We made the catnip we wished we could buy.
Kitty's Nip started with one stubborn belief: a cat's favorite thing in the world shouldn't be a bag of dust and stems. So we built something better, from the leaf up.
From a frustrated cat parent to a tin worth buying.
It always went the same way. Buy a bag of catnip, tip it out, and find more stem and dust than anything a cat would actually want. Half of it ended up swept off the floor. Our cat would sniff once, look unimpressed, and walk away.
So we went looking for the good stuff. We found a Washington State grower doing it the slow, organic way, without pesticides, and learned that the magic lives almost entirely in the leaf and flower, not the woody bits padding out most bags. The fix was obvious: keep only the part that works.
Now every order is sourced from that same Washington grower, hand-sorted to pure leaf and flower, and packed in small batches into resealable tins, so it lands as fresh and potent as the day it was cut. The first time our cat went fully zero-gravity over it, we knew we were done settling.
That's the whole idea behind Kitty's Nip: catnip good enough to feel like a gift, for the cat and the human handing it over.
Four things we refuse to compromise on.
Organically grown
Organically grown in Washington State, the slow, clean way, without pesticides.
Pure leaf & flower
We keep the pure leaf and flower, the part cats actually respond to, and leave the woody stems out.
Packed by hand
Small batches, sealed fresh, so every tin is as potent as the last.
Cats come first
If it wouldn't pass our own cat's bar, it doesn't make it into a tin.
We didn't want to sell catnip. We wanted to make the one tin a cat would pick over everything else in the room.
Kitty's Nip is small on purpose. Every tin is sorted and sealed by hand, by a real person who cares whether your cat actually loves it. For me it became a little ritual with my cat, Kitty: a couple taps on the tin and he comes running, goes happily nuts for a few minutes, then plops down next to me to sleep it off. Those small moments are the whole reason I make this.
While fostering adoptable kitties, I've even watched a little catnip help shy cats relax and start to come out of their shell, a low-pressure way to share a good moment and build some trust. Not every cat responds, but when they do, it's a small kind of magic. And if your cat isn't into it, I want to hear about it, and I'll make it right. Thanks for letting us be part of your cat's good day.
<3 Kels
Founder · Kitty's Nip · with Kitty, chief taste-tester
