Miss Expatriate and I wandered into the local pet store after dinner and started perusing the cat section to find some treats for our cat. We ended up finding some small twigs from a Japanese tree, which are apparently wildly popular with cats.
Our cat really loves them – like catnip, but without a mess and it lasts longer. She’s been playing with it for a while now. In case you can’t read the upper corner, here’s a closeup:
It says “Tree of Silvernine for cats which they love most.” I figured that was Engrishy enough to warrant a post.
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The product is called “Matatabi no Ki” またたびのき, aka “Silver vine tree”, which is also called “catnip”. The Japanese writing underneath the name assures you it provides all-purpose ease and comfort for cats. The rest of the packaging promises that it will keep your cat happy and active the whole day, which seems to be case judging from your post.
BTW, I’m the guy who went hiking with Micheal “View from Taiwan” Turton the other day in Dakeng. If you’re coming to Taichung from Yunlin, you would get off the No. 1 Freeway, and drive on Jhonggang Road to Wensin Road, then make a left. To get to the main hiking trails in the Dakeng area (Nos. 1-4), you basically keep on Wensin Road until it becomes Dongshan Road. As you enter the mountains, you need to keep a sharp eye out for the small brown, wooden signs that tell you where to turn off for the trails.
The trails (Nos. 6-10) that Michael and I were on the other day are much shorter, and in a different location, than the ones above. Getting to them is much harder to describe, so if you’d like to send me an email, I could try and give you the detailed directions:
kaminoge@yahoo.com
Awesome! Thanks for the information, both for my cat and the upcoming hike!