What do Kats drink?

Answer 1

Hey! I drink mojitos as often as possible. Failing that a nice saucer of milk does the trick...

Answer 2

KAT contains ephedrinelike compounds Lewin (1931) gave a brief account of kat and how it was used. Apparently it was taken socially to produce excitation, banish sleep, and promote communication. It was used as a stimulant to dispel feelings of hunger and fatigue.

The natives chewed young buds and fresh leaves of catha edulis (Celastrus edulis). This is a large shrub which can grow to tree size. It originated in Ethiopia and spread until its use covered Kenya, Nyasaland [now Malawi], Uganda, Tanganyika [now Tanzania], Arabia, the Congo, Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe and Zambia], and South Africa. The kat trees are grown interspersed between coffee trees.

Kat was used in Yemen even before coffee and it was immensely popular. Lewin described kat markets to which kat was brought in bundles of branches from the mountains.

Kat contains cathine (d-norisoephedrine), cathidine, and cathinine Cathine is also one of the alkaloids found in Ephedra vulgaris It is fortunate, perhaps, that kat is also very rich in ascorbic acid which is an excellent antidote to amphetamine-type compounds.

In animals, kat produces excitation and increased motor activity. In humans, it is a stimulant producing a feeling of exaltation, a feeling of being liberated from space and time. It may produce extreme loquacity, inane laughing, and eventually semicoma. It may also be an euphorient and used chronically can lead to a form of delirium tremens. Galkin and Mironychev (1964) reported that up to 80% of the adult population of Yemen use kat. Upon first chewing kat, the initial effects were unpleasant and included dizziness, lassitude, tachycardia, and sometimes epigastric pain. Gradually more pleasant feelings replaced these inaugural symptoms. The subjects had feelings of bliss, clarity of thought, and became euphoric and overly energetic. Sometimes kat produced depression, sleepiness, and then deep sleep. The chronic user tended to be euphoric continually. In rare cases the subjects became aggressive and overexcited. Galkin and his colleague observed 51 subjects who had taken kat. Of these, 27 became excited, 18 became somnolent, and 6 remained unchanged. The respiratory rate and pulse rate were accelerated and the blood pressure tended to rise. The subjects also had a decrease in the functional capacity of the cardiovascular system.

Which all leads me to suspect it being a plant, that it drinks water!

Answer 3

I know what a cat is but what's a kat?

Answer 4

I think they like a mixture of Martian and Smurf cocktails served in a basket.

Answer 5

Milc

Answer 6

Sometimes they drink, from my hose ! Depends on their mood, often they have a headache !!

Answer 7

Depends on what Kits are having.

Answer 8

Milk and water.

Answer 9

I'm with the mojito lady.

Answer 10

kats?