorable! and you know what else is adorable? Munchkin cats! they’re so cute with their stubby little legs and arms! But i love any kind of cat! I’m just a cat person but i also love all sorts of other animals too!
My cat is an incredibly picky eater. He dislikes treats of any kind and isn’t interested in anything but his cat food (which is fine by me). However, one day I foung him licking the lid clean from a container of dill dip! Dill is the only “human” food he has ever liked. Is it safe for them? He likes tuna as well. I think if I mixed fresh dill in with it, he’d be in heaven.
Wow, they really do look like they’re enjoying that dill… That’s a funny observation. I never knew that before. Or maybe it’s just a preference of your cats in particular.
Thanks for the photo of your cats eating dill. I was wondering what killed my dill plant last year and what attacked my plant this year.
where can i find a catnip plant or catnip seeds? thanks..
catnip and oregano, are they the same?. thanks.
You can Google the answer to that question.