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Magic mushrooms make my cat go mental

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Raymonde

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I haven't fed him any, but whenever there's some in the house he starts acting very strangely. We've been picking twice this month and each time when we get back and lay the mushrooms out to dry he acts like he's picking up on something on a different level.

Usually we can't keep him off the glass coffee table, but when there are mushrooms laid out on there he will sit near it but not jump up (I wish he felt that way about all drugs, the number of times he's put a foot in a carefully-prepared line would be annoying as hell if it wasn't so funny). He's quite talkative anyway but when there are mushrooms about he seems to be more talkative, and have a wider range of noises he makes. He sounds almost confused but not in any scared way, he almost looks a bit awestruck.

After the first time we went this month and had laid out the shrooms, the patio door was open and another cat that I've never seen before came right up to the door to investigate, and it was only my cat standing his ground that made it go away. My cat is not normally territorial at all and happily lets next door's cat come in.

Also yesterday after laying the mushrooms out on the table he came and sat on my lap while I was at the computer, which is not unusual at all. But after I'd made him move so I could go to the other room for something, he went and sat under the computer table in amongst a load of electrical cables which he never normally does at all. He didn't follow me to bed like he normally does either, he just stayed under the desk amongst the cables.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this and can anyone offer an explanation?

Here's some pictures of the mushrooms:

Don't get yourself in trouble. ~atara

And here's young Rasputin, looking quite confused:

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Has he seen you eat them? He might associate them with you acting weird -- cats have a pretty damn good sense of smell, so if he knows you ate one and tripped, Pavlovian conditioning kicks in.

Also, I'm removing the pictures because self-incrimination is bad.
 
No, he likes being around me when I'm tripping though. DMT, acid and mushrooms make him sit near me in an unusually calm way even if he hasn't seen me take anything. When I'm on ketamine he tends to be a bit wary of me and often disappears quickly, unless it's one of those K trips where you meet higher beings and get bathed in positivity, for want of a better way of putting it. Methoxetamine seems to be somewhere between the two extremes.

There really seems to be something that he (and the other random neighbourhood cat I mentioned) picks up on relating to psychedelics. Without wanting to sound like a mad old hippie cat lady, cats seem to be tuned to an energy frequency that we humans only get from psychedelics. I find it very interesting though that before the mushrooms have even been taken by anyone he seems to be somehow reverent of them.

There's definitely something about natural psychedelics that is attractive to other animals though, annoyingly including blood-sucking insects. I was at a party in the woods towards the end of July, and the conditions were perfect for a dawn raid by an Apocalypse Now-style swarm of midges (low cloud at night, very sunny and hot at dawn). I got the absolute fuck bitten out of me anyway, but when my girlfriend and I went off to smoke some changa they went into full on Ride Of The Valkyries mode as soon as the pipe was lit. It's an interesting experience trying to escape from biting insects across dewy hillside whilst everything's in DMT-distortion mode. :)

As well, there's a bit of a flea problem in my house at the moment and I thought we'd finally got it under control, but as soon as I came back home the other day covered in psilocybin sweat the fleas found me very easily.

TL;DR; there's something about natural psychedelics that animals are inherently drawn too. I'm just surprised that it seems to work with raw mushrooms on cats.

I'd love to hear similar tales from anybody who's had similar experiences.

EDIT: Here's a picture of the party just as the mist was clearing, it's so beautiful! It's also perfect for DMT-loving midges it seems. :p

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I think animals can sense change in behavior on an instinctual level, if you are relaxed there is nothing to worry about in terms of unpredictability, if you are very vigilant and alert I don't think cats would mind as much as you would think because being sharply aware of your surroundings is a good, natural, healthy thing in nature isn't it? But when tripping, behavior can often be distorted, mushrooms are good at that IMO. Sometimes it's very obvious, but even when you think it is pretty acceptable there may be something 'off' that your cat picks up on.

It probably also really depends on the animal though, like the type of animal but also which specific one. Some cats are for lack of a better translation 'well-bonded', something that can be critically affected during a certain age, but also something that accumulates as a number of bad, even unsafe experiences. I'm not saying you have a traumatized pet, not at all. Some are also born that way and others are not. But a cat that is unsuspecting of anything and perhaps has a less wild, primitive, instinctual guard up... such a cat can probably tolerate a tripping owner better I guess.

Sure, I have experience with two different cats and tripping. One as owner and the other one is a frequent guest that seems to be outside a lot of the time. Both are very laid-back but I remember a few times when I was definitely acting weird and it was not appreciated. Really felt like a 'predictability' thing.
Actual tales? Nah not really.
 
maybe he could tell via your body language that the mushrooms are an object that you really respect, so he shows them more respect and recognizes their value?
 
i don't think it's cool that your cat routinely puts his paw in a "line"
you know he goes and licks that off right?
and he's got fleas? you gotta take care of that, man.
 
cats can get themselves high by eating plants that they know are safe and fun. Unless you have a proper dose for your cat you SHOULD NOT ever drug them. They respond differently to drugs than we do, not a whole lot but in some way. As well, what if your cat has a bad trip? good luck talking them out of it.
 
I would never give my cat drugs, but if it goes out and repeatedly gets itself high without hurting himself, why not?

btw... Im not for real, I wouldnt let my cats do that. The idea of a cat stepping in a line and licking his paw to get high is amusing to me
 
lol yes. Sometimes i leave my powders around by accident if my kitty took one paw print dose he'd be out for sure. it scares me. They seem to like cannabis though.
 
Silly people, a cat is not going to associate licking some powder off its paw with getting high. They do however clearly get high from catnip... they recognize it then and there and get high immediately so they can make that connection. Catnip is PLENTY for any cat's "getting high" needs, they don't need anything else, really!

As for acting funny around the shrooms, I agree with the above post that he sees you "playing" with them... handling them, inspecting them, laying them out, etc., and recognize that you see them as important. and so he gets very fascinated by them "Hey, what the heck are those weird things Daddy is playing with? Is that a mouse tail on those???" Also, I think cats & dogs are VERY VERY sensitive to our body language, even breathing patterns, the patterns and tempos with which we look around and make eye contact and they DO notice a "change" when we are tripping. But I don't think they are really able to make a logical connection between the object of the shrooms and these behavior changes... their interest in the shrooms themselves as "toys" and later noticing you acting different is just a coincidence that YOU notice, but I am pretty sure they are not making any mental connection between the two.
 
porkstock said:
i don't think it's cool that your cat routinely puts his paw in a "line"
you know he goes and licks that off right?
and he's got fleas? you gotta take care of that, man.
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It's happened possibly twice and I've wiped it off each time. And I've spent over £100 in the last month on anti-flea treatments, so please take your high horse and ride off into that sunset over there.
 
Just get "Revolution", or something similar, the kind of drops that is applied to the skin at the base of the neck... kills both adult fleas as well as prevents hatching of eggs, etc. Works fast too... before long any remaining fleas in the house will bite the cat and then die from the medicine. Treat once a month and your problem will vanish... works in a few days too. You dont need to spend £100... should cost 1/4 that amount and work very quickly and effectively. Take it to a vet, don't try to get non-prescription treatments on your own, they are rarely effective. In the US they recently started selling this stuff over the counter without a prescription as well, but before that the type of drops like this you could get at the pet store or grocery without a vet were also NOT nearly as effective as what the vet can supply. Vet is your best choice for proper timely treatment of a persistent flea problem. Do yourself and that VERY CUTE cat a favor, and you will also save money in the long run too.
 
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As for acting funny around the shrooms, I agree with the above post that he sees you "playing" with them... handling them, inspecting them, laying them out, etc., and recognize that you see them as important. and so he gets very fascinated by them "Hey, what the heck are those weird things Daddy is playing with? Is that a mouse tail on those???" Also, I think cats & dogs are VERY VERY sensitive to our body language, even breathing patterns, the patterns and tempos with which we look around and make eye contact and they DO notice a "change" when we are tripping. But I don't think they are really able to make a logical connection between the object of the shrooms and these behavior changes... their interest in the shrooms themselves as "toys" and later noticing you acting different is just a coincidence that YOU notice, but I am pretty sure they are not making any mental connection between the two.
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The thing is though that if he thought they were like a mouse and something he could play with, he'd be up on the table trying to bat them around. He's on the table batting anything else he finds intriguing, knocking lighters, hair grips and whatever else he can find onto the floor.

I just got home from the pub and he flopped over in a relaxed heap under the mushroom table and was much more receptive to my friend Steffi petting him than he normally is.

Another thing that was very unusual is that last time we got shrooms we put some of them up on top of a wardrobe to dry out. Next to the wardrobe is the dresser that my girlfriend uses to put her makeup on etc, and the cat has literally never gone on there. As soon as the shrooms were on top of the wardrobe though he was on the dresser looking up at where the mushies were. As before though, he made no attempt to actually disturb the mushrooms, which is nothing at all like he normally acts if there's something that interests him.
 
DwayneHoover said:
Just get "Revolution", or something similar, the kind of drops that is applied to the skin at the base of the neck... kills both adult fleas as well as prevents hatching of eggs, etc. Works fast too... before long any remaining fleas in the house will bite the cat and then die from the medicine. Treat once a month and your problem will vanish... works in a few days too. You dont need to spend £100... should cost 1/4 that amount and work very quickly and effectively. Take it to a vet, don't try to get non-prescription treatments on your own, they are rarely effective.
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I've used Frontline (50mg fipronil, the accepted best spot-on treatment in the UK), flea spray for the carpets and furnishings (0.386% permethrin, 0.092% tertramethrin, 0.047% S-methoprene), flea foggers for gassing the house (13.25% permethrin fumigated through smoke) and a collar that's 456mg/18% permethrin.

Unfortunately we have 70s-style shag carpets (see photos above) and our next door neighbours are skanky smackheads who don't look after their cat and probably had their own fleas well before they got the little beast.

The apparent best product I've seen for flea-bombing the house appears to be illegal in Britain. If anyone can tell me where I can get the Raid® Flea Killer Plus Fogger in Britain please do let me know. :D
 
As long as you keep the little darling on Frontline continuously, it shouldn't take too long before all the fleas are gone, without the need for foggers and sprays which you and the cat will end up ingesting and which I am sure are bad for you. Well anyway, good luck. BTW Revolution is better than frontline because in addition to the eggs it also kills the adult fleas, other biting pests like mites, and also prevents heartworm.

Anyway to get back on topic, while I lean towards rational explanations, I do think there are mysterious elements to life, consciousness, the universe and everything that totally escape all our senses as well as our reason (why should we assume we CAN understand everything... even Einstein thought it was bizarre that so much was apparently within our comprehension), so who knows, maybe Rasputin [GREAT name for a black cat, btw!] does somehow have a special "feeling" about the shrooms that defies logical understanding. Psychedelics have taught me to be open to many unexpected potentialities that's for sure!
 
IMO animals and pets definitely know when you're tripping. My dogs always act very inquisitive and curious when I'm high or tripping. Especially on tryptamines. I think my behavior and body language are more out of the ordinary on tryptamines than phenehylamines.
 
One time peaking on LSD my puppy became very worried for me, she seemed to jump up at my face trying to join me in the vast sea of thought I was drowning in.. I remember her seeming scared that something wasn't right with me. Animals are neat:3
 
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