Dirt basket for indoor cats

Is your indoor cat experiencing the following symptoms?

1. Rolls over fresh sandy cat litter
2. Walks over plants
3. Rubs back on balcony patio floor as if it's laced with catnip.
   

My cats definitely were. My friend says it's because they miss being in the wild.

To bring my cats closer to nature, I took my friend's suggestion to make a dirt basket. A dirt basket is basically a container with some soil, or sand. Of course, the container needs to be large enough to fit at least one cat. In the photo, I used an old Ikea litter tray (with curved sides for better dirt containment), filled it with soil, and placed it on the balcony patio floor.

Within a minute, the dirt basket received paws of approval from Friesia. A few moments later, Oatey shoved off Friesia to give his roll of approval in the dirt basket and curled up to sleep in it for the afternoon. The cats love it!

Oatey harvests catnip

A few months a go, my friend gave me some catnip plants to grow for my cats. They grew for a while but then one by one shrivelled and died. For sometime, I didn't have catnip until about a month or so ago, a few sprouted out. I was waiting for one of them to grow until the spores fully bloomed before uprooting them for my cats to chew on.

My cats didn't seem to realise the catnip was there until today. The pot of grass was bare from overgrazing. Oatey was looking for a mid-morning snack to chew on. That was when he sniffed upon the pot of catnip!

As you can see from the pictures, Oatey really enjoyed chewing on his harvest that he wants to keep every bit for himself. Luckily I managed to salvage some spores and sprinkle over a few pots. Let's hope the catnip grows again ;-)