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Big boy is a monster. He attacks both of us.

He has completely ruined our social lives.

I think I'm good. Big boy, stop it.

He ultimately was why me and my ex -boyfriend broke up.

God,

that really hurt.

I am afraid that Nicole is becoming the crazy cat lady.

She needs to shape up or I'm shipping out.

I feel like Pump is purposely antagonizing me.

I call myself a vibrational therapist, and it's like this constant battle with

my room.

I've given Luke an ultimatum that either we fix Pump's behavior or he's got to

go.

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.

Oh, hello. 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 don't have many more options than to

leave. And cat guardians have reached their emotional limit. Just get rid of

her. I'm their last hope.

Are you all right? Sorry, I don't know. Cats have nine lives, but humans only

have one.

Whoa!

Good boy.

seen Nicole and Shoshana. They've got a cat named Big Boy, and Big Boy's

aggressive tendencies are getting so in the way that they're socializing, taking

a hit. They don't even have friends come over anymore.

I'm going over right now to see if I can help them get social back in their

lives.

My name's Nicole.

My name's Shoshana.

Shoshana and I have been best friends for about four years, and we've lived

together for two years.

We have two cats.

Cutie and Big Boy.

Cutie is Big Boy's mother. She was a stray cat. We noticed she was pregnant,

we let her come in our apartment.

She gave birth in my bedroom.

All the kittens died within a week, and Big Boy was the only survivor.

It was very traumatic for the both of us.

But it turns out that he is horrible.

He's a monster. He attacks both of us.

He attacks Cutie. Big boy, stop it!

He climbed all over the door, all over the window, and he breaks out of the

house.

He peed and pooped on everything.

Poop and piss.

He's horrible.

Our friends are very afraid of Big Boy.

Big Boy.

He has completely ruined our social life.

I can't have dates over.

She can't have dates over.

He ultimately was why me and my ex -boyfriend broke up.

What's wrong, big boy?

Unfortunately, Cutie's just had another litter of kittens. Now there's seven

cats in the house.

And it's very stressful. It's out of control.

Kind of like we're becoming like crazy cat ladies.

Big boy, go away.

Stop it. I'm kind of just like over big boy and everything that he does. So now

I just...

walk around thinking that he doesn't really exist.

I have given Nicole an ultimatum. It's big boy or me. Big boy doesn't change,

I'm gone.

I think it's not the greatest situation I'm put in that I have to choose between

my cats and my roommate, but I'm very attached to him.

So that makes me sad because she's my best friend, so I don't want her to move

out.

Hey. How you doing? Good. Good. Come on in.

Hey. Jackson, I need my social life back.

I need my best friend back. Please help.

So, tell me why I'm here.

We have an emotionally unstable cat. Abusive towards us. Big boy attacks all

our guests. We can no longer have dates over anymore.

Nothing. Like, our social lives are ruined. Ruined. Completely ruined.

I actually...

Had invited someone to come over for dinner, and then Nicole was like, oh,

you're going to introduce him to Big Boy?

And I was like, oh, you're right. I have to cancel. I called and canceled. We

never went out again.

Huh. So you guys are arguing about this stuff? Mm -hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. Gotten pretty bad?

Like, I'm ready to move out, and it's like, Nicole, it's me or the cats. And

she's like, do what you got to do. She just doesn't care anymore.

You know, it's just all about Big Boy.

I am afraid that Nicole is becoming the definition of a crazy cat lady.

It's really scary.

And people start to think that I'm that way, too.

I'm ready to pack my bags and move.

Nicole and Shoshana are young 20 -somethings. These guys should be kind

living it up. I'm going to give this any way that I can help these guys restore

some balance in their lives, because right now, there's none.

When did he start getting aggressive towards you guys?

Maybe two or three months. Whenever he attacked his mother for the first time,

they would get in really, really scary fights.

Wow. Okay. The first nine weeks of a kitten's life are absolutely crucial in

terms of their behavior, their social learning, the cues that they have. And

without any siblings around him whatsoever, Big Boy was forced to turn

mom, Cutie, for those cues, and she rejected him. Now I'm beginning to

understand why he's just so bad around people. We do have a litter of kittens

here.

Cutie's not Spade, right?

What about Big Boy? No, he's not. No.

So Big Boy can be the dad.

He could be, yeah. Why are they intact?

I wasn't thinking this could happen again.

If it hasn't already happened, it can happen again like now.

What's your plan with the kittens, by the way? Oh, we're giving them away. I'm

definitely giving them away. Take the kittens?

Okay. It is so frustrating to see how irresponsible these girls have been with

their cats. And now they have this litter of kittens that they're just

give away.

And I can only hope.

if they're going to give them away to responsible pet guardians.

So this is where big boy, in the middle of the night, climbed on top of me and

my ex -boyfriend and peed on him.

On his chest. On his chest.

And shortly after that is when we broke up. If I've ever heard a case for

neutering a cat, that would be it. Now, why do we have this here?

That's to get out of the house.

You open the door, try to walk out. You've got to show me. I don't know what

you're doing.

So you're trying to leave the house. You do what? So I open the door.

Really? You both do that every time you leave the house? Pretty good. Pretty

good, right? It's crazy.

Yeah. The problem is he wants to get out that badly. He wants to get out that

badly because he's not neutered. And his only job in this lifetime is to

repopulate your neighborhood.

So just as I was about to ask where he was, there he is. There he is. There's

the boy.

What's up, buddy?

After touring this entire house and not seeing Big Boy once, I was getting kind

of worried that I would never see his behavior. Now is my chance to see that

aggressive behavior firsthand.

What's up, Bucky?

What's up?

I don't really want you to hide too terribly much.

So, come here.

I know you don't like it in there.

So, I'm going to come out here.

Son of a gun.

I was providing him very little escape in that very narrow kitchen, so when he

finally did get an angle, he darted. He went into Nicole's room, went under a

blanket, and just disappeared.

I'm actually really interested to watch him move around. So you guys come back

in here with me, and then we're just going to chill and wait to see what

happens. Okay.

When we had some quiet, it took minutes, and big boy came out. Oh, boy. Yeah.

He just does not understand his own body.

He doesn't speak cat even remotely.

He flunked, you know.

Watching him go after toys was amazing because it confirmed my belief that this

boy doesn't know how to speak cat.

When he hunts for a mouse, he'll take the mouse in his mouth and then he'll

immediately drop it to try to figure out what's going on because he doesn't know

how to hunt.

So, there's a couple of different layers of what we're dealing with here.

Obviously, the first layer is hormonal. The other part of him is...

He has no language of cat vocabulary, and he's just sort of making it up as he

goes along.

These are things that we can teach him, I think. But there's no way that we're

going to get anything done right now without him getting neutered and without

Cutie getting spayed.

Like today.

After he comes back and he starts to settle back into the new reality, let's

take advantage of the fact that we got a whole bunch of kittens here that are

learning by leaps and bounds every day. And this is the point in his life where

he stopped learning, right? So during play, I want to start actually getting

involved in that way, like he's the biggest second grader in the room. Let

kittens help him out with. Even though these girls still plan on giving these

kittens away, we might as well still use them while they're here and help.

Take big boy back a grade to kid in kindergarten and teach him how to

play. Also, I'm going to start re -involving you into his life. I think

important for you to start re -engaging with him because it is a way of bonding

and it's a way of proving your importance.

Okay? It does bother me having to do all this homework after I come home after a

long day of work because I just want to chill out and not have to deal with him.

But let's just see how it goes.

All right, guys. I'll see you soon. All right. Good to meet you. Take care.

We can't work on the real big boy until I see the real big boy, and I won't

until he's neutered. And I don't really trust these girls to get that job done.

I'm going in for my second visit with Shoshana and Nicole and their cat, Big

Boy. Big Boy.

Nicole and Shoshana have no social life. They couldn't even have dates come over

because of their cat.

I mean, even I got cut up by Big Boy.

I asked them to go get Big Boy neutered.

Hi. Without that being done, none of the homework that I gave them is going to

have any effect whatsoever.

So hopefully they, at the very least, did that. I'm going to go find out.

How's life in Crazy Cat Land?

Better. Let's hear about it. Tell me what's going on.

Nicole took them both to the vet.

And? Big Boy.

Cutie. Neutered.

That's fantastic.

Yeah. What about play? How's the play going with these guys? Good. And now the

kittens are like teaching him things. He's playing nicer now.

He's getting what play is. Yeah, and now it's like, oh, this is what it means

exactly to play. That's incredible. That's incredible.

Big Boy is taking cues from the kittens. So they're sort of acting as this

communicative and social bridge for him. And as long as he has that bridge, we

have hope. Now, in terms of him attacking, what's going on with that?

Well, I had a date.

Hi. Hi.

Okay, sorry, once again. Let me move him.

Big Boy, stop it. Go away.

So he had laughs.

And he never returned any of my phone calls.

Like I said the last time I was here, neutering big boys is going to solve

of the problems, but not all of them. We have to find a way to eliminate all

attacks because, after all, one attack is too many. Let's take a look around,

see what's changed since the last time I was here. And hopefully we get to run

into big boys. I haven't seen the boy since I've been here. So come on, let's

go.

Now, of course, we still have a tambourine here.

How's that looking?

He still tries to get outside, but it's not as intense.

Okay. I got something for you. This is a two -parter. Just hang here. I'm just

going to hand you something, okay?

Here is thing one.

Oh, this is so cute. So now please replace your tambourine with thing

one, please. And here is thing two.

That is so amazing.

Right?

I'm really excited about the cat tree that Jackson gave us. They're going to

love it. So on your way out the door, instead of using a tambourine now, big

treats. Just freeze -dried turkey hearts, and you get him to get up to the

here. As soon as he settles there, that's when you give him the treat, and

leave.

Also, get your friends to do it as well. When they come over.

Meat falls from the sky.

I want friends to come over, and I want Big Boy to know that good things happen

every time they come over. That's a way of reassociating relationships.

Hi, kittens.

We've got four kittens in here, and we have what?

Big Boy's in here.

Big Boy is in here? He is in here.

He's a very sneaky guy.

And I haven't gotten to see him at all.

When we saw Big Boy, I decided to take that opportunity and try to engage him

and see if the neutering had just slowed him down at all.

Good babies.

Come towards your brother.

Hello, Bubba.

What's that?

Hi.

Everybody gets to eat.

Everybody gets to eat.

You too, I know.

As I've seen before, Big Boy is clearly afraid of strangers. But instead of

lashing out aggressively like he did the last time, this time he was just

sitting calmly on the bed. Now, if we could just get him to do that, we'd show

Sean and Nicole's gift.

Okay, good.

Now with that, I can start giving you guys some homework.

So, first of all, we have the exercise in and out of the front door. Pretty

simple. Let's get that done with your friends.

The next thing is, let's talk about the kittens for a second. Are all of them

spoken for? Yes. They're going to leave in about two more weeks. Okay.

I love the fact that you've found homes for them, but let's take it that next

step. We ask them, make sure that as soon as you have them, that you're going

spay and neuter them, that you are not going to declaw them, that if...

If there is ever a problem that you call me, this is a commitment that I made as

their foster parent, and this is a commitment that I ask you to make as

adopter. If you're responsible for kittens coming into this world, and

going to adopt them out to somebody, you have to lay down the law, so to speak,

in the form of a contract. This is the bond that Shoshana and Nicole made when

they let this cat get pregnant in the first place.

Finally, one of the big issues I saw when I first met you was Shoshana, you

completely divested yourself.

from the situation.

Now, you're more bought in, right? A little. A little.

I mean, I think Shana has a better, I think she's interacting with Big Boy

better. But I think there could be more effort on her part.

How are you feeling about that, Shana?

Oh, I guess we'll see how it goes.

Big Boy's been getting better, but I'm not sure about having dates over yet,

especially after Nicole's thing with her date.

If Big Boy doesn't change, I'm gone.

We have to get you guys on the same page.

So whatever it takes over the next couple weeks, you guys work that out,

me know if there's any issues as we go, okay?

Okay. All right, guys. All right, thank you. All right, you're welcome. If

Shoshana and Nicole don't present a unified front in terms of consistency,

basically Big Boy won't get better, and there'll be resentment between the two

of them, and someone's going to move out. It's inevitable.

And now it's time for a kiddie bit.

How old was the oldest recorded cat?

A, 27, B, 29, C, 38, or D, 43?

The answer after the break.

How old was the oldest recorded cat?

And the answer is C, 38 years old. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the

cat named Cream Puff of Austin, Texas, as the oldest cat on record.

I'm heading in for my last visit with Shoshana, Nicole, and their cats, Big

and Cutie. Now, the last time I was here, the neutering took care of almost

of Big Boy's aggression except for the one directed at strangers.

So what I wanted to do was retrain Big Boy so that he would associate their

friends and, more importantly, their date with Treat.

How are you doing? Good, thank you. Come in. And finally, today with the

kittens, I want to see them go to good homes with a contract.

Hey.

How are you doing? I'm okay. How are you?

I'm okay.

I really feel like if they had just done their homework, they'd have total

success. So, has there been any attack?

Be honest with me. Anything that's been going on?

No. No.

So much better.

My God, Shoshana's petting him.

Wait, this is huge.

Oh, my goodness.

Nice.

And... I'm seeing no tambourine.

Oh, yeah, that's gone.

Gone? Yeah.

Good job, big boy.

The treat jar works.

All the guests that come over immediately go to the treats by the

job, big boy.

Great, yeah, he's just kind of a normal cat now.

One more time with that? Kind of a normal cat now. I love it. I love it.

about you guys?

We're back to being best friends again.

I'm not moving out. Nicole's so much better. Big boy's better.

We're really good. So I'm here to stay.

That's great.

Things are absolutely wonderful.

I've been going on dates.

Found a guy who loves cats.

There's actually the guy that I told you about before, but I lured him back in.

I'm glad you could meet him.

Hey, my pleasure.

This is nice.

So that's wonderful.

Yay. Yeah. Now, are the kittens still here?

They are.

They're leaving what, any day now, right?

Tonight and tomorrow.

And we talked last time about contracts and... Yeah, I've sent out numbers for

FixNation, for a vet, things about the importance of getting them spayed and

neutered immediately. And I think that will be done within...

Like a week. A week, yeah.

Everyone's committed, yeah.

Today, these kittens find a new home with adopters who have signed adoption

contracts saying that they will be spayed and neutered within the next

was really happy to see the shape these guys were in. I can definitely say that

Nicole is not going to be a crazy cat lady, and she won't end up alone.

She's going to make it.

When I first met Shoshana and Nicole, I just was kind of throwing my hands up. I

didn't think they were going to rise to the occasion, and boy, did they.

Where is Big Boy at the moment?

I believe he's under the couch.

Under the couch? Yeah.

When I come over, a lot of times he just dashes under the couch.

That's just who he is with me, and that's okay.

But I did want to say hi.

Good boy.

Obviously he's not aggressive, which is great.

I'm trying to just tell him that I'm not a threat, so I'm giving him a little

bit of that slow blink in action.

That slow eye blink that I do, what I call the cat I love you, it's basically

this way that we can communicate with cats, all of us. It's slowly, just

at them softly and saying, I love you.

I'm just trying to get him to return a blink to me, and he is so close right

now. I took my time and did it over and over again, and finally, he returned it

to me.

There you go, big boy.

Good boy.

Good boy.

At that moment, I knew that me and him were on the same team, we're talking the

same language, and he was going to be okay.

We've gotten rid of all the problems.

So great work, guys, and I'm really happy for you. Thank you so much.

You're welcome.

You're welcome. I think our social lives have changed just being able to have

people over and not having to worry about it. It doesn't matter if it's like

date or if it's a friend.

The household is calm enough for them to come in.

I'm going to take off.

Can I give you a hug?

Yeah, you can give me a hug. When I first met Shoshana and Nicole, Shoshana

saying that if Big Boy was going to continue to be Big Boy, then Shoshana

probably going to move out.

That's off the table. There's no violence, and I'm happy with it, and I

that the future is really bright for both of them. Bye -bye.

I feel like Pump is purposely antagonizing me.

He's not even my cat.

He's your ex -girlfriend's cat.

Pump, shut up!

Either we fix Pump's behavior or he's got to go.

Pump, no!

I'm going over to visit Lucas and Candice and their cat, Pump.

Now, Candice is an energetic healer. She works out of her home, and she believes

that Pump is purposefully antagonizing her.

And look, the last time I checked, Cat's had pretty good energy. I just want to

see if I can change her mind.

I'm Lucas.

And I'm Candice. And we're expecting our first child in a couple of months.

We met at a music venue in Los Angeles.

It was definitely a connection right away, and we've been together ever

Ever since, yeah. I have a cat named Pump. Pump was an ex -girlfriend cat.

We split up. She took Pump and was not a very good caretaker for Pump. So

I took Pump and have had him ever since, and he's 23 years old.

I call myself a vibrational therapist for healing work.

When we decided to change the house around and accommodate me doing my

out of here, it never occurred to me that Pump was going to react the way

he did.

It's like this constant battle with my room.

It's like I can't have my room to myself because he's meowing.

Pump, shut up!

He gets in here and he will meow and interrupt my session.

I feel like Pump is purposely antagonizing me.

Pump, no.

Yeah, it's a pretty emotional time right now. Pump and I have such a long

history together.

If I gave him to somebody and he died a month later, I would feel like that was

because I threw him out of his comfortable environment.

I guess I just never realized until this moment how much you

love Pump.

I feel, you know, I hate being the bad guy.

If this work with Jackson doesn't work, it's going to be a sad ending for all of

us.

Pump is 23 years old. That's extraordinarily old for a cat. The

the neighborhood of 15, 16.

Rehoming him right now would simply be a death sentence for him. So I have to

make sure that he stays right here.

Hey, howdy.

Well, Mr. Pump, I would assume.

That's right. That's Pump.

So tell me, he looks totally chill.

What's up?

Pump's my cat.

And actually, he was an ex -girlfriend's cat.

And I've had him for about 12 years.

I think with his age, the last couple years, he's gotten progressively more

whiny. I mean, he's not being loud now, but he wakes up in the middle of the

night.

And then when I created my healing space here in the house and needed to block

him off, he really protested that. And he continuously breaks into the room and

he pooped on my massage table. Then he'll poop and pee outside of the litter

box. That was kind of the message, like, hey, this is my place.

I have never seen projection.

to this level before. You lock him away, he had separation anxiety, and he peed

and he pooped. And that's very simple. Just don't do it anymore.

It's obvious there's human issues going on here. Now, what I might do is I would

want to put him outside, but then if he doesn't want to be outside, he'll sit at

that front door and meow.

So then I lock him in the back room and he'll meow and you can hear everything

in this house. It's antagonistic. It's like, you want this? I want that. And

like, is this how it's going to be when I'm home with the baby and trying to

juggle everything?

Where has the discussion gone with you guys, I guess? I've given Luke an

ultimatum that either we fix Pump's behavior or he's got to go.

Really? Honestly? A 23 -year -old cat? What has this cat done to you? There is

no reason to rehome this cat at 23 years old. He's been with Lucas for 12 of

those years. 12 years forms a bond that you can't just ask to walk away.

If you rehome this cat, the stress alone could kill him.

What I want to do is I just want to go into the places that are the most

important. All right.

Cool.

This is great.

This is my vibroacoustic table. It vibrates frequencies.

A client lays down, and I scan with my hand. I scan the first three fields.

I'm looking for heat or coolness or whatever, and I get intuitive kind of

And I go, okay, this is what I'm going to do.

Oh, show me the doors. Yeah, the doors.

As you can see, there's a spade.

Once he gets in here, what does he do? He beelines it usually for these silks,

which is the last place I want him to be, because I don't want cat hair all

my expensive silks that I'm not supposed to wash that often.

Of course, he goes up on the pillows there just because of the shedding.

Those pillows aren't washable.

Music comes through this thing?

Yeah, I can play it.

Is it a big pain? Can you play something? I want to see his reaction

turn it on. Oh, there, I feel it.

Let's see if he feels it.

He definitely knows what's going on.

I had this idea. I wanted her to start approaching Pump as if he were just

another being with an energetic blockage.

Pump was clearly drawn to Candice's energy work, so I figured, all right,

time to try it.

So if I were giving a session, I usually start by scanning your fields here.

Wow. Ooh, wow. That's the coolest thing.

One thing I do know is Pump likes the tuning fork.

Oh, really? Cool those out.

It's making my tongue get tired.

No, it helps balance the brainwave.

Lying on that table, not only do you feel the energy from the sound and the

light coursing through your body, but Candice herself is a pretty strong

There's something that he's drawn to in here. It's not, I want to mess your

stuff up. I believe strongly that any being, four -legged or two -legged,

attuned would be drawn to the spade.

I was really happy that Jackson's genuinely interested in the energy

The big thing that I feel like I'm seeing today is a relationship between

two of you that was never built.

The bond never happened fully between us. And then he's energetically linked

the ex -girlfriend because that's how he came into their relationship.

I know people always, when I say, and it's his ex -girlfriend's casting, oh,

know, like that's the problem. And there is something.

to be said about that. I think that one of the things that maybe you're not

looking at is that there's a reason why he's in your life right now.

Whether it is you bringing healing to him or him bringing healing to you, or

both. I think in a healing space, a cat is an amazing component.

Basically, I see where he's going. Jackson is suggesting that I allow Pump

the space. I think that's going to be a hard...

one to swallow here's your homework first of all i want you to make pump

first animal client because it is something that's going to benefit your

relationship with him next i'd like to hook you up with a vet friend of mine on

a more scientific level i do want to know what his blood says and what his

says at this age there's no way that something's not a little off and finally

think that pump can bring a lot to your practice and and a lot to your client So

I want to see that happen, and that's allowing the space to be open again.

is the hardest part of this whole thing in the next couple of weeks because

there's going to be a storm before the calm.

Yeah, okay. He gave it his homework. We'll try it, but I'm not thrilled about

it, and I feel like that becomes me making all the compromise.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. All right, man. Take care.

Bye, buddy. Bye.

Candace works with moving energy through people, moving trauma through people,

yet she is holding a resentment so tightly that it's like a rock inside her

body.

The last time I was here, Candace told me that she had absolutely no

relationship with Lucas' cat, Pump, because he was owned by Lucas and an ex

-girlfriend. And Pump, according to Candace, antagonizes her regularly.

Shut up!

For her homework, I asked her to treat Pump like a client.

Clear out his energy so they can start fresh together.

If she did that homework, we got a place that we can start from. If not, it's

going to be a long day.

So, tell me, what's been going on since the last time I was here?

Well, the biggest thing was the vet visit.

Yeah? And how is he?

There's a good chance that he has some thyroid problems.

In cats, they can be hyperthyroid. It's like being on a caffeine IV drip. So

they're always hungry. They're always moving. They could be constantly eating

and still lose weight. So let me guess, he's still yelling at the door. Yeah,

he's still yelling at the door, which leads us to believe that it's medical.

Maybe with some medication, we might start to see a change.

I just want to know where you're at right now for your acceptance of having

around here.

I don't know. There's certain behaviors still they have to change, and it's kind

of like, well, we'll just have to see.

There's still a big part of me that feels that it would just be better if

wasn't here anymore.

Maybe Pump symbolizes a part of my personality, which is compassion.

I just feel like you just implied I have no compassion.

I didn't say that.

I know. I implied it.

Right. He's not even my cat.

It wasn't even your cat. It was your girlfriend's cat.

What is the conversation?

My side is, well, I'll do whatever it takes, but the truth is I can't all the

time because, you know, I have to be away working.

Exactly. That's my point is that, well, if you can't do it all the time, then

that means that the responsibility falls on me. You're responsible for Pumps.

That's my point.

And maybe you need to own up to that.

Well, I...

Instead of putting it on me, like I'm the bad person that just can't handle

What else?

What else did I miss?

Well, I did give Pump his session.

Pump, welcome to my practice.

And I felt that Pump actually liked it. Oh, cool.

Who helps heal inflammation.

Good boy, Pump.

Let's head over to the healing room. I've got an idea, okay?

Okay. Let's go.

Okay.

So, what's gone on since the last time I was here?

Tell me the part that's not okay.

Well, still keeping him away from my silks.

You know, and like pillows that I can't wash that will get hair.

Yeah, for sure.

We want to work on having places in here that are okay.

Do you really think if he had a place, then he would know to go to that place

and not other places?

If there's one thing I know, it's what...

Cats like.

Basically, I want her to build up places that he can say yes to. This is mine.

There's so much payoff in that place that the places that he has for her,

stay away from. So let's get him up here.

Good boy.

I'm going to use some orange light.

Orange is good for healing bones and stuff.

I'm just watching his reactions to you.

He's just soaking it up right now. Yeah. I mean, look on his face. Yeah, see, I

mean, you can tell. It's weird. It's like I'm not even touching him. It's

the light, but somehow you can tell he's absorbing it. I think it's something

he's just been craving is a little more attention.

I felt honored to be a witness to what was going on, which was a bridging

between a cat and a human who said that for six years she had no relationship.

This was now two beings joining each other.

That. is why I do this, and it means a lot to me.

These are the chakra notes. This is the F note, the root chakra note.

He's just really comfortable right now.

Soon, as she hit that note, he turns over. There's nothing that he's relaxed

about except for that sound.

Hitting his auric field. Man, that was cool.

It's amazing.

It shouldn't be surprising, you know, watching animals respond to what you do.

Now that I'm seeing this avenue of opening up my energy work, I'm getting a

motivation. I can't deny that. It's working a little bit.

Good. I still don't feel that optimistic about eventually leaving my space all

set up and sharing it with Pump.

I just don't.

If Pump winds up without this home, he will die.

I've already said I will do whatever it takes to make that not happen, but I

can't break arms to make that happen. I can only sort of show the way and hope

that people walk the path too.

Got a little something I made for you?

No.

I decided you needed a vision board.

A vision board is something I've used in my life before. You see things that

represent what you want your life to be, you put them on the board.

Cats can play such a huge part in spirituality and they have.

These come from Buddhist temples in Myanmar and Thailand and where the monks

have accepted them as teachers and they...

add this energy to the environment, which is where I wanted to take it. In

homework, A, I would sure love to see you add to this and build a vision. And

this is partly about Pump. This is also about the gift that you have to share

with all animals and their people.

Also, I'd like you to find...

Whatever it takes, if it's a shelf or something like that, to divide the ends

the silk and have room for him to walk underneath and the floor. That becomes

sort of a passage point for him and not a place where he can get into trouble as

well. I also want you to take the next step with him. Bring in your clients.

Let them be a part of that healing. I want her to bring her own clients into

room with Pump in there so they can feel what it's like to have the healing

energy of an animal be part of these rituals around sound and light. I'm

to take off. All right.

Good to see you. Thanks, Jackson.

Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon, my buddy.

With Pump, if he doesn't live out his life with the gift of this home, I would

be devastated.

It would break my heart.

So, you know, I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn't happen.

I'm about to go for my final visit with Candace, Lucas, and their cat, Pump.

Now, listen, all I care about is that they're going to tell me we're keeping

Pump. He's going to live out his life with us. Am I going to hear it? I have

slightest idea.

Hey!

Hey, good to see you. Come on in.

Hey, Candace. Hi, Jackson. How are you? Good, how are you? I'm doing great,

thanks. Talk to me. What's going on?

Well, we've been giving Pump his thyroid medicine for about a week, and I

already noticed little changes.

That's great.

That late -night howling, I promise you, is thyroid.

He hasn't pooped outside the litter box.

That's a huge bonus.

So the last time I was here, I asked you to bring over a client and have Pump be

a part of it.

Yeah. How'd that go? It was interesting because Pump, of course, immediately did

want to be in the room.

He sat or stood on the chair for a while and likes that spot.

I'm impressed by the fact that your willingness seems to be on the rise.

Things are looking better, in part because of the thyroid medication, but

because Candice has allowed herself to have a relationship with Pomp. I

have gotten stuff from this experience. I am going to pursue the animal healing

aspect. I'm really excited about that.

Who would have thought that she would be expanding this energy practice to

animals? I love being a part of just seeing it take shape.

All right, now this room has a different vibe to it altogether, which is amazing

because, I mean, again, this was... Your face.

We had a door that closed him out of here.

The first thing I want to point out is your board. I mean, it looks like you've

added. Yeah, I've added. And then, of course, that chair is perfect because

by the window and it's leather and he likes it because it's cool.

He hangs out on the chair. Yeah, it's like he doesn't even pay attention to

pillow situation.

I mean, you really took what I said and you ran with it.

This is, you know, it's just a huge change.

Can you imagine that just a few weeks ago she was saying about this cat that

wanted no part of, and today there's a massive overstuffed chair there just for

him. Now I see down here.

We've installed a little shelf that takes the filth off the floor.

He can get by now? Yeah, he can still go back there if he wants.

You don't have the same fear that you had of him around those silks.

Great. We got them off the ground.

I got to tell you, now that I've been in here, that I've seen your board, I

choose to believe that this is the truth.

That what's in here is the truth.

I never backed away from you guys. From the moment I came here, I was like, I

want this boy to stay with you. And the time that you have is short.

Just give me...

I am going to keep pump.

I'm going to keep pump.

One more time.

Come on. Come on.

I'm going to keep pump.

I love that.

I love that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jackson.

You're welcome.

And thank you. You guys are amazing.

And this was really touching. I don't know why.

At the start of this, Pump was very much Luke's ex -girlfriend's cat, and now I

definitely see him as a gateway to something greater for me.

I've always seen myself doing this work with animals too.

I love the commitment that you guys have shown.

We don't know how long he's got.

I thank you from him because he speaks to me.

Amazing to meet both of you. You too.

Take care, man. All right, you too. And you can stay there if you wanted to. All

right. All right, take care.

Thank you, you too. Bye, guys. Bye.

Bye, Pop.

I'm starting to see how if I change my behavior with him and work with him

instead of against him, that we maybe actually could be friends.

Letting him stay here for the rest of his days is also a gift to me, so

thank you.

You're welcome.

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