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Stella, she'll sort of lull you in, and then suddenly, apropos of nothing,

she'll bite you.

Oh! No, no, no, no! Oh, no!

I am a six -foot, 200 -pound guy.

I am afraid of this death.

Ow! Rob and I really, really want a family, and we're not able to bring a

into the household the way that it is.

Mr. Fluff is a terror. He's so sedentary, and then...

He snaps and he just goes crazy.

He will definitely attack us.

If Mr. Fluff can't get help, then moving out is the only solution.

I'm Jackson Galaxy. I'm a musician by night and a cat behaviorist by day.

I've met cats with all kinds of problems.

but I've never met one I couldn't help.

In my career, I've worked with thousands of cats one -on -one, analyzing their

behaviors and retraining them and their guardians.

When relationships are at an end, I feel like I have to choose between my best

friends. and cat guardians have reached their emotional limit, It's the end of

the line. I'm their last hope.

I think your fear feeds the dynamic between the two of you.

Cats have nine lives, but humans only have one.

I am afraid of

this cat.

Rob and Stephanie sent me in a video of their cat Stella, and they say that

Stella is stopping them from having a family.

Fighting, hissing.

Wow. Wow.

Keen on things.

Ooh. Be nice, Daddy.

Wow. We both really, really want a family.

I'm Rob.

I'm Stephanie.

And we met outside a bar, and it was love at first sight for both of us.

And we got married three and a half years ago.

We're best friends. We're dorks. We're dorks together. We are best friends,

yeah. I sort of adopted.

Stella, which was her first cat.

We also have three other cats and two dogs.

And we have a really, really happy home.

Except for one thing.

Stella's problems right now are biting, hissing, peeing on things.

I am a six -foot, 200 -pound guy.

I am afraid of this cat.

She'll sort of lull you in. She'll rub up against you. And then suddenly,

apropos of nothing, she'll bite you.

Ow!

Crap. We're really at the point where we don't know what to do. At this time,

we're not able to bring a baby into the household the way that it is with

Stella.

We both really, really want a family.

I think if we didn't have Stella, we would have a family by now.

And it's really hard to hear my parents, his parents, telling us that we need to

give her away.

The way we look at it, she's a member of our family.

She's a child.

If we had to give Stella away, my dad won't take her, my mom won't take her,

parents won't take her, my brother won't take her. No one likes her.

So the shelter really would be like her.

I can't even imagine thinking about that, you know?

So, yeah.

So Jackson really is our last resort here.

I'm about to go in and meet Rob and Stephanie, and I've watched the video. I

mean, she attacks them, she has them in fear, and I don't blame them for

thinking twice about having a baby right about now.

Hi!

He walked in the door and I saw him.

Pretty sizable guy with a bright pink shirt, tattoos, earrings, and I thought

someone had the wrong, uh, address.

Well, uh, we have a number of animals here. Everybody gets along really well,

except for Stella. Okay. Who, in addition to being extremely destructive,

ripping up furniture, clawing furniture, urinating, marking her territory, so on

and so forth.

She is also completely alienated from all the other animals.

When Stella started experiencing other cats, did her behavior get exponentially

worse? She's gotten worse. Every time you had another cat.

We'd like to have children.

It is pretty much an impossibility to bring an infant into the same

as Stella.

Because of the violence?

Because of the aggressiveness.

I can remember being like... 13 years old, and it's Parents' Day at school,

everybody's parents look the same, but then there's one friend of yours whose

dad is like 65.

I don't want to be that funky old dad because my cat won't let me have a kid.

All right, so it's about that time for me to see the rest of the house. You got

some damage for me to see, I assume.

Oh. We do.

And hopefully I get to meet Stella.

Absolutely. All right, let's do it. Let's do it.

The first thing I see in the living room.

It's all of this wrapped up furniture.

This is how it was delivered to this house four and a half years ago. So

that scared that you've never even, like... I'm not scared. I just don't

want to see it destroyed.

In four plus years, they've never been able to enjoy what should be their home,

and it's all because of Stella?

That's just not right.

All right, well, I've seen everything that I need to see here.

Show me the rest of the house.

Okay. Sounds good. Okay.

You can definitely...

Smell the the cat you're here actually come down it gets worse. Oh, yeah, it's

like going into Dante's Inferno of piss the smell in that room will knock you

off your feet Take a good deep breath in here. What do you smell?

That's horrible. It is horrible Yeah,

please you want to say okay? Well, this is covered and is completely

Stain all the way.

And then the real piece de resistance is here. So that's what I'm seeing here?

That is all Stella's.

There is a really important thing that we have to look at. She has created

Stellaland. To me, it's really sad. She urinates because she's anxious, and then

she's scratching at the carpet because she wants Rob and Stephanie to know, I

exist, I live here. She makes the rounds with her pee to say, Let's just make

sure this is Stella Land. We have to assure her.

Yes, it's Stella Land. We promise. You don't have to take it. It's given. The

thing about Stella is that, yes, she's very territorially insecure, but it's

justified because she lives in a house full of animals and people, and they're

going to have a baby too. Poor Stella.

There she is. I would like to see you guys interact with her. Touch her the

you normally would.

Hi. Hi, Stella.

See, she's being very nice.

See, she's starting to get a little... See, there we go, and a kiss.

But she just rolled over.

See,

now she's in a mood.

Apropos of nothing.

Well, Rob was kind of fond of saying that she strikes out apropos of nothing.

I was relieved to find out that that wasn't the case.

She acts out when she's provoked.

Now, see how she lets me pet her there? Now watch this.

I go back here.

Do you see? Yeah.

Okay. She had a fall where we don't know what happened to her. She came home

with a big cut right next to her tail and took her to the vet. There was no

broken bones.

I've known many cats who haven't actually broken anything, but as they

older, they become arthritic around those areas.

She might have a little. She just has some pain. And if she has pain, then

time you guys go to touch her back here, it's ouch.

Gotcha. I got to make sure she's not suffering either from arthritis or from

some lingering pain from the accident she had years ago.

What I see is a cat who territorially feels like she doesn't have a place.

I used to own, now I don't own, pee, now I do. And we're going to solve that,

okay? Now, let's talk homework, okay?

The first thing that we're going to do, I really want a lot of litter boxes

downstairs.

between six and eight litter boxes. Oh, no. It's totally cool because the thing

is, in your house is one huge litter box right now. You've got a point. I just

want her peeing in a box. So something else I really want to do, I've felt

Stella's rear area. I don't like the way she's holding her tail. I think that

it's important that we do get her checked out.

Now, the last thing that I've got, she has no height. We talked about being

surrounded on the floor and not being able to claim that floor anymore.

The thing is, you guys have a beautiful, big house. It needs to be catified.

Okay. We're going to have cat furniture and shelving in here. I want her to be

able to traverse this room without touching the floor.

He likes it.

All right, so I am going to let you get to work. All right.

We have a lot of work to do. I know you do.

All right, guys.

It's real now that Jackson's here, but I'm a little fearful of the changes that

are going to be coming in the future. Just because I'm so used to Stella the

that she's been for eight years and the way that I've handled her and how Rob's

handled her, I guess I'm a little nervous to know if it's going to work.

So I'm here for my second visit with Rob and Stephanie. And listen, the last

time I was here, Stella was a complete nightmare.

She had these guys convinced they couldn't even have a baby around her.

So, I'm really anxious to see how things are going to be this time around.

We put some cat furniture up. Yeah. Which I think has been used.

Good, good.

We cleaned up the pee, and there was a lot of it. And we also implemented

putting out extra litter boxes. And, of course, the big thing, getting the

results back from...

of that she had some kind of unknown trauma we don't know the source of it

there's a laceration that she spoke of i'm seeing what looks like some mild

arthritic changes there so i'm going to plan on doing next is putting stella on

acupuncture treatment and also an oral joint supplement Those are going to help

to make her joints healthier and safely reduce inflammation.

Have you noticed any change in her overall demeanor? Yeah. I think she's

more calm and a little bit more at ease.

I love that you guys have started to address this.

But we had talked about shelving last time. There's no shelving going on. So

tell me why.

Well, to be honest with you, I didn't really dig the aesthetic.

One thing that really upset me was coming into Rob and Stephanie's house

seeing that Rob hadn't even attempted to put up some shelving.

The idea of having it on the wall was sort of problematic.

Now, I'm doing this for Stella's well -being. I want to see her be the cat

she can be. I want to see her up off the floor, not competing for space with the

other animals.

I'm hoping that the next time I come back here, I see those shelves up on the

wall. Now, just to reiterate how much I love this thing, the great thing about

this, I just love the stepping up thing. For Stella, at this point, we're going

to get her pain managed, and we're also going to still allow her to get up and

see the world away from dogs and away from other cats and survey her

Let's go check out downstairs the den and all the other good stuff, okay? All

right. Jackson actually liked the cat tree that we picked out because it had

different levels, and there was a low level for Stella to go on. So far, we've

done a good job.

Okay. Smells a little better.

I can still smell it. You can still totally smell it in here.

Now, the first thing I noticed when I walked downstairs was being smacked in

face, almost just like last time with that smell.

Obviously, they didn't clean as well as they could have.

But let's go on to the good stuff. I love this box.

Okay, good. That's a great box.

I love this one. I love the fact that you guys listen to me. Clean that place

a little bit and put out litter boxes. It goes a long way.

Just in those.

You know, past couple of days, I've noticed things have really improved.

I remember last time she really was lunging at Rob and striking and

and causing you to bleed, and this time she just seemed kind of content.

The progress is amazing.

Why,

you don't like that?

She did have a moment. Yeah, she had a moment.

So this area here represents trauma, right?

Yeah. But that, what I'm getting from her right now, is saying, buddy,

Trying to warn you? I've hurt myself.

Oh, now she's like, I'm out of here.

Exactly. She wouldn't have done it five minutes ago. Now we put her in a place

where we activated the trauma. Okay, so that's where maybe she's... See? We got

tail going now.

We got...

removal from the situation.

I'm going to go over here. We got the twitching in the back.

She is like a walking feline textbook right now of what it looks like to be

activated. When you're in a room with a cat and she's sitting there with her

back away from you, it tells you a very clear message, which is, I don't want to

be a part of this. I'm removing myself from this. So if I don't look at it,

not there.

Hi, Pumpkin. It's okay. I'm sorry.

It's okay, Stella.

I'm sorry. So what is this? Now she's putting her tail up?

She's trying.

She's trying to shake it off. Come on. That is a big difference. The Stella

I met last time I was here would do nothing like this. She was about living

that moment. Good girl. She was about living in the moment of being pissed off

and grouchy.

I'm very sorry, sweet baby. I'm sorry.

You're trying hard, aren't you? It's okay, baby doll. We're laying the

foundation here to build a better cat, a better Stella. We want Stella to be at

a place where she can accept touch, where she can accept company, so that we

think about bringing a baby into this home as well. And I think, again, we're

not all the way there. We're halfway there.

Wow. I bear gifts.

That looks like art.

It is art.

It is. And it's functional art, which is the best kind of art. Wow. I've never

seen scratching posts like this. Now here, let me show you. We're going to

leading her towards places where we want her to scratch.

This will be one of those things. So you can put this on either side of your new

furniture, and that'll be our way of saying, yes, I want you to go here. Now

second one, I chose this one because, A, it's horizontal.

The other thing I was thinking was, well, If they go for furniture, couches,

they want to scratch horizontally on these things, I want to give them their

piece of furniture.

Sometimes I'm really surprised by the lengths that people will go to keep

safe. Like Rob will sit there and wrap his furniture and not have seen it in

four years.

Yet there's not one scratching surface in that house where the cats can go.

Rob, this is where it becomes really important for you because I will not

until you uncover some of this furniture.

But in order to do that, we have to have the yes established by next time I'm

here. But as long as we can say to them, no, not on this, yes on this. That's

all we care about, okay? So it's a big deal. You got a good deal of work coming

up.

Shelves?

Shelves. You're going to love them.

So the first time that I was here, you guys were pretty scared about having a

child, bringing a child into this situation with Stella.

It's important for me to know where you're standing right now.

We got a ways to go. We do have a ways to go.

I'm very hopeful, and I see the light. We're laying the foundation, and like

said, Rob, we're halfway.

We've got a ways to go.

All right, guys.

We'll talk to you soon. Thank you. All right.

At this rate, I might actually have a kid while I'm still in my prime.

We'll see. We got our fingers crossed.

And now it's time for a kiddie bit.

A cat can sense whether a woman is pregnant.

True or false?

Find out after the break.

A cat can sense whether a woman is pregnant.

True or false?

True. Cats are very sensitive to scent, so they can detect the hormonal changes

and new pheromones in a pregnant woman.

I'm coming in for my last visit with Rob and Stephanie.

Now, they...

We're doing great work, but they still had stuff to do. David!

How are you? What I really hope to see this time was that shelving unit.

I'm just hoping Rob embraces that concept and he's going to move forward

it. Wow!

Tell me what's up. Well, Stella has been a much more mellow little feline.

We took her to the doctor.

So I'm just going to gently insert.

Okay.

And the acupuncture, like, worked.

So far, so good.

I haven't gotten scratched.

She's been great, but she did have a moment, and it was like she was kind of

annoyed with me.

Ow, ow, ow, ow. You know, we've had some rainy days.

We know now that she's arthritic. The barometric pressure drops, and it just

puts pressure on things like arthritic joints. She's going to have grouchy

She's going to be sore.

Yeah.

What else? I steam cleaned the carpet. Oh, that's the big thing. Like the

thing.

Very cool. So we're better on that whole area downstairs. Now, I just got to

turn my attention to this.

First of all, thank you. These shelves, they were beautiful looking, and they

were functional looking.

I think this is amazing looking.

I love that. They're using that scratching area. They haven't scratched

plastic on the furniture.

They haven't gone through anything.

Now, it's time, Rob. Let's do this. Come on. The biggest thing that I wanted to

do, the thing that I wanted to leave these guys with, was being able to take

this plastic off this furniture. I don't even remember what it looks like. And

today was our day. Should we do it? Yeah, let's just take it off.

Wow. Oh, it's pretty. It's lovely.

Great. This is really a nice piece of furniture.

Oh, that's a nice chair.

I'm so excited that Rob actually embraced this process.

As always, I wanted to take a tour of the house to see how the progress was.

The first place we stopped was the den.

Does it smell better?

Give me a second here.

It smells better to me.

A little bit? First of all, you have to do my little walkabout.

See, this was the place from hell right here. Yeah, and we probably still have

to replace that little corner.

You know what?

There's a huge difference in here.

It smells amazingly better in here.

Rob and Stephanie steam cleaned the carpet, but they also used an enzymatic

cleaner. An enzymatic cleaner is a biodegradable, non -toxic cleaning agent

breaks down protein -based... The energy in here is completely different. The

thing I was looking forward to the most was, of course, spending some time with

Stella. Look who it is, Stella.

Oh, hi, baby doll.

Stella.

The fact that she's seeking attention from you is just beautiful.

Her aggressiveness has diminished significantly.

I haven't been bitten or scratched once in the past, I don't know, the last

time. There was such a massive change in Stella from first time to the last

time. Hello, my lovely.

This time, she was just bouncing around from person to person. Hi.

And owning the room confidently.

Give me some pudding.

And that's all I wanted for her.

This is the good little girl that we both knew was there.

The change I've seen in Stella before you got here, she's really

unhappy.

Ow! And now she is much more at peace here.

I can't believe we're at the end of this experience, but it's actually really

just the beginning.

Hi, beautiful girl.

Stella has come out of her shell a little bit, and I feel like we're all a

family, and that's so important because that's really what we wanted. We wanted

this family to be one and to be whole.

Hopefully she'll let us have a baby and be okay with that.

And I think we're just going to start giving it a shot.

Thank you, Jackson, for putting our family back together.

We've been together for two years and nothing's gotten better.

Mr. Fluff will definitely attack us.

If Mr. Fluff can't get help, then moving out is the only

solution.

Now I'm heading over to Jessica and Cameron's house right now. They have got

big Maine Coon. And with a super -sized cat, sometimes come super -sized

problems.

Their cat is big and aggressive.

He just got me really, really bad. We both have him.

He's a big cat. He's only 20 pounds.

When a cat that size takes a swipe at you, it's got to feel like a fist.

If Mr. Fluff can't get help, then my moving out pretty much is the only...

What a mess.

I better get over there and help them out.

I'm Jessica.

I'm Cameron.

We've been together for about two years, living together also about two years.

Our relationship is very strong, but one of the main causes of most

disagreements comes from Mr. Fluff.

Mr. Fluff is my cat. I found him in downtown Los Angeles during the rainy

season, and he was a homeless street cat.

He seemed really well -behaved until about a week into him being there. Then,

like, the demon kitty kind of came out.

No. Fluff, no. Now he's like this big old fat cat. He's got a bad attitude.

Mr. Fluff will definitely attack us.

Fluff, no. Fluff, no.

We both have him.

Fluff.

Matching battle wounds.

He's just so sedentary and then...

He snaps and he just goes crazy.

Rips up the carpet, rips up the couch, the screen, runs up and down the stairs.

If you're coming from around the corner, he's like hunting you.

Then you go in to pet his head and he jumps up. He'll literally get on his

legs and he'll jump up. And if you leave it there too long, he'll grab you.

When Mr. Fluff acts up, I will give him treats.

That's just what I've done for so long, and it's how I get him to stop.

Me, I'm a little more strict.

Cameron threatens him with the pillow, and Cameron does not ever hit him with

the pillow, but that's so scary. Imagine being the cat.

Imagine being me, getting attacked all the time. I know, but I still disagree

with doing that.

The problem with Mr. Fluff is just him keeping us from sleeping at night. We've

been together for two years, and it's just been like...

Nothing's gotten better. We need something to happen now.

If Mr. Fluff can't get help, then I may have to move out.

Hi. Hey.

Jessica. Jessica.

Cameron. Hey, Cameron. I'm Jackson. Good to meet you guys.

Obviously, I'm here because of him.

Mr. Fluff is a terror.

I mean, he's totally become a strain on our relationship due to the fact that

every time we try to go to sleep, he always attacks us, especially Cameron

Fluff. We have a lot of tension between them. As soon as the lights go out, he's

got to run to the bed so that we can try to avoid his...

So one of us will get in and the other one will turn off the light and try to

make it without getting mauled. So that's pretty much like a race every

And you've been having trouble with scratching too?

Oh yeah, he like destroys our home, our furniture, any screen doors we have.

Not only is it just stressful dealing with what he does to us, it's like

a stress to deal with, you know, well I think that I should be the iron fist and

she's the velvet glove. So it's like this whole conflict.

Because Cameron is... Very very aggressive in the way that he deals with

and I am very loving It's the constant stressor to come home

to Fluff aggression and having to like you know tiptoe around or feel like I'm

walking on eggshells in my own house for cat Okay, I feel so torn and so sad

about it. I mean I will never give up fluff I will never bring him to a pound

give him away The only solution is I just have to find some other living

situation.

Time is ticking then, huh?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So let's get to work.

The stakes are huge here.

Either this gets fixed or Cameron said, I'm going to find another place to live.

The pressure's high for me and for Mr. Fluff.

You can see right there is like a really deep scratch that he did, which doesn't

even look like anyone could do that. I mean, it scares me. I have never seen a

scratch that deep from a cat before. Now, a big cat can do a lot of damage,

I've got to find a way for Mr. Fluff to expend his energy on something besides

the furniture, the carpet, and the wall.

So, I want to recreate the whole ritual that you were describing. One of you

guys goes to the bed. Yeah, I'm usually the first one to bed. Usually the one.

I pry myself, hit the switch, run, and we have to try to get towards the center

of the bed.

He'll go crazy. He's literally like jumping at our feet. He'll run around

apartment. He'll drop things over. And we just have to try to not move, not

a sound, so that eventually it'll stop.

This is what you go through every night?

Yeah, pretty much.

That bedroom scenario that I watched was one of the most insane rituals around a

cat that I have ever seen in my life.

This is Fluff's punishment for bad behavior is mounds and mounds of food.

He's free fed all day. I always leave him a bowl of dry food. But he does

eat. Like when he gets annoyed or something, you'll see him always come

just start taking mounds full of food.

And then I'll give him one can of wet food a night. Okay. And then treats.

He's a big boy.

Yeah. And I'll stop being gentle. He's fat.

When cats are obese, they're carrying around extra weights naturally on their

joints. When they're carrying around that extra weight on their joints, it

make them irritable. That could be part of the reason we're seeing so much

aggression out of Mr. Fluff.

Right now, I want to see what happens in your normal everyday interactions with

him. How would you get him out? If you need to get him out right now, I need to

see that.

Come on, pup.

I know.

I know, I know, I know.

Uh -oh.

This movement, going to a cat and going over their head like that, is a physical

manifestation of fear and distrust.

Over the top is almost like I expect you to do bad things. When you expect bad

things, bad things happen.

What's that?

What is that?

Maine Coons were bred in the Northeast to do one thing and one thing only, and

that was to protect grain stores.

They said, wait a minute, you guys can kill vermin? Yes, we can kill vermin.

Well, then you can hang around.

Now, he's obviously a professional mouser because he just grabbed it with

hand and it would have been dead.

What we're going to be doing is expending his energy. The energy that he

all night long torturing you guys, he's got to be torturing these things.

I want him to do what he does naturally to hold you hostage, but this time you

hold the cards.

Okay. A Maine Coon is uniquely conditioned to do this hunting. So

let's pay attention to it. Let's play into it. And at the same time, we're

to exercise him in a very condensed...

aerobically fulfilling way so that he loses some weight too. Okay. I'm excited

to give you a course of action. So let me sit down here and start talking to

about what we're going to do.

The first thing that we have to move toward is a scheduled feeding time.

He's obese.

What we want to do is get two meals a day instead of what you got out there,

which is constant grazing. Cats aren't naturally grazing animals.

Also, food has got to be a tool.

What you're doing is rewarding bad behavior.

Basically, he's saying, wait a minute, if I do this, I get this. You have now

trained him to pretty much attack you. Crazy part about this is you have also

trained him to attack you. The pillow is a game.

The switch and dive into the bed is a game.

You are teaching the hunter to hunt something. Your job, as we're going to

forward, is to keep him active in his job.

Playtime into feeding time, feeding time into sleeping time.

His rhythms will start to reset over the course of the week.

Also, because Mr. Bluff has so much pent -up energy, playing with him on a daily

basis may help stop some of his destructive behaviors, like scratching

carpet and furniture.

That's it in a nutshell.

You guys ready?

We are ready.

Good. Take it on. I will see you guys next week.

Perfect. All right, guys. Take care. Thanks, Jackson. Bye -bye.

What I'm really expecting from this first week is a true commitment to

They can get into the groove with Mr. Fluff. He's going to reward them. I feel

like this is our only solution, so everything's riding on this, and I'm

really hopeful that everything turns out.

I'm going to Jessica and Cameron's house for my second visit. Now, the last time

I was here, Mr. Fluff was such a terror that Cameron was actually considering

moving out.

Hi. Hey.

Welcome. Come in. How are you doing?

Good. How are you?

Not bad.

On the video journaling for Jessica and Cameron, actually, I was really

impressed with what I saw.

Cameron and Mr. Fluff seem to have formed a bond together, and that's

he's playing with him on a regular basis. And just as I suspected, our

professional mouser loves his mouse toy.

Chasing mice is in Mr. Fluff's DNA, so what better way to satisfy that need to

hunt than to chase a mouse toy? How have things been?

It's definitely made a difference with just the few suggestions that you've

us. Okay.

After you came last time was one of the first times to actually slept through

the night by the bed and didn't mess with us at all. He allowed you to sleep

that night. Did he allow you to get into bed?

Yeah, he did. I think it's, I think he was exhausted.

He needs to not be hyper when we're going to sleep. Yeah. Tucker him out.

Jessica and Cameron had this insane ritual of running away from Mr. Fluff

bed every night. The first night after I left, they played with Mr. Fluff before

bed and he went straight to sleep. So it looks like the play sessions are really

working. So now tell me about since then trying to establish a routine so that

his body is ready for certain things at certain times. Yeah.

One thing he's still doing is getting up on the bed and patting my face when I'm

sleeping, like when he's ready for me to get up. He's like, it's breakfast.

So you've eliminated free feeding?

Yes. You guys rock. That's amazing that you did that so fast. And he's responded

to it obviously well. Yeah. Because now he's got a schedule that he's adhering

to. I mean, I'll still bring him, like from work, I'll bring him home chicken

something like that, or we'll give him treats.

Treats?

I want to establish a routine for Mr. Fluff. I want to see him eating twice a

day and only twice a day. Now, once this routine is established, then Jessica

can give him treats when it's appropriate. But for right now, I want

strict plan.

No more treats?

We still have a serious problem on our hands. He's still fat.

Tell me what's going on otherwise. Anything?

Well, he still does the scratching thing.

Always on the couch. Usually the couch, the side of the couch. She does it a

lot. Now, of course, we have a lot of the officials here.

Just, I mean, all over, both sides of it. Both sides.

Cameron, I see that you're a little more worked up about the scratching and

jumping. Is this your couch?

We bought it together.

Oh, you did? I paid for most of it. I like how you remember that.

Well, the scratching is what brings it to memory. Otherwise, it wouldn't

Sometimes that's what comes with having a pet.

Which is true, but... It's funny the way resentments poke their heads up over

the smallest things, or what you'd think are the smallest things. When I was

asking Jessica and Cameron about the couch, and I said, is this a couch that

came into the relationship with you? He said, no, we bought it together.

I paid for it.

That's where resentments come from.

Since we have him almost in the same spot as we did last time, Cameron, I'd

to see how you approach him physically.

Can we see that?

All right.

So as opposed to before, I would try and sneak up around his collar and try to

avoid getting bit.

He really likes the under the chin. You can see he responds to it really well.

Like in the middle of the chest, he kind of likes it, so it's a little more

relaxed. Last time, it wasn't as pretty, you know, bite and scratch marks.

Now I've, you know, figured out how to kind of approach him with more trust

you know, kind of rub under his neck and everything.

This time I think you have a different tool than you had last time, which

what? Toys, maybe.

Oh, yeah.

Get him out.

He really likes when you move it slow and have it peek from, like, disappear

behind a corner, so.

You have to be patient.

I've got his attention now, but to make it disappear behind the corner, I might

be a little more willing to come after it. Nice going.

Nice going, man. That was great.

That was perfect.

Cameron pulled out Mr. Fluff's favorite mouth toy, and it took five seconds, and

that cat was out like a shot. It was a brilliant moment.

The way you made that disappear, the way you got him out of there, with him

thinking that it was all his idea, now you're thinking cat, right? Now you're

thinking cat. That was brilliant.

Okay.

It is time for the scratching to stop and start at the same time.

I think that this one's really going to work well for him. So let's make this

his bed, and let's bring this upstairs for him.

What's this, Bubba?

Oh, you're ahead of me. Come on.

Good boy.

Come here, Bubba.

I just want to put it right here.

Fluff.

And kaboom.

Good boy.

Not only is it going to be a place where he can sleep, he can also sort of see

you, and he puts down scratching scent and sight markers, and that way he owns

this bed without actually having to do something to your bed. Yeah.

Right? Let's go back on downstairs.

All right, so let me run it down really quickly. This is your homework for the

next couple weeks.

I want you to work on getting other types of products for him to scratch on.

Scratchers that serve a double purpose, that he can lay on and he can also

scratch because then we're taking care of the horizontal surfaces that he tends

to go for. We're going to strike treats.

No more nonsense. I think it's very feasible with the diet that he's on, the

very healthy, high -protein diet, what we call the Katkins diet. I can easily

see about a pound, maybe even a little bit more come off.

The truth was, if you couldn't get some rest, if you couldn't live kind of

unmolested by Mr. Fluff, that you guys were actually thinking about living

separately.

Have you had more discussions about that? I mean, it's definitely a big

easier but it's not exactly where i want to be as far as a living situation

what you're going to do over the next couple weeks is taking us around the

stretch remember you're only halfway there thank you so much i'll talk to you

guys real soon okay thanks later i really didn't like hearing that

where he wants to be in his living situation i mean i don't want cameron

out over the cat so i'm really hoping that all the hard work they're putting

right now Pays off the next time I come over.

I'm going in for my final visit with Cameron and Jessica.

First of all, I hope that she's not feeding him as much as she was before.

regulating him. And I'm hoping, for the sake of Jessica and Cameron's

relationship, that Mr. Fluff is no longer terrorizing them at night the way

used to. The first time that I came here, I had you guys sort of demonstrate

that weird routine that you had to do with him.

How's that going?

I'd say the last time he's done it is probably just before your last visit.

I can actually confidently turn off the light, not worry about him lurking

behind a corner.

You know, he's got his bed up here if he wants. He's got a scratcher down there.

He's got so many vices now. And it's just like all the puzzle pieces fell in

together. I didn't even realize it until, like, you know, turn off the

not have to feel nervous. And it was almost kind of like a foreign feeling. I

was like, something's different.

Like, I don't know what it is. And I get in the bed and you're like.

Oh, yeah, I'm not bleeding. Yeah, yeah.

You're not being held hostage, which was such a huge problem.

Yeah. Really, really, really happy. Good work. Good work.

All right, let's go head downstairs. I wanted to check in on a few more things.

This has been the scene of the crime many times over for us. The first time I

came in here, I asked you to get rid of treats at this point. You rid of the

treats? Well, we still have the dry ones.

Seriously, where is it?

Where is it?

That's human.

No.

Yeah, I'm not.

Jessica.

When Jackson went in the kitchen and found the treats, I felt like I had been

caught red -handed. I didn't know what to say.

This is leaving this house with me. Okay. Now.

We've been working for over a month to get Mr. Fluff into fighting shape, and

he's looking so much better. He's lost over a pound. His coat is shiny. It's

smooth. Now, why does Jessica still think it's necessary to have junk food

him in the cabinet?

Make a promise to me, right? Because I made you make this promise twice now.

Are you promising me?

I promise, yes.

Thank you. All right, let's go.

Let me show you something else.

I asked Jessica and Cameron to explore a variety of different scratchers, and it

seems like Mr. Fluff really likes the horizontal one. So I had them add an

scratcher by the couch.

He's one of those guys, man. All you've got to do is point the way to him, and

he's in. This is day and night.

This is one of those, now, let's see if we can do a happily ever after, what it

would look like.

That's what it looks like, you know?

You know, now that Jackson's come into the picture, there's just...

No more anxiety and stress and disagreements on how to deal with Fluff.

I feel like it's light years of a difference.

You know, the first day that I was here, we had to pull him out from different

places. We don't have to pull him out today. That's what a content cat looks

like. I would say the best part of this whole experience is that our

relationship is salvaged.

All three of us, Fluff and Jessica and I, we're all one happy family now.

I don't have to worry about moving out.

Yeah. We'll see you later. Bye.

Bye -bye.

This is proof positive. You fixed the cat -to -human dynamic.

You fixed the human -to -human dynamic.

Relationships can be fixed quickly, and this is what makes for a happily ever

after.