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Burberry can be kind of scary.

People are afraid to come to our home.

Come on.

I want to put Burberry down.

I don't like that he feels that Burberry should be dead.

Oh, God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Our cat Leo and our dog Nala fight all the

time.

It's war.

Oh, God.

I'm emotionally and physically wiped out.

I think I'm at wit's end.

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.

It's okay.

I'm right here in the heart of San Francisco, and I come all this way to be

Michelle and Lindy and their cat Burberry. Now, Burberry...

Especially this cat. She's blind. She's deaf. She's being all over the house.

And it's the most challenging case I think I've ever seen.

I can't wait to get my hands on this.

I'm Michelle.

I'm Lindy. I'm the mother. And I'm the daughter.

We live together.

And we have an exotic short -haired cat.

Named Burberry.

She's deaf and blind.

She has special needs.

She's outrageously special needs.

Don't step in your poop.

Guess who just went to the bathroom by the door?

She just completely quit cleaning herself at all. She does no grooming.

She can be distrusting.

She draws blood. People are afraid to come to our home.

I just think Burberry has no quality of life, and I want to put Burberry down.

And I refuse to put Burberry down. She's not old.

My cat's seven.

And, I mean, I remember her purring and kneading at me, and she would leap on my

chest. I remember all that.

That Burberry's gone.

Now we have the Eagle Feral Burberry.

It's okay.

You can't even walk that far, really.

And then we got a new kitten, Burdox.

It has been horrible ever since.

I just think Burberry is not a good pet.

I don't like that she feels that Burberry should be

dead.

Hello. Hello. How are you? Wonderful. Nice to meet you. You too.

Burberry is blind and deaf. Oh, my God!

Special needs to a degree I've never worked with before, but that's why I'm

here. How old is Burberry?

She is seven years old. What's going on with her?

She's been having glitter box issues for quite a while.

I can't remember the last time I saw Bur.

grooming herself at all. Okay. Michelle's been complaining that this

been grooming herself, which is a sign of depression.

And she reflects that in her physicality. Burr has gotten violent.

Can you pet her?

No. You can't pet Burr? You can't even approach her. She got very vicious with

me. Wow. Are you kidding me? No. After I got Paradox, my other exotic short

hair, she stopped all.

No contact, no trust.

Basically a bird just kind of torturing him a little bit. Well, we keep him

apart. How do you keep him apart?

I keep her in the bathroom usually.

All the time?

Generally, she's in the restroom.

When the blind and deaf cat is in such a terrible state, why would you go out

and get a kitten and then put him in the bathroom for their entire life? That

does nothing for Burberry. Burberry's self -esteem and her sense of territory

has been sent underground.

I went to Japan for about three years, and when I came back, it just

took a 180.

She just stopped letting anybody come close to her or near her.

Exotic short hairs are very, very routine -oriented. You can't guarantee

you can disappear for three years and come back to the same exact vibe that

left. You are the hope for Burberry, because I think it is time for Burberry

sleep.

Oh. I don't think she enjoys one minute of her day.

I think that's ridiculous.

You guys talk about this a lot?

I argue about it.

You feel sadness. You feel anger between these two. I mean, the resentment in

this room is the size of the Golden Gate Bridge, and that's no joke.

Burberry's done a lot for me. She's saved my life.

I was going through a really bad breakup, and I was suffering.

I hate saying it, but I was on the brink of suicide.

And Burberry was there, and I just had something to

love and cuddle with.

I love you.

In my mind, that saved a lot.

I mean, honestly, I mean, my past is not very different, you know? I mean, at

one point, I was at absolute rock bottom. And there's no way that if I

surround myself with hundreds of animals, I would surely be dead by now.

get it. In my career, I have met special needs cats whose perseverance,

determination, and ability to give and receive love would just blow your mind.

We can be saved from these animals. I am living proof. Literally, I'm living

proof. I mean, that's a lot to digest.

That's a lot of information, and I haven't even met the cat yet.

So let me take a look around here, all right? Okay. Let's do it.

It's time to get up and let the territory speak for itself.

We call this hallway the Valley of P.

The Valley of P.

Michelle, Lindy, and I go into the hallway where there's a litter box, and,

course, it's completely pristine.

The whole hallway gets peed up?

Every inch of it. That, to me, is a little odd, and it can only say one

own the room that's beyond this wall.

I want to keep the momentum going a little bit here. I've got to see these

together. I've got to see the behavior between these two cats if I'm going to

fix it. So I asked Lindy, can you please just bring Paradox out to the other

room so I can see him in there with Burberry?

Okay, just hang with me.

Okay. Seriously, I'm not going to let it get bad, all right?

It's okay.

All right, here we go again.

Oh,

as soon as she put that kitten down, Burberry really went after Paradox, and

that was because of the smell.

You've got a deaf and blind cat, and if all they're smelling is threat, that's

all the world consists of.

And then Burberry scurried away to her safe area, and boom, she was off.

Hi, babe.

You can't hear me, can you?

Whoa, okay there.

It's okay, it's okay.

Can you feel that?

Galaxy, I'm literally just talking to myself right now.

It's okay, baby. It's okay. I can't think of what I can do to lure her out.

doesn't know I'm talking to her. She can't hear.

Let's see what we can pull out of here that you're going to like, huh?

Something with a tail to it. Sound isn't going to help you.

Let's see.

Oh, yeah. I think you'll like this.

Here.

You come to me, baby.

Come on, baby.

You can see something, can't you?

You can see, man. You can see a little bit, right? I had this realization.

Now it wasn't a matter of how little Burberry could see. It was about how

she could see.

And that I can work with. Take steps.

Take steps.

Come on, baby.

Oh.

Oh.

What is that?

You know I'm trusting you right now, right?

You understand what that means?

You're going to bite the toe in, not the leg?

In that moment, I knew that this cat didn't have to be euthanized. That was

the table. This cat could get through this problem, and I could help her get

through it.

Well, well, well.

First of all, Burberry has some ability to see things.

Wow. Yeah. And let's put something to rest now.

In other circumstances where I think, you know...

Some kind of drastic intervention might have been called for. It's not here. Oh,

my God, I'm so relieved that she no longer has to worry about getting

because Jackson got to see a little bit of the twinkle in Burberry's eyes.

Expand her ownership of the world. What does that mean? More litter boxes, and I

mean all over the place.

Yeah. Toy -wise, find interactive toys that engage her, not just with you but

without you. Here are some great toys, right?

I mean, this is a puzzle toy. Take a whiff.

It's lovely, right? It smells like fish.

I mean, this is all about giving her what she can use. She can use her paws.

can use her nose. She really can establish territory in her very limited

We've got to get her feeling like she owns something.

So the way to do that is first attempting her out with these great

When she gets there, you breath her in different places all around the house,

and those places will become places of ownership.

Yeah. And finally, Doc isn't any more familiar with dealing with a blind and

deaf cat than I am.

That's true. So we've got to let them at each other enough so that we can have

that communication started. Yeah. Okay.

Guys, I'll be back in a couple weeks. You guys can call me anytime.

Wonderful. All right, cool.

Lindy sees everything that, you know, everything's just going to be fine, but

don't expect Burberry will ever be the cat she was.

I'm just trying to be.

Realistic about it.

Now this is why I came to San Francisco in the first place. A case like

Burberry's, one of the most complex I've ever dealt with.

She's basically blind.

She's deaf. She's attacking people and other animals like Paradox the kitten.

And the fighting over putting Burberry down is ripping mother and daughter

apart. So this time, I'm ready for anything.

Hi. Hello.

Welcome back.

Well, look who's here.

I know she's now, you know, I keep the bathroom door open, so she now has full

reign of the house.

Seriously, this is the same cat who the last time I was here beat me senseless

in a bathroom. So I asked Lindy and Michelle to really go to town on toys to

pull Burberry out of her dendian area. But I don't think anybody expected the

level of presence socially that Burberry had today. She has a lot less stress.

It's amazing how, just like us, they manifest that stress. They stop

They'll look oilier. But she looks a lot better.

All right, tell me what else.

We put the kitty litter boxes throughout the house, and the only place she will

now accident is in her bathroom.

Okay. The hallway, which had marks all over it, is now completely spared, so

that means that she just was feeling territorially threatened, and now she

doesn't anymore.

Wow. Well, I'm heading back to L .A. then. No, no, no. There's still a few

little bits left.

Okay. What else has been going on?

With my other cat, Perdox, it didn't work too well. He's realized

her disabilities, so he'll go run up and pounce on her.

I mean, he's just being a kitten.

Perdox is the problem, because if you're not going to exercise a kitten, that

kitten's going to look for a target. And, of course, that target's going to

Burberry. Now, you guys also shot some video for me. Thank you very much.

Come on, Burberry.

Oh. That worked.

Beautiful.

Would you say that she's content right now? Oh, she's pretty gosh darn happy.

Oh, wow.

The brushing.

Interesting. I know.

We got some great moments in there.

How are you feeling?

I'm absolutely delighted because I had thought we were going to have to put her

down, and here I now have my friend back.

Yeah.

Because had Lindy not called you, I was going to put her down. So it's a little

hard to forgive myself.

Michelle felt guilty that at some point she was recommending euthanasia for this

cat. And you could tell that with her guilt, on the other side, there was

with a lot of anger that she wasn't putting forward. I mean, look, I can

the cat's problems, but I've got to heal the human problems at the same time.

Just not to put you completely on the spot, but I'm going to put you on the

spot.

Do you forgive your mom for going to that place?

I forgive you. I mean, I don't hold any grudges. So forgiveness goes both ways.

Yes, and I do.

Oh, I 100%. I do love you, Mom. I love you, too.

Now we can move forward. Now it's time for us to get up, take a look around,

the changes that you've made, and let me make some suggestions, okay? All right,

let's go.

As soon as we get up and walk around, Burberry starts playing with one of

new sensory toys that's on the floor.

Look at that.

Wow. This is Burberry actually acting like a cat.

I'm glad that you guys got toys like this. I mean, this is really, really

When you're playing with a special needs cat, you've got to take any sense that

they have and amp it.

to the nth degree. What vision she does have when the light plays off that

mylar, bang, gold.

Now there's the other step.

We've got to get her to that point where she feels like she can coexist with

paradox. Now we've got Burberry in here.

So it's time for us to do a little something I call eat, play, love. We

have positive associations around one another, so we're going to start with

play. We're going to get these guys doing things around one another that are

just to the moon positive, which are food, play time, and cuddle time for

guys. Last time I was here, big fight in this room.

Oh.

This time around, there's no way that fight's going to happen.

Let's get Docs in here and we'll start this thing.

Okay. It makes me nervous when I know they're going to be in a room together.

I have seen Docs become a bit of a bully to Burberry, and I don't want Burberry

regressing back either.

Hold up with putting Docs out.

Now, Michelle, make sure you're really working that thing.

Michelle has to be commanding Burberry's attention. Come on.

If she doesn't, it's game over.

Okay, so in comes Doc.

Michelle, make sure you keep it interesting for her. I want her

something over there. Keep him moving.

Come on, Doc.

Now, Lindy, try to get Doc's moving a little bit. Michelle, it's real

now that you just keep her moving in a direction.

I'm trying. Because as soon as, yeah, right, there you go. Perfect, perfect,

perfect. You got Doc's occupied.

You got Burberry occupied.

So the concept of eat, play, love is positive association. We start with

then we do eat, then we finish with love.

Eventually, they just know good things will happen around that other cat.

When I come back here next time, really what I expect is that eat, play, love

has taken over the house. Also, no more of the bathroom being a safe place.

Start bringing all of her stuff out so that whatever is actually safe begins to

take over the rest of the house.

I want Lindy to extinguish the bathroom as a safe place.

And in the meantime, I want them to continue on this path of the sensory

and all these sensory products.

This right here is a pretty cool concept. So the last thing I brought,

massaging back pad. And I thought since cats remember that their mother was

purring while they were feeding off of her, that maybe there's a measure of

safety that... Burberry can get from this piece. Now remember, this isn't

designed for cats, but you've got to be thinking outside the box when you've got

a special needs cat like Burberry. Big overriding principle here is using

sensory experiences to heighten her life experience.

Okay? Okay.

For my last visit, I want to come back and see these two owning the same space

without Burberry being paranoid, thinking she's going to get jumped. Any

deserves a full life, and this one is finally going to get that chance to have

it. Thanks, Jackson. Bye -bye.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Blue -eyed white cats are prone to blindness. True or false?

And the answer is false.

However, they are actually prone to deafness.

40 % of white cats with one blue eye are born deaf.

Meanwhile, nearly 85 % of white cats with two blue eyes are born deaf.

I'm going in for my final visit with Lindy and Michelle and their cat

It's been a pretty complicated case. We're dealing with a cat that's deaf,

practically blind, and dealing with a new kitten in her life.

I gave them a whole bunch of homework last time. If these guys committed to

homework, we got a good outcome. If they didn't, I don't know what I'm walking

into. It's wonderful to have you back.

Thank you very much.

So, how's life?

Um...

Pretty amazing.

Pretty amazing?

That's great. Let's start right there.

Last time I was here, the bathroom itself was the main place left, and she

still going outside the litter box.

Yeah, she doesn't go there anymore, not even to use the restroom, really.

We've had no more pee problems going on.

Can you even believe that? No, I cannot.

It's amazing.

She owns the place.

Yeah.

Instead of having this teeny little place to call her own, she's got the

house. Oh, my God.

She's just going around now with a sense of belonging, and Burberry has not gone

outside the litter box one time. So, let's take a look at your video

The best fun stuff for me.

She is on the massaging bed.

I have it underneath her blanket.

She's absolutely loving that.

The last time I was here, I brought this massaging pad with me to really cater

the world towards this special needs cat, and that's become a huge hit.

nicely together after enjoying some wet food.

That's pretty fun.

Yeah. There was one piece of video homework that honestly, snapshot, I'll

take that with me. The two cats eating this close to one another. There's no

you could have told me a couple weeks ago they'd be doing that. So everything

you say is true.

So we had just gotten some terrific news of sitting there talking to one

another. But it wasn't until we walked into the living room and I saw her

grooming herself that I said, now there, that's the cat that I was missing.

This is why you do all the work that you do. You know that reflects confidence.

It reflects self -esteem. It reflects happiness.

A depressed cat doesn't groom, and a happy cat does.

All right, now.

I got to show you some eat, play, love.

Okay. So the concept of eat, play, love is I wanted to take all the delicious

things in a cat's life, put it all into one exercise, and the only time that

these guys experience that level of fun and goodness is around one another.

Ready? Mm -hmm.

Let's do it. When I first showed eat, play, love to Lindy and Michelle, I had

give them a ton of instructions. Now I want to see how far they've come on

own.

Hey, you.

Yes, good girl.

Ah, yes.

Last time I was here, I was really hands -on with them. This time, Lindy and

Michelle are working eat, play, love like pros.

And that's why I was so pumped up, because it was really a perfect ending.

I want to thank you for taking Burberry's case, not only for Burberry,

other people who are deterrent from having a special needs cat.

Burberry has saved my life, and it was my time to save Burberry's life. So it

was the best gift that I could ever have given Burberry.

Honestly, it's been a real privilege to work with this cat, so thank you. Not

only did you save our pet, you saved a lot of pain from Lindy and I. You

helped our family be whole again.

Before we met with Jackson, I really was mindset that Burberry had to be put

down. I'm so glad I lost that argument.

I'm very happy that you lost that argument, too. Yay!

That being said, I'm going to take off. There is so much that I take away from

this case.

Thank you. My expectations have been widened.

Burberry's a special cat. Not a special needs cat. She's a special cat.

And she taught me a ton.

All right, take care of yourselves. Have a good flight.

Man, I can't even begin to tell you how good this one makes me feel.

All right, say goodbye, Burberry.

That was perfect.

Our cat Leo and our dog Nala fight all the time.

It's war.

We can't bring a baby into this environment.

I'm still in San Francisco, man. I love the city. I can't get enough of it. But

if you're David or Rebecca, city life has its challenges.

They all live in apartments like this, and if you're a cat and a dog trying to

live together, those challenges can be pretty heavy duty.

Leo the cat's having problems, and I'm going to find out what those are.

I'm Rebecca.

I'm David. And we've been together for eight years, married for five.

Leo is our cat.

Da Vinci is our other cat.

The black one.

Nala is our little bundle of Rhodesian joy.

And our cat Leo and our dog Nala fight all the time.

Oh, God.

Imagine this is happening 15 to 20 times a day.

Oh, God. What if one day Leo gets Nala in the eyes? I mean, she could be

severely hurt or worse, blinded.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. It's been so exhausting trying to find a solution. I

mean, I'm literally...

They got my wits in.

I literally am emotionally and physically wiped out.

When I think about wanting to start a family, it's hard because I know we

right now.

No, no, I'll leave him alone.

Oh, God. I can't even imagine myself on a day, you know, with a kid, a dog, the

cats, fighting and going crazy all the time.

I would absolutely not bring a baby into this environment.

Something has to change because we want to have a family.

Hi. Hey, how are you? Rebecca.

Hey, Rebecca.

Good to meet you.

Jackson. David. David, good to meet you. Good to meet you as well.

Thank you for being here.

Excited to be here. Good. You got this beautiful, bouncy, what is she, a puppy,

yeah? Yeah. 15 months. She's just totally gorgeous.

But that's not why I'm here.

No. So Da Vinci's our black cat. Okay. Leo's our white cat. I would say the

problem maybe lies more with Leo, the white cat.

Okay. And when him and Nala get in close proximity, kind of all hell breaks

loose. The first time we brought Nala home, Nala went to Leo and wanted to

and pounced on him.

Rhodesian Ridgebacks were created to round up lions, surround them, and keep

them busy until the hunters came in to finish the job.

Kind of ironic when you think about the fact that we have Leo the lion here, who

is being cornered and then gets stuck.

Nala, come here. That was Leo. Was that a hiss? Because I'm a little deaf. No,

no, no. No, no, no.

Nala. Nala, no.

Don't do that. Go over there.

Okay, then.

That's 15, 20 times a day, at least. That's very common.

Blood. Blood?

Yeah.

Yeah. Are you kidding me?

Where are you guys right now in this whole thing?

Imagine me, like, being pregnant or having a newborn, and this fight ensues.

This gets in the way of children?

Rebecca and David told me they really want to start a family, and that's in

near future, but there's no way they're going to do it with the level of chaos

that they have in the house right now.

Let's get up, let's take a look around the place, and let's see what we can

piece together, okay?

David and Rebecca had a lot to tell me, but the space itself was going to tell

me even more.

Did you have other plans for this room? Was this going to be something?

We purposely got a bedroom with a den because we wanted the cats. We wanted a

space. Their own area.

Right on.

Okay, here we go.

Oh, no.

It's cool. It's cool.

Wait, wait. Don't.

Oh, okay. Okay, well.

No. So this is what you guys see all the time. Right. The blocks up into the

corner. The corner. The corner, as I said.

This. is what happens 15 times a day. And guys, I have only been here for 10

minutes. Yeah, you see, that is very concerning.

His instinct is wrong.

Yeah. His instinct is throw myself into a corner and hope for the best. Yeah.

I see problems with the cat tower in the corner because that corner is where Leo

gets cornered all the time by Nala. He goes under it. It's that line in the

sand. This belongs to me. And if you come nearby, I'm going to swipe at you.

What led you to putting the food inside like that?

It doesn't allow Nala to get the food and eat it out of the box. All of a

sudden, I turn around, and she's eating poop out of the litter box.

Look at that. Covered in litter. Covered in litter right now. And here's the

other thing. Not only is it disgusting, it's really bad for her. Right.

Eating clay litter is a real problem for dogs. It's made of a substance called

sodium bentonite. That's what makes it clump, but it also expands in their GI

tract and can cause a lot of problems down the line. We try our best to

her. That involves the constant running around and making sure she's not in

here. I know they think they're being good dog guardians, but there wasn't a

single command that they gave this dog today that that dog listened to at all.

This whole room.

is an issue the fact that we don't have a door this is something that we really

have to look at okay we have to commit to it being safe haven because right now

it is definitely not i was expecting him to say wow you guys have a cat room

that's awesome that's not the reaction we got oh is that what's going on over

here let's just go quickly take a look here she chased him he goes up i just

want to see this happen don't stop it okay oh okay There's Da Vinci being

up onto the counter by Nala, not in an aggressive way, totally in a playful

puppy way, but how do you tell that to a cat?

He hides his stress very well. Right. But the fact that he has to decompress

tells you that his stress level went up. Went so high, okay. Right. This.

is why I actually go to people's homes. Because I thought I had it down. One cat

gets along with a dog, one cat doesn't. It couldn't be further from the truth.

The dog stresses them both out to no end. They just deal with it completely

differently. So I'm going to start giving you homework.

Okay. You referred to this area as Cat Haven. Yes. And it's anything but right

now. Right. We are going to make the destination and not a trap.

And I'm going to give you the prerequisite.

Okay. Okay? The tower is the first place that you start.

You can figure out... how to not make it trap -worthy.

Now, I want you to see exactly how your cats are seeing this.

With that in mind, I want you to borrow my collar cam.

Okay? All you've got to do is put this on Nala's collar.

Leo is such a second -class citizen at this point, and I really want to

highlight that to David and Rebecca.

Now they're going to see what it looks like to be hunted by Nala, up close and

personal. And finally, we have to work against the nature of the Rhodesian

Ridgeback here. If she can't do a sit -stay while Leo is walking around her,

will never work. David and Rebecca have let Nala run wild. But until they get a

sit and a stay down, I'm going to have them use a toy as a distraction.

When she rolls it around, out come little treats.

So it's all about Leo.

Having exposure to this dog 50 times and 50 times, nothing bad happens. Okay.

Really what it boils down to is two cats that are being terrorized by a puppy

and a puppy who's bred to do nothing but corner prey.

All right, guys. I will be back up here in a few weeks. Appreciate it. I am.

I'm not 100 % confident that Jackson can fix the issues with our pets because a

lot of the work is going to be on retraining Nala, and we've got a lot of

to do.

I'm heading over to David and Rebecca's house for my second visit. Now, these

guys want to start a family, but they can't because of the war going on

Leo the cat and Nala the dog.

Hey. Jackson.

How are you, man? All I'm hoping for this time, a little restraint on dog

and a little bit of ingenuity on cat part.

So it's good to see you, Nala.

How is it up here in these neck of the woods?

Well, going good. Going pretty good. Is it going pretty good? Yeah, absolutely.

A lot of training with Nala. The fighting still ensues.

Leo likes to burrow himself in the cupboards on the lower.

So battle lines have shifted, but battles are still happening.

Absolutely. Last time I was here, we were talking about in the neighborhood

20 times a day, fishing 20 times a day. Probably I would say half, 10 times a

day now.

I know, right? We've set up the cat haven. We have the gate up.

The number of attacks that they see has decreased dramatically.

That was just so wonderful.

The last time I came here, we were talking about basics.

Of dog training. So if he's in there, Nala walks by, what do you do?

We just try to get her attention, you know, say a command.

It has been something we've been working on, and definitely for me especially,

the hardest one.

All right. Okay. We have a lot of things to work on. Now, the cool thing is we

have video homework as well.

Cat tree is in the middle of the room now, making sure they have exit routes.

All around.

The first time I was here, I told David and Rebecca to construct Cat Haven.

Back here, we have the litter.

No cover. It's out and about.

Exactly right.

Also, we got to see Nala Cam.

And Nala Cam showed David and Rebecca what a disaster it is to be a cat in

household.

Finally, I got to see Nala playing with her treat ball while Leo was watching

her.

Fantastic.

Wow. All right.

Obviously, I want to see the cat room. I want to see all these areas. So let's

go head into the cat room. Cat Haven is where all the information is. So it's

time to head in there. Well, this is, I mean, pretty imaginative.

It obviously works. And did you have any problems getting the cat through here?

No. Well, let's go on in. Hi,

guys.

Look at you.

Look, I love.

This away from the wall.

Litter box in the corner, but we don't have to worry about that anymore.

No. Because we don't have a dog coming in here to snack.

Right. You guys were able to take that lid off. Yeah.

At this point, you can pretty much get rid of the lid. Exactly. I really think

that at this point, you can trust what you got here.

Let's up the ante a little bit, okay?

Now what we're going to do is we're going to take the gate all the way back.

Okay. Which means we're going to give her access to everything.

In order to really test Nala's training, I wanted her to come in and execute a

sit and a stay.

I think so. Rebecca, you ready for this? I think so.

I really wanted you to say, okay, I don't want to do this.

I'd like you to start doing a sit and a stay right now.

Sit. Nala.

Come here.

Nala. Sit.

Nala. Sit.

Nala. Sit.

Nala, look. Take her through it again. Okay. Nala.

Nala? No. No, no.

That's when things didn't go so good.

Tell her to sit again.

Sit. No, sit.

Nala, come.

Nala? At that moment, I knew exactly what the problem was. Leo is only

up high. If he's ever going to be on the floor, Nala's got to be able to perform

a sit and a stay. Otherwise, it's always going to end up in violence.

We identified very strongly who he is. He's confident from here up.

Meaning... We're going to get all good things off the ground. It was time for

to walk out of there with them and lead them into the living room. This thing is

so much trouble.

Every time they're there, I know something's going to happen.

How about I give you some homework standing right here?

All right. You either block that off or you get rid of it by the time I come

back here next time. I'm asking them to say no to the low.

Anything that's downstairs.

has got to be blocked off.

So let's have a seat. Okay. I'm going to tell you what I've seen today and go

for some homework, all right? All right.

Now, the first thing that we've got to start working on is Leo and this concept

of the floor.

Give me one second. I've got something outside that I want to show you, okay?

Okay.

One of my favorite pieces.

This perch.

encourages the resting position, and encourages movement at the same time.

this piece is going to go right above the gate on the outside here. Now,

two, right in the middle of the room, I want to have sort of an observation post

for the cat. They can sit up on it and just watch her.

It's something that he gets up on, he gets payoff, but being in the middle of

the floor, in terms of territorial significance, it has much.

Really, the goal next time is to get Nala to do a sit, stay, down stay in

to make this house safe for Leo.

If you guys keep working the way you have been working by the time I come

here, we can actually have a home.

I still feel like there's a lot of work to be done for us to, you know, think

about starting a family at this point.

Thank you so much. All right.

How's the treatment sound between Nala and Leo?

I wouldn't say we're there yet.

Negotiation. Yeah, we're in negotiations.

We're going in for my final visit with David and Rebecca.

We've got the cat, Leo, Da Vinci, and the dog, Nala.

I want to see all the animals integrated. I want to see them all in

room with the family. I won't be happy until I see that. Good to see you. I'll

see you again, too.

How's life?

Life is great.

That's good to hear, man. That's good to hear.

There are days where we have no fight.

None. Nothing. Not one. Not one.

Damn, that's good. I know, right? Very good.

When I first got here, we were having 20 fights a day.

And now, there are no fights at all.

That makes me happy.

I want to go over the video homework really quickly. So let's take a look.

Look at there.

Here we have Leo up top on his perch.

He can really observe us when we're here.

Since we've installed the new hardware in the house, he is just full -blown,

know, kind of integrated with the family.

I don't know if you can hear it, but Leo's purring.

Wow. I'm speechless. Yeah.

What I want to do right now, get up and take a look at this face. I'm like

chomping at the bit right now. Let's go. Let's do it. First stop, Cat Haven. It

started out as cat chaos.

So, let's do a final sit -stay right at the litter box, okay? I really wanted to

test David and Rebecca. I wanted to see how good the sit -and -stay has become.

Last time, didn't work out so well.

Nope.

Look. No.

Sit. No.

Sit.

Can you sit?

Good girl.

And then David did something through me to curveball.

He put a treat and he dropped it into the litter box.

Are you kidding me?

This is a dog that is driven to eat poop out of the litter box. I'm not even

going to move.

Stay.

What? Leave it.

I knew she would listen to us, so... I didn't know he was going to do that.

never done that before.

Stay.

Stay.

Good job, baby.

Yeah! Good girl!

Yay, Nala!

Man! That's what we're waiting for. These are the kind of moments that make

case worth it, because I know that this stay means that Leo is safe. Good work.

I also got to see David and Rebecca making finally great use out of the

cubbyhole cabinets.

I mean, you guys knocked it out of the park with this one. I mean, he cannot

possibly get in here. David and Rebecca nailed the cubbyhole assignment.

Perfect. Now I've got to see the family all together before I leave today.

Come here.

All right, guys.

Here we go. Up all the way.

Here we go. Sit.

Good girl.

We've got... Five beings on this couch all doing their thing, which is

absolutely mind -blowing.

Really. It was definitely surreal having Jackson sit on the sofa with Nala and

the cats and me and David all sitting there together having a conversation.

If you were to tell me that five weeks ago, I would have laughed in your face

and said, that's absolutely never going to happen. No way.

Tell me what's up for you guys next. I mean, what about a family?

I think it's definitely a conversation we can have now.

Today, I got to tell you, I'm a proud cat daddy because I worked with a couple

of people today who just did their work. And the payoff for them is going to

last a lifetime.

Now that the war is over, I got something for you.

We have the peace treaty.

Oh, wow.

So I wanted to give a parting gift to David and Rebecca. It was a peace

Although you may laugh at that, it was actually pretty serious.

It's not just wanting to show them they achieved peace through the hard work

that they did in this home, but that they can always have it. Oh, my God.

me to read for you. Okay. Peace treaty.

Pause the insanity.

Pause the violence.

Say no to the low. A general peace.

On behalf of all parties involved, herein agree to maintain a level of

and good tidings to each other and likewise abolish any feelings of ill

toward each other or members of the human race for here and forever.

By signing this treaty, we relinquish any and all feelings of animosity and

commit to an effort for a more peaceful cohabitation.

We have the two house felines and the house canine. Now, if you wouldn't mind

holding this. That is awesome.

We have a little ink pad here. So all we need is just a little cooperation and

we can get this going here. So, excuse me, can I have your paw?

Thank you, girlfriend.

Come here.

There we go.

House canine says okay.

And we need the house felines to also agree.

All right, here we go. Please hold your treaty.

And let's please get the approval of house feline, please.

House feline.

Thank you very much, House Feline.

Nice. We got one more.

We have yet one more House Feline. Okay. And then we have Peace.

And here come our star participant, Leo.

Would you please sign that Peace Treaty?

Good boy!

We have a Peace Treaty, gladly signed by the dog and the cat participants in

this household, agreeing, for better or for worse, to have peace, right?

Thank you.

There we go.

I wanted them to actually be able to look at something and say, we did this.

made this happen. And if anything ever falls back in the lifetime of these

animals together, we can always fix it. What does that mean at the end of the

day? That means that these three animals will stay together.

I'm so proud of you guys again. Thank you again. Appreciate it. Absolutely.

Thank you so much. All right. Take care of yourself. You too. Bye, guys.