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Lucy's aggressive.

Mark's all over the place.

Lucy's to find a new home.

I don't want to get rid of him because, like, who's going to want a cat who's

aggressive and pees everywhere?

Stop it!

Kimba, I called him the white tornado. Where are we?

Kimba terrorizes the heavy cat Remy 24 -7. Wake up!

Out of nowhere, he'll just start clawing you. We've been together for 16 years,

but I'm actually looking for a different place to live.

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.

Come on.

Ow!

I'm scared.

I'm out in canyon country right now, heading over to see Pat and Lori and

daughter Kristen, whose cat Moose is peeing all over the house. He's

He's beating Kristen up, and her dad is over it. He wants to surrender the cat

back to her shelter, and if that happens, man, I'm talking a death

So I'm going over there right now to see if I can save Moose's life.

I'm Pat.

I'm Lori. I'm Kristen, and we have a cat named Moose who needs some help.

Kristen was the catalyst for getting the cat, Moose, a cat that I'd very much

like to get rid of.

Kristen rescued him, and she took care of him, and he became exclusively her

cat. I basically got him when he was a little kitten, so he's been like my

little baby.

I just loved animals ever since I was little.

So this is our lizard. I want to be a vet and I want to be a marine biologist.

Moose was a normal cat, and then... Moose, no!

No! He started marking all over the place.

Bad kitty.

He will go pretty much anywhere.

Here he goes again. He's marking the couch.

He has peed on my pillows and my comforters, you can see over here.

I've seen him attempt to mark, and then I've tried to stop him, and then get him

out of the room, and he'll attack me. No.

I think something has to change because it's become a physical safety issue.

Moose was literally attacking our daughter, Kristen.

No. and she was bleeding from the face on both sides. Literally blood was

running down here, and he went for her, and he sunk his claws in both sides of

her head.

I don't want him to go.

I just need some hope that he'll be better than it is now.

Jackson, please help me. Please help Moose. Please help my family.

Hello. Hello. How are you? Good. I'm Lori.

And Lori. I'm Jackson.

Hey, guys. Hello.

I'm Pat. Hey, Pat. I'm Jackson.

Kristen. Hey, Kristen. Good to meet you. Kristen loves animals. She's got the

investment. We're talking about a 12 -year -old girl. She wants to be a

veterinarian. This is the kind of girl we need more of in this world, and I

to go that extra mile to help her out.

Tell me what's going on, guys.

Well, we have this cat named Moose. Moose. And he's about four years old,

cannot be left alone.

He just marks.

Everything and everywhere.

Okay. For about a year now.

Okay. And so we put him in the bathroom because we can't let him roam around the

house or else he starts marking.

Oh. When Lori told me that Moose basically lives in the bathroom, I got

I was pretty surprised. Instead of letting that energy out in a creative

you're putting him in a small enough space that he's going to blow. You're

guaranteeing it.

And he is neutered, yeah? Correct.

What else? Is there other behaviors that I have to know about? I've been

attacked.

Oh, let me see that.

When did that happen? Today.

Ow!

That is nasty.

Yeah. Lori has scratch marks on her hand. They're not little scratch marks

either. They're really bad -looking scars.

And that alone has me on edge.

We kind of had it.

We already gave him the boot.

Really? Like now?

Months ago, I was done. Months ago, you were done.

really concerns me is he's been very very aggressive towards kristen he's

scratched her up pretty good one of the instances was i have a lizard up in my

room and so moose will get on top of the cage and stare down at the lizard so i

would take moose down i would say no and then he kind of hissed at me and he

stuck his claws like right here and like i literally had to take his claws off

my face throw him down onto the bed and run out of the room and shut the door

I was horrified, and I started thinking, man, it must be incredibly frustrating

and incredibly saddening to be this child and to watch the cat that you just

raised turn on you and to know that he's one paw out the door.

When it comes down to her safety, he cannot be in her room.

Did that change the way you felt about him?

It did make me a little fearful.

Why are you still fighting with your dad about keeping him here?

But I still love him.

Now you're going to make me cry.

You can't help but feeling really sad for this little girl when she's telling

you that this cat, who she adopted as a little kitten, she's watching go away

from her. And I promised myself at that moment, there was no way I was going to

let this cat leave this little girl or this family.

Now, the first thing I want you to do is take me around the house and show me

places that he's peed, places that he's beached up, anything like that. I just

want to see it all, okay?

Okay. All right, where do we start?

Right in this room.

We didn't have to go far. All we have to do is stand up. He's marked over there

on the wall.

And this living room has been doused by moose. He has hit the back of the back

couch. I mean, I'm talking all the couches, the pillows on the couches.

lamp. He peed on the lampshade.

No place in here was safe. Okay, where's the next place you want me to stay? The

bathroom upstairs.

Lead the way. Okay.

All right, so guys, this is the... This is the bathroom.

Oh, this is Moose's... This is the bathroom. Yep.

Guys, this is a small bathroom.

This is where Moose basically lives, and this room is teeny.

Moose is used to owning much more of the house, so being relegated to a room

this small is making him territorially anxious and causing him to lash out.

is how bad it's gotten where this family has already basically said goodbye to

this cat.

All right, we still got stuff to talk about. You know what, guys?

Let's keep going, okay? Okay.

I wanted to have some one -on -one time with Kristen in her bedroom with Moose

because, after all, Moose is her cat.

Ah, did he go into the bed?

All right.

How would you normally get him out from under the bed? Most of the time I try to

get him out with a toy.

Let's try that first. Let's see what you do.

I would stick it in there and kind of jiggle it around.

See if he doesn't come out with it, then I would do it again.

He's not very interested.

He moves.

There you go. You got him.

Hi.

Oh, he's a little wary.

Just when you think you got him, you don't got him.

All right, we're going to go for some little bit of food here.

He's like, oh.

What is that?

Well, hi.

Good boy.

Moose hides for a minute, but he was pretty easy to get out. And you know

He just kind of looked like a normal cat to me.

Just moments before I got here this morning, Lori got attacked pretty badly,

I know the problem can get serious, and I'm not going to underplay it.

Do you feel anything coming off him that worries you at all?

He seems calm.

Yeah, he does.

And I know from your show, when they blink like that, it means they're kind

calm.

One high five. Nice. Very nice. One of the things I really love about Kristen

being sort of the aspiring veterinarian is her powers of interpretation are as

good as her powers of observation, and that's something I'll be able to work

with. The other thing I want to talk to you about is the lizard. Yeah.

When cats are looking at their prey, when they're focused on hunting that

they go through this switch where they're just hunters.

That's all they are.

So in that moment that he was looking at the lizard, you pick him up. And not

only do you pick him up, you hold him in the air and you say, no.

And at that moment, he's not thinking.

It wasn't like, I don't like you. No.

He was the hunter, not your pet.

Yeah. Do you see it yet? Because he wanted it, because it's his instinct to

at it.

She got it. You could see it in her eyes. She lit up in that moment because

understood, now I've got a partner to work with, and I'm going to be using

Kristen's know -how and her smarts to solve this case. Hey, guys.

Hey. So let me tell you some of the homework.

Okay, Kristen, knowing that you want to be a vet.

I got you a little vet kit. And more important than just being a vet kit,

is a detective kit. Because really what I'm asking you to do is be the main

detective in the house. And every place that he marks, please put a post -it.

And you're going to have to walk around and find out every last bit of

information that we can get because I don't feel like I've got remotely what I

need, okay?

I've always wanted to be a veterinarian. So I'm excited that I can have these

tools to help me.

Now let's start talking about... what we're going to do about the marking. I

want you to put more litter boxes in the house. Put one new litter in one of the

boxes, the old litter in another box. Let's see which one he likes. The next

thing, I could not leave here tonight if we continue to do what's going on here

in terms of the bathroom. I've got to have him come back into your room.

Not 24 -7.

But I've got to start moving him back in that room a little bit to have access

to the place that was so important to him. And right now, at least for the

being, we can't have the lizard in your bedroom.

If we know that there's something that sets him off, why have it in there,

And that keeps him from going off. Once we have him going up into her room more

and owning that room again, we've reestablished the relationship. Then we

more to that bathroom, let him out, and actually be a member of the family

again. We've got a lot of work to do and obviously not a lot of time to get it

done. If this doesn't work, then enough with this cat. Like, he needs another

home. We've done all we could.

I will talk to you all soon, okay?

Okay. All right, take care.

I'm hopeful that this can be fixed.

I'm here for my second visit with Pat, with Lori, their daughter Kristen, and

their cat Moose. The last time I was here, not only was this one of the worst

spraying cases I'd ever seen, but Moose was also really violent, especially to

their 12 -year -old daughter.

I'm going in there right now. All I can hope for is there have been no more

attacks on their daughter.

Hi. How you doing?

Good. How are you? Good to see you. The vet is in the house.

So, guys, first things first. Have there been any attacks?

No. That allows me to breathe a little bit.

Give me a little bit of that.

That's amazing.

Tell me what else. What else have you noticed?

He continues to mark.

That leads to a bigger question.

Is he spending more time out here?

No, he's spending a lot less time in the bathroom and more time out here.

Okay. I was sorry to hear the moose was still spraying all over the house, but I

was encouraged to hear that at least he wasn't living in the bathroom anymore.

What else have you noticed?

Well, we put a litter box in the bathroom down here.

And we tried a new litter.

Okay. So he used that one. That's pretty amazing.

And then there's one in her room. Yeah, then he used that one. You just keep

glossing over the good stuff.

Cats can definitely be particular to a certain kind of litter. For one, smell

plays a part in it. Certain cats are just offended by certain scents. Now, in

this case, Pat and Lori have found a litter that works for moose, and we've

to build on that.

Kristen, tell me what your relationship is now like with him after a couple

weeks. He'll come up, he'll rub against my face, and then he'll fall asleep next

to me. But he goes up to your room to sleep?

Yeah. Yeah. Most of the time. That's amazing, guys. We took your suggestion

move the lizard out of there. Yeah. That was a big help. That's so cool, guys.

That's a good feeling.

The last time I was here, I asked Pat and Lori to just remove the lizard cage

from Kristen's room. Now there's nothing in there to rile him up.

Now he's sleeping with her, and that's a huge victory. But he's still marking,

and we have to figure out why, if we're ever going to get to the bottom of this.

Let's take a look at your video homework and see what you guys have collected

for me over the past couple weeks.

So we have a litter box over here in the corner.

I saw them adding litter boxes all over the house, and I know that's going to

pay off as well.

Moose has peed on this bag right here, this one, and this one.

I got to see Kristen doing her true detective work and putting those sticky

notes up all over the house, wherever Moose peed. Now, of course, there's a

downside to that, and that is there was a lot of sticky notes that had to go up.

All right.

So, Kristen, another part of your detective homework was making

about Moose and his surroundings.

What do you notice?

Well, we figured out that the reason why he might have got spooked is because

our next -door neighbor's cat went into our garage over the weekend.

What? Kristen caught the neighbor's cat in the garage. It gives us an indication

that Moose is not just paranoid. They are after him. Okay, I had to go into

garage and check it out.

Take a look at this.

You see what's chewed up down here?

When there's a cat and it's cold outside the way it is at night, if they want

in, they can literally go flat and get in here, right?

That was an aha moment because we think the garage is completely closed up and

there's really an access point.

Okay, guys, let's talk about different types of litter. Tell me about the

changes you've made.

This is just a new litter that we tried, and he uses that litter. Great. Look,

we got a litter that's working for you, which I actually do like the non -smell

of. But look, anything that works in this house, we got to throw a party

right? So, good. We put all kinds of boxes around the house, but this litter

with this box worked well in the bathroom and in Kristen's room. Great.

success of an experiment.

All right, so let's just walk with him wherever he wants to go. So we headed

outside, and I gave Kristen a harness for Moose. I wanted him to have access

outside because the marking out here is going to control the marking in there.

But at the same time, I wanted it to be safe and controlled.

There we go. Good boy. I showed him the proper way to guide Moose, and that's

when he really calmed down. It was nice.

And what I just want him to do right now is just calm himself down a little bit.

Now, you see the look on Moose's face right now. I mean, Moose is...

He just did that blink, and he was calmer.

Exactly. You could see with Kristen that our future vet was taking a vested

interest in her cat, and I loved it. Come on, let's go inside.

Hey, guys, let's bring him right here to the table, because I just want to have

him in something that these guys have more control over. Good boy.

Good boy. Now, come here.

Now, somebody do me a favor and just hold him here for a second.

I would, um, okay?

And I am going to be right back. Let me get something out of my case. Okay.

I want to take it to the next place. And what I want to do is I want to see

Kristen leading him around, giving him an activity while in that jacket.

Okay, buddy boy.

Now, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to try... Let's try this one here.

Now, we're going to take this harness off him.

We're going to just get this on him.

And I just want to measure it a little more cleanly here.

There we go.

But it's nice and...

It's snug there.

Let's see how we are down here.

Nice. Now, here's what I want you guys to do.

You can do it in short spurts. You put him in this. You reward him for being in

it. All right? So if there's favorite treats or something like that that he

likes, I mean, I can give him something right now and see if he likes it.

How about something big?

What's that?

What is that?

There you go.

There, what a good boy you are.

What a good boy you are.

See, now here's how I'm going to work this.

You like that?

Have another one.

Oh, hello, take a step.

Hello, take a step.

See how I'm just leading him across the table?

Kristen, I want you to step in here, and I want you to see what you can get from

him.

What I'd like you to do is... Your promised land is to lead him to the

case. So go ahead.

Keep it going. If he lifts his head up, we'd lose him.

Get the next one ready.

You are killing it right now. Good.

One more.

Yes, exactly.

That's the promised land.

You could tell that as long as he had an activity, he wasn't going to spray. He

wasn't going to act out. He wasn't going to feel insecure.

This is something we can use later on.

You see how what you're doing, guys, is you're training him to have confidence

in this thing, but he still has control, which is something that I love to see.

I do like the results that I'm seeing from him right now.

So remember, when you're taking the Velcro off, do it quick.

Yep, there we go.

And then quick.

Number two is off.

And he's free.

Let's just let him roam.

It was time to start talking about their homework.

First of all, in terms of harness work, I want the goal to be walking outside on

a leash so that he'll mark outside rather than in here. The next thing

going to do is build a catio. A catio is an enclosed outdoor space where a cat

can mark their territory but still stay safe.

Let's talk about the garage.

We noticed today there's ways to get in, and the easiest thing to do is to fix

that rubber piece and make sure there's a seal.

By sealing up that garage door, not only will Moose not feel threatened by

smelling outside animals, which made him want to mark inside, we won't actually

have outside animals coming inside. That's a huge incursion into his

No wonder he's peeing all over the place. So, finally, you can open this,

please.

I like it.

Look at that. This time I give you your official lab coat.

It was pretty cool just to see what real vets have to wear and what tools that I

can use to further investigate Moose's behavior.

So if you have any questions or concerns, get in touch with me, right?

All right, take care. The next two weeks is going to determine kind of what's

going to happen. We cannot live like this.

I'm encouraged with the aggressiveness, but the marking situation needs to get

better. or he's not going to be here.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Approximately how many sounds can a cat make?

A, 15, B, 75, or C, 100?

The answer, after the break.

How many different sounds can a cat make?

The answer is C, nearly 100 different sounds. A dog, in comparison, can only

make 10 different sounds.

I'm here for my final visit with Pat and Lori and Kristen and their cat, Moose.

The last time I was here, the aggression had gone way down, but the marking was

still a big problem. So I stepped up their homework, and if they stuck to it,

think Moose will be much better. I'm just hoping I'm walking into nothing but

good news.

Hey, guys. How you doing? Hey, Pat. How you doing, man? Very good.

So, guys, good to see you guys. Good to see you. Where's Kristen?

She's at school. She'll be home soon.

Good. So, talk to me about it.

The markings have probably gone 80 % down. 80 % down? I'd say maybe once a

Oh, man.

Big difference. Guys, that's amazing. Big difference.

She's using the litter box.

That is so cool.

Basically, where there used to be 40 incidences of pee per day, there was

one. That's pretty amazing.

Moose has got free reign of the house.

He is not in the bathroom anymore.

Wow.

Wow. Are you kidding me? When I first met this cat, he was one of the worst

spraying cases I'd ever seen.

And now, they're beginning to trust him the more he walks around.

And the more they trust him, the more he trusts his environment.

And that's key.

And up in Kristen's room, there's no violence. They just hang around like

the way we would want them to be.

There's a lot of reasons why Moose isn't aggressive towards Kristen anymore.

First of all, they're opening the door to the bathroom so he doesn't feel

territorially confined.

They're letting him in Kristen's room to sleep.

And third, I taught Kristen about when not to approach Moose when he's feeling

all activated by the lizard. All those things combined are a big reason why

Moose isn't attacking.

All the way around, pretty amazing things I'm hearing right now. Now, of

I have your video homework that you've shot since the last time I was here. So

let's take a look.

On Pat and Lori's video homework, I got to see, finally, Pat fixing the weather

stripping in the garage.

Remember the last time I was here, they had a cat coming into their garage, and

that was causing Moose to backslide and continue spraying all over the house.

Now, no other cats can get in and threaten Moose's territory.

What are you doing there?

Filling out my channels.

Also on the video homework, I got to see Prispen continuing to journal about

Moose. Can you show me the front of it?

I'll tell you, it really does my heart good because she will be helping

I can feel it. There's the little vet.

Also, on the video homework, I got to see Moose being led around on his leash,

spraying his perimeter.

And now he's peeing in an appropriate place, outside.

Wow. The video homework I saw today was fantastic.

I mean, really great news in there. But it was time to get up, walk around, take

a look at all the environmental adjustments they had made since the last

had been here.

Okay, this is exactly what I wanted you guys to do. Now, this is a hallelujah.

You got nature's litter box down there, a great place to sit in the sun. That

makes me happy. I mean, I love the fact that you guys planted stuff here, too.

Hey, Kristen.

Kristen came home from school and joined us, and she was really smiling. She

looked great, and that was good for me to see. All right, guys, good stuff.

Let's go back inside.

Hello, little boy.

Now, this whole family is telling me that Moose is a different cat since the

last time I was here, that his confidence is way up. And, of course, I

see that for myself. He looks great.

I would imagine you got to feel good for him.

Yes, he's happy.

So has this whole experience with him given you the insight that you might not

have had before?

Yeah, it challenges my brain more on what he does and why he does it.

I'm happy if you're happy.

Yeah, I am. I am happy.

I'm really happy because Moose is a lot calmer and friendlier, and it's good to

know that I'm not going to have my face attacked or all of my stuff peed on.

That was pretty incredible.

Yeah. Now, Pat, I just want to know that after all the work that we put in here,

is Moose staying here?

The cat is staying. The cat is staying.

Very nice, people. Give me some there.

To know that this little girl gets to keep her cat is the best news they could

have given me. Now this is why I do what I do.

That's a smile.

That's a smile. You saved that cat.

Thank you. It makes me happy because I know if you stick with working with

animals, you're going to do great things.

Thank you to Jackson because he's given us so much to make Moose a better cat.

All right, guys. It was a pleasure.

Meeting you. Thank you very much. I will talk to you guys soon, okay? Thank you.

It makes me feel great that I get to keep Moose. I mean, he's a part of me,

I'm happy I get to keep him.

Yay!

Yay!

Goodbye, Moose.

Goodbye, buddy.

I'm heading over for my first visit with Liz and Michael and their cat, Kimba.

Now, Kimba's so destructive, they call him the white tornado.

This cat's got his own motor.

I'm going over there right now to see if I can calm this storm.

I'm Liz.

I'm Michael.

And we've been together for 16 years.

And we've been married for five.

I knew the first time I saw her, that's the one I'm going to marry.

We have two cats.

Remy and Kimba.

We've had Kimba for 10 months and he is an albino Siamese. You can't do that.

And Remy is 16 years old. He's a Russian blue.

Before Kimba, life was calm and quiet. I call him the white tornado for a

reason.

I'll be sitting somewhere.

And out of nowhere, he'll just start clawing you.

Kimba, I have to get up here.

Oh, blood everywhere.

Kimba terrorizes the other cat, Remy, 24 -7 on a daily basis.

He jumps on his back, bites his neck, bites his legs.

It's like living with a schoolyard bully.

Break it up. Kimba is the problem child, and Liz is the problem mom that enables

him.

Kimba's behavior is Liz's fault because he would do something bad, and instead

of, like, making it clear that it was bad, she would pick him up and pet him

hug him. So, of course, Kimba thinks, oh, that was great. I'll do that again.

Liz spent way too much time on Kimba and not enough time on Remy or

me.

I would like my wife's attention and affection again. This is going to be

biggest challenge because not only does he have to fix Kimba's behavior, he has

to fix Liz's behavior as well.

There's nothing wrong with me.

Except when it comes to dealing with Kimba.

If things don't change with the Kimba situation soon, I'm actually looking for

different place to live.

How are you? Good, how are you?

Liz. Liz, good to meet you. I'm Jackson. You too. Hi, Jackson. Michael. Hey,

Michael. Good to meet you, man. I need things to change because right now I'm

not getting the attention I need from Liz. All of her attention is focused on

Kimba. So, guys, I assume I'm here to meet cats as well, yeah?

Yeah. Who am I meeting? You're meeting Kimba and Remy.

Kimba's 10 months old, albino Siamese, super hyper energetic. He just revs it

and he rips through here, knocking over furniture.

overturning things his nickname is the white tornado and he lives up to it the

white tornado a cat is a kitten for at least the first year of their life but

from about the age of about nine to ten months they enter teenage years where

they start taking all the things they've learned and they start pushing those

limits just like human teenagers let's talk about remy for a second remy is 16

years old kimba terrorizes remy 24 7 kimba is a really aggressive cat

You'll be standing in the kitchen, and he'll wrap his body around you and just

start biting.

Kimba's pretty aggressive with them, too, and that's really concerning

not only are cat bites dangerous, but they're also one of the main reasons

cats get returned to shelters.

Kimba gets up on the roof.

Please come down, Kimba. Come on.

He does not know how to come down.

And one time, Kimba broke his ankle.

Okay. One of these times, I got a ladder. Kimba wouldn't come near the

the roof, so I actually had to get on the roof to get him. Yeah. So I was up

the roof, got Kimba, handed him down.

Liz took Kimba and walked away and left me on the roof.

It goes, Kimba, Remy, Michael.

I love him to pieces.

I love him so much, you would have think that I gave birth to him. I love him so

much.

I was actually looking for...

another apartment.

Wow.

These guys have been together for 16 years, married for five, and Kimba could

the thing that's tearing them apart.

I need to see where the white tornado does his worst damage. I have no idea

whether I'm here to fix Kimba's behavior or to fix their marriage.

Is there a specific space where the cats fight?

There'll just be a rolling battle going on.

You guys hang out here for a second. Hold on.

Their apartment is shaped in kind of a circle, and the white tornado has its

racetrack. So he just runs in that circle, and this is where Remy is

beat up by Kimba. This is a pretty amazing place to be a 10 -month -old

rambunctious kitten.

So not only is he going around and around, he also has his path to go

well. Let's go take a look at outside. Okay.

Wow.

So we put these pigeon spikes up.

That stopped him for a minute.

Just what if for a second he loses his balance? He gets skewered in the

on his way down.

This has got to go.

Pigeon spikes, I was completely horrified. I want these gone today.

Hello.

Hi.

Babies. These two cats might be aggressive towards one another, but I'm

going to see that kind of behavior.

Coquimba seems intimidated by my presence, so I'm going to leave a motion

-activated camera behind, and I'm sure I'll get much more real behavior this

way.

Ooh.

Oh, man.

Okay, now that's not what I wanted to see.

That's got an edge to it I don't like.

As I'm watching the behavior unfold on the monitor, I'm thinking to myself,

well, yeah, there's a definite play aggression edge to what's going on with

Pimba, but edge is the key word.

He's 10 months old, pushing his limits, and who's he pushing his limits against?

A 16 -year -old cat who doesn't have the energy to fight back.

All right, guys, now, first of all, I left this motion -activated camera in

bedroom, and what I saw was pretty simply play aggression.

Kimba just, he's an energetic teenager.

So the more you guys drain that energy, the less he's going to be swiping at

Remy and destroying your house.

Let me start giving you the homework.

I'm still digesting the shape of this place.

So... First thing we've got to talk about is the racetrack. It's time for

create good pit stops where there were bad ones before.

Hold on a second, I've got something for you.

This is a little genius toy, right?

This toy is very simple.

All you do is you hang it on a doorknob.

All it does, turn it on.

Sucks it up one side, drops it down the other. Oh, my God.

If we can distract Kimba around the racetrack with positive pit stops, then

won't turn that energy onto Liz, to Michael, to Remy, and all their

as well.

Now, let's start talking about the deck.

Here's what I want you to do.

If you have a blocker.

that comes off the walls at a 45 -degree angle, just like that.

Kimba's not going to jump because he knows he can't get over it. It's coming

over his head. He'll know there's no escape, and he'll enjoy his time down

in the places that he should be as opposed to getting up on the roof.

Let's move on to the human issue that we got going on here. So when Kimba's

doing things like clawing up your legs, You picking up and sending that message

of I love you anyway, you're perfect, I love you, then he's going to keep doing

it because the payoff is huge for him.

You let him get away with murder.

Kimba is crazy, and I'm crazy for Kimba.

Right on?

Right on. Okay, guys.

The human tension in this room is palpable.

This is about human issues that we've got to untangle just as surely as we've

got to untangle the feline ones. She can't help herself.

She's going to be the overloving mommy forever.

We're going in for my second visit right now with Liz and Michael and their cat,

Timba. First time I was here, Kimba, a .k .a. the White Tornado, was ripping

through the house and attacking Remy, their other cat, and Liz.

Kimba, stop!

Ow! Now, I watched their video homework, and I saw both Remy and Kimba playing.

You just love that thing, don't you?

I saw Kimba panting after playtime, which is great. That means he's tired.

But then I saw him attack both Remy and Liz, and that tells me that he's not

tired out enough.

Ow! I also saw the blockers up on the patio. That means Kimba can't get up on

the roof anymore.

Well, hey, guys. The last time I was here, this couple was at their breaking

point over Kimba. Michael was even looking for a new place to live.

Today, I'm just hoping things are better.

So, what's going on? There's a lot of things he still does. He still attacks

and still attacks Remy, but not to that level as before.

Kimba has gone from an F5 to maybe down to an F2.

Amazing. That's so cool.

This just in, breaking news.

Kimba the cat, a .k .a. the white tornado, has been downgraded from an F5

F2. Good news.

Have you guys talked about how to meet in the middle a little bit? I mean,

slowed down some. Yeah. Now it's all Kimba half the time. All Kimba half the

time. I'll take that. That's great. Yeah. Yes, she actually goes to the

and buys stuff besides cat food. But there's still some lapses.

Liz still sometimes praises Kemba inappropriately. She'll immediately pick

up and love him.

So I still think... You don't do that.

Yes, you do. You don't know you do it, but you do it.

You can't help yourself.

First thing we're going to talk about is the racetrack, right? First time I was

here, we talked about putting pit stops on the racetrack. So I'm going to take a

lap around the racetrack like I did last time, see what improvements you guys

made. Give me a sec.

I wanted them to build in places where Kimball would stop and be a toy. He

play with it instead of just doing that maniacal run, which always ended in

destruction.

There was one thing on the racetrack, and you know what it was? It was the toy

left them the last time I was here, and they seemed to have missed the point

completely. There's nothing on that racetrack. You haven't changed a thing.

There's flamestring over here. Yeah, but that's not enough. Beyond that one toy,

what were you thinking?

I'm a little flummoxed at the moment.

So you know that the same homework that I gave you last time, I'm going to give

you this time. I really need you guys to add more toys to this racetrack, as

well as things like scratching posts and cat trees.

The next thing I want to do is spend some time with the cats. Let's get the

white tornado out here and see what happens.

I need the attacks on Liz and Remy to stop.

So to tire Kimba out, I wanted to teach Liz and Michael this technique called

boil and simmer. Basically, we're just going to take Kimba and play with him

hard until he pants. That's the boil. And then let him rest or simmer for just

few minutes.

Now, here's the problem that you guys might be facing is that you only do the

boil simmer once.

Am I right? You're exactly right. This happens with a kitten.

Three times.

Let him simmer for about five, ten minutes, something like that. And once

done, you will bring him back up again.

But let me just show you for a second, okay?

I'm going to bring Kimba up to a boil and then let him simmer a few more times

and see if he'll still redirect that energy onto Liz and Remy. So we got him

panting right now? Or is he going to go, hey, I'm satisfied. Now I can rest.

That's what I'm hoping for anyway.

We're going to put the toy away.

So call him over.

Kimba!

Come on, Tim. Come here.

Okay. Now, here he comes.

I thought I'd come head straight for Liz, and I thought, that's it. Here we

This is the stuff I love, man.

This is what he chooses to do.

This is what we want, right?

He didn't attack Liz, and he didn't attack Remy. As a matter of fact... Remy

right next to him with not even a care in the world. That's fantastic.

Huge success, really. So let's start with a few things. Let's talk about the

racetrack again.

Now, please add the pit stops.

I also want you to add rest stops around the racetrack. I want them to start

bringing in places he brings energy down, like a cat tree or some shelving.

Now, all kittens will do what's called smurgling. Do you know what I'm talking

about? This kind of thing, like that.

Smurgling is something that kittens do, all kittens do. So I want to give Kimba

a place where he can smurgle because I think it's going to bring him down. It's

going to bring his energy down. He'll be reminded of being really relaxed.

That's your smurgle blanket.

It has a soft, plush surface the cats love.

We also saw today that if you go with that routine, bring him to a boil, let

simmer. Bring him to a boil, let him simmer. You'll be done with him in 10,

minutes. Right. All right, guys. Thank you very much.

I'll talk to you real soon, okay? Okay, Jackson. All right, bye -bye. I hope

when Jackson comes back, I can see some peace between Remy and myself and we're

not getting attacked anymore.

But I don't know.

Kimba's crazy.

I'm here for my final visit with Liz and Michael and Kimba, a .k .a. the White

Tornado. The first time I was here, Michael was about to move out. I was

actually looking for another apartment.

This time around, I want to see a unified front with Liz and Michael and

On their video homework, I got to see Kimba really going to town on that

blanket. My favorite part by far was seeing the concept of boil and simmer,

meaning he would be brought to a pant. Then they would let him simmer down a

little bit, catch his breath, then bring him up again.

Now, Michael and Liz finished the racetrack, all the pit stops, all the

stops. This is his favorite spot in the whole house.

One thing I didn't see on the video homework was Liz and Michael leading

around the finished racetrack. If I can see that today, then I think they have a

chance of dampening the storm. So the last time I was here.

We were still referring to Kimba as the white tornado, although he had been

downgraded from an F5 to what, an F2.

Where's he at today?

He's an occasional F1.

An occasional F1. Yeah? Yeah.

Now that Kimba's energy is drained, I'm not getting attacked.

Remy's not getting attacked.

No attacks at all?

No. That's huge. Yeah, it's huge. Yeah.

When I first met you.

It was very much like all Kimba all the time coming from you, Liz.

I've learned to back off.

You've got to be proud of yourself.

Yeah. Before it was Liz and Kimba.

Now we're all a family together.

Michael, first time I was here, you were actually saying that this problem was

bad enough that you were thinking about finding another place to sleep all

together. Right. Are you even thinking about that anymore?

No. I'm no longer looking for another apartment.

Yes. That's great, man.

Everything I've heard from you guys so far is fantastic.

Now, what I want to get up and do is take Kimba around the racetrack, okay?

Now, if Kimba can run this racetrack, I can wave my checkered flag. That means

that they have gotten the energy drained out of him in a very focused way.

Get him down and immediately bring out the toy. We'll start to play, okay?

So I told Liz, do what you always do. Get him going. And she did. She started

his engine going, and then off he went.

Come on.

There you go. Go, go, go.

Nice, beautiful.

And we got him to the first pit stop, which was his cat tree, and he was going

up and down and scratching and climbing and hanging from the thing.

Yeah!

Very nice. Yeah!

Finally gets to the top of it, and literally this kitten car just starts to

sputter, and he just stalls out under a table. Oh, look, look.

I know, I know. I got him. As a matter of fact, Remy's on the table eating a

treat, and Kimba's underneath him.

And in the past, this would have been a fight.

I got him. Don't worry about it.

I thought that that was going to be it with Remy. I was like, here it comes.

Go ahead. You disappear around that corner towards the patio.

Liz waves the toy just a little bit. Go ahead. Go ahead. Come on. Engine starts

up. Bang. He's back in.

Good boy.

Good boy. And goes straight through Michael's office. Good boy. Very nice.

I'm right behind him. I'm rooting him on. Come on. Good boy.

And good.

There you go. And bang. He finishes.

Kimba crossed the finish line.

We all crossed this finish line. I was really impressed with the amount of work

that Liz and Michael put in. I mean, these guys finished the racetrack, and

committed to the activity of boiling, simmering, and smurgling. And this took

Kimba's hurricane -like energy and brought it down to a spring shower.

Thank you for everything, especially restoring domestic bliss and mental

On that note, I'm going to take off because I couldn't have any better

words. All right, guys.

My peace of mind now is so much better that Remy is not getting attacked.

I'm not getting attacked.

I'm happy to have my wife back because Kim had totally hijacked the whole

relationship. Everything is just great.

Okay, Jackson, thank you. Take care.