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Cashmere's behavior has always been bad, but when I moved in with Dean, it

really got a lot worse.

She attacks Dean.

She gets into fights with Dean's cat, Darla, all the time.

Cashmere, stop that!

I'm afraid to open the door and find a dead cat.

I'm not feeling so certain Cashmere should be living here. This is impacting

relationship.

We're the proud owners of Turbo and Rio.

Unfortunately, Teresa doesn't always see the bad behavior. I wake up, I'll find

feces in random areas.

I always have to clean it up.

It's not that much work.

Very angry person. I didn't want these pets.

My daily routine would go so much smoother if I honestly moved out and

home.

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.

You all right?

I don't know. Cats have nine lives, but humans only have one.

I'm heading over right now to see Dean and Brenda and Brenda's cat, Cashmere,

who's threatening to break up their relationship.

Dean says that Cashmere is violent towards him, towards Brenda, and his

Darla. Man, this cat is just ripping up humans and cats.

Cashmere's violence is so bad that it's threatening to break up their happy

home. I'm going to make sure that that doesn't happen.

I'm Brenda.

I'm Dean.

And we've been living together for just about a year.

I have one cat, Cashmere. She's a domestic longhair, and she's four.

Cashmere's behavior has always been bad, but when I moved in with Dean, it

really got a lot worse.

She attacks me.

She attacks Dean.

She gets into fights with Dean's cat, Darla, all the time.

I'm afraid to come home sometimes and find a dead cat.

I think when Cashmere moved in, it was a bit more than I bargained for.

I don't want Darla to get hurt.

We have such a good relationship, and I'm worried that Cashmere is going to

that. Me too.

Having a cat that wants to hunt me down and attack me all the time, this is

impacting our relationship.

I can't even think about that.

I'm walking up the driveway. I look around me. I see dozens of cats. They're

everywhere. The smell that's outside their home is thick with cat urine and

testosterone. They've got an out -of -control feral colony.

Now, I haven't met Cashmere yet, but I'd be really surprised if these guys

weren't causing problems for her. Jackson, hi. I'm Dean. Hey, Dean. Hi,

Brenda. Hey, Brenda.

So, guys, what's going on?

Cashmere, my cat, is, um, she's a terror.

She attacks me on a regular basis.

She got me really bad last week.

She whips around and just bites the heck out of me.

She's attacked Dean several times.

Kashmir almost took out his eye. Are you kidding me? She got me across here. She

whipped around and got me in the face. I was freaking out. Oh, my God.

Now, we're talking about the fact that Dean has almost lost an eye. He had

down his face from just one attack from Kashmir. I don't like what I'm hearing

at all at this point.

is always attacking Darla. Darla is Dean's cat, but Darla cannot walk

the room without Cashmere chasing her down. Man, okay.

I don't want something horrible to happen.

Okay. That's pretty severe. Mm -hmm. All right. Guys, as I was coming up here, I

saw quite a few cats.

How many ferals are there around here?

I think there's around ten or so. Yeah.

They multiply.

Gee, well, that makes the problem worse. It's bad enough that Kashmir's got to

move into a house with another cat, but to be surrounded by the ferals like this

is like moving into the Alamo. She's got no territory, and maybe that's why

she's lashing out, whereas with Darla, she's Deem's cat. She's lived here for

years, so she's not as threatened by the feral population.

My worst fear is that Kashmir will severely hurt Darla, like maybe even

her. Yeah, I don't want to tell her that Kashmir's got to go.

It's getting very close to that.

You know, I have this fear that Dean's going to be like, that's it. You know,

this just isn't working out. I can't deal with you being devoted to a cat

this bad.

You know.

Dean, how are you feeling at this point? Do you feel this way?

Yeah.

I'm concerned that it's, you know, something really bad can happen.

Immediately. I was aware of the stakes in this situation.

I mean, Brenda has been living with Dean in his place for a year, and she's

afraid constantly that because of the problems with Kashmir, she and Kashmir

going to be out the door. That's pretty bad.

There's a lot of really concerning things going on here.

I need to get up, take a look around here, and see where the problem areas

okay? Okay. Let's just start looking around. All right.

Okay. Oh, hello, honey.

Now... Here's what I want to do.

While we got her in that position, I'm going to see what you normally do with

her. Just don't even think about me being in the room, okay? I'm going to

places with you. All right. First, I want to see Brenda interact with

You've got to remember, she's been with Kashmir for years and years, yet she's

afraid of her. And if you bring fear to an animal, they will bring aggression or

fear right back at you.

Ow, God.

Oh, okay.

I don't want you to get hurt. It only took a second and bang, cashmere really

went for her. And I'm talking hard because Brenda was so scared she was

over the top of cashmere's head. And when you do that to a potentially

aggressive cat, she's going to laugh out.

Ow, God. Okay, enough.

All right, enough.

Enough. I mean, this thing with her, like, you know.

lashing out at me like that that's fairly new probably oh

i've seen brenda interact with cashmere and of course it's time to see darla and

cashmere interact it's really important for me to see the natural behavior

patterns that are going to emerge when these cats have to deal with each other

here's darla well hello darla not too happy uh

sorry she likes to sit on top of me

Oh. And now, into a corner.

That's trouble.

She's basically cutting off... Anywhere for her to escape.

Exactly. Darla's in a rock and a hard place.

I know Jackson has to see how Kashmir and Darla interact, but it's terrifying.

I'm scared for Darla.

Now that got pretty ugly, but if there's one great big silver lining, it's in

Darla's inclination to go up. It's pretty obvious we got Darla here who's a

dweller. And the good news here is that's something I can work with. Your

homework is all about urban planning. You're going to build a superhighway, a

place where the cats can go from A to B without running into each other. That's

the superhighway.

We live in Los Angeles. It's a heavy traffic area, so I want to approach that

concept with these two cats. Let's start talking about all of the ways we can

approach the traffic inside to avoid these attacks.

Also, in urban planning, I really want you to do this exercise I call high

feeding. That is, I want you to have Darla being fed on the counter and

below her on the floor. Now, what I want to see is the elevator and that high

-rise coming down. Every time you feed them, see how far you can push it.

Let's bring down this feeding elevator just a little bit every day until we get

Darla on the floor with Kashmir. I can't help but noticing that there's a very

distinct Moroccan vibe in here.

Well, I'm a belly dancer.

That's amazing.

I would love for you to bring the fluidity of your dancing to your

with Kashmir because right now your movement, when it came to Kashmir, was

against the fluidity, I guess, right, of your movements as you dance.

I know that Brenda and Dean are doing fundamentally wrong things in

Kashmir that are helping trigger the attack.

I want her to practice her belly dancing around Kashmir. I guarantee you she's

going to get a different result. I'm really, really excited to see what

about that.

We have got the outside cats.

It's going to be my homework.

These cats have got to be taken care of. They have to be trapped. They have to

be neutered. They have to be returned to this area. Until then, we don't have a

prayer. I think Kashmir is acting out on Darla.

From the constant threat of feral cats, TNR, trap, neuter, return, is really the

only way, in my opinion, to control colonies. Otherwise, others will just

in. All right. It was great to meet you guys. And I will talk to you soon. Thank

you. All right. Bye.

Bye. There's so many obstacles that we have to overcome.

We have a lot riding on this.

There's Darla's safety, Dean's safety, mine.

Having our relationship not fall apart, this has got to work.

I'm here for my second visit with Dean and Brenda and Brenda's cat, Cashmere,

who the last time I was here was violent against people and especially feeds the

cat, Darla, who she was beating up on a regular basis. I watched Dean and

Brenda's homework, and I saw that they were doing the high -rise feeding with

Darla and Cashmere. However, Darla's still pretty high up there. Remember, we

wanted there to be a little bit of an elevator effect, and that's not

I also got to see Brenda belly dancing using those wonderful fluid motions to

approach Kashmir because last time I was here, she was using those stilted,

scared motions which attracted aggression.

And of course, I did my own homework. The guys from Fixed Nation and from Best

Friends came out here, took them to Fixed Nation, got them all neutered.

Come on, mister.

Look, I'm going in right now. I'm just hoping there's some progress, some good

news. Good to see you again. Good to see you as well.

All right.

Well, guys, I mean...

Looking around here, I can tell you the first thing that I noticed, and that is

you have moved some furniture around. Yes, we have. They've rearranged every

stick of furniture in this house to make it more palatable for Darla. She has

escape routes now, no dead ends, and I love seeing that.

I like it a lot better, and I think the cats do, too.

Well, talk to me about that. We haven't been attacked in the last couple weeks.

Oh, God, that's amazing.

That's so cool.

It's great.

And also, I'm sure not having intact males running around this area is a

huge benefit. There's going to be less spraying, which was adding to Kashmir's

aggression. Since the last time I was here, there hasn't been one incident of

Kashmir beating up Dean and Brenda, and that's major news.

How are things going with Kashmir and Darla?

Not good.

She's still attacking Darla whenever she walks into the room.

I still have a hard time.

The fact that Cashmere can't leave Darla alone.

I'm not feeling so certain Cashmere should be living here.

So we've got to do something about that. We need to keep expanding Darla's

confidence. Now Cashmere's made a lot of progress, but I know the most important

thing to Dean is Darla's safety. So for Cashmere's sake, and for the sake of

Dean and Brenda's relationship, I've got to show that these two cats can live

together.

So, as always, we're going to get up, take a look around, see what you've

okay? Okay. Come on, let's go.

I wanted to take a look at the high -rise feeding in action because I knew

I could help Darla out. Just get her past that challenge line and just get

to eat a little bit lower than she is right now. I want to try to encourage

Darla down one step, okay? So we're going to bring this little piece over

So we're going to start her up here, and then I'm going to move the dish, try to

get her down.

Meantime, you'll feed Kashmir down at the bottom here. Okay.

Come here, Darla.

Darla. Come here.

I could see Kashmir there eating, and I was just hoping that she was not going

to attack Darla.

Okay, so what I'm going to do, because I know she's hungry, I'm just going to

start moving it a little bit more, and then a little bit more.

Now we'll take it down a little bit more.

Oh, come on.

She's like, no, I'm not going to do it.

Okay, baby, go get that food. Now I'm going to step away, see if she takes

challenge.

And she's looking, looking, and...

A

girl!

Fantastic!

All right.

It was that simple. She just crossed that challenge line. And now I know that

Dean and Brenda going forward can get Darla closer and closer to Kashmir.

I want to keep moving, okay? Come with me. Now, the last time I was here, I had

this idea that I wanted Brenda to use her strength to get through her fear of

Kashmir, and that was her belly dancing.

I think this is fun.

I mean, I'll try anything if I think it's going to work. Man, I just love

move that you're doing. I wanted her to bring that fluid movement instead of the

stiff movement to see if that energy itself would change Kashmir's behavior.

Fan.

Fantastic. Pull yourself down to a crawl now. Let her smell. Let her smell.

Oh, baby.

Oh, I love it. Now pull back a little bit. Come back.

Congratulations. That is beautiful.

That was nice. That's beautiful.

We love that.

When I reached for her and she actually licked my fingertips, I almost teared up

because for her to do that when always before she would have bitten me or

scratched me somehow, I literally almost cried.

So let me just break through the homework that I have for you. The first

is, let's just talk about the high -rise feeding. So I do want to see you guys

get her down as close as we can to the floor. Next time I come back here, I

to see Darla all the way towards Kashmir.

The belly dancing exercise went amazingly well today. And Dean, I just

to start participating on a regular basis with Brenda because I still think

we need to move you through some fear.

I got a surprise for you. Hold on one sec, okay?

Okay, just grab the door behind you. Hey, guys.

This is my friend Kate.

Hi, Kate.

I brought my friend Kate over here.

Kate's my catification partner.

In the past, she's helped me make small spaces meet the needs of both the cats

and the humans. Yeah!

That's amazing.

I specialize in coming into people's homes and helping them really take a

at the environment so we can see what works best for the cats, but also what

works best for you.

She's going to help you guys remove all the last dead ends. I expect to come

back here and see Darla confident using her superhighway and no fights.

Have a great night, guys. Bye.

We've made a lot of progress with cashmere, but until Darla is safe from

the two of them are eating side by side on the floor, we're not there yet.

And it's not good for our relationship, and something's got to happen.

This has just got to stop.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Trapped neuter return, or TNR, is more cost -effective than trapping and

feral cats.

True or false?

The answer after this break.

True or false, trap -neuter -return or TNR is more cost -effective than

and killing feral cats?

And the answer is, true.

Spaying or neutering a feral cat is half as expensive as euthanizing one. One of

the many reasons TNR is a more effective, successful, and humane method

controlling feral populations.

I'm here for my final visit with Brenda and Dean, Brenda's cat, Cashmere. The

last time I was here, you still have Cashmere beating up Dean's cat, Darla.

I'm hoping this time I'm going to walk in there and we see super highway built

and we see peace between these two cats.

Jackson. Dean.

Good to see you, man. Come on in.

Hey, guys. So great to see you. You too.

Freaking amazing.

Look, we got Darla up on her superhighway. Oh, yeah.

You couldn't ask for anything more. I took a look at that superhighway and

instantly just bowled over. You see that Darla now has escape hatches, no dead

ends. So I was thrilled. How is the dynamic now between Darla and Kashmir?

They're doing so much better. They'll be in the same room together now.

Can we stop for a second?

Yeah. Amazing.

That's so great.

Also, I mean, the ferals. The fact that they were trapped and neutered and not

marking on the door anymore.

They're not howling at night. That's made a huge difference because she was

always on edge, and now she just kind of hangs out. Since your last visit,

Kashmir has not attacked us.

Fantastic.

Okay.

So, what I want to do now is go over your video homework.

Okay. And see what you guys have done since the last time I was here.

All right. So, we're making an extra large cat scratcher. I got to see this

fantastic cat superhighway go up. So, all the way around, just stupendous work

from Kate.

Jackpot! Also got to see Dean belly dancing some more. And I got to tell

since the last time I was here, now he has that same kind of flow in his arm,

and that's the way he approaches Kashmir, and he hasn't been beat up

So managed to get down another, you know, eight inches or so. Also in the

homework, I saw that Brenda and Dean were trying to do the high -rise

but she just wouldn't make that final leap down to the floor, and it gave me

idea for later.

Hey, man, great stuff.

Now. Let's get up and take a look around. Okay.

One thing that Brenda and Dean haven't been able to accomplish is having the

cats eating together on the floor. And I need to see that happen today if I want

to leave here feeling good about these two. What I want to do is push this

challenge line, get them even closer, get them on the floor at the same time

trying to eat.

I was a little bit afraid that we're going to see a fight break out here.

There we go.

Well, there she is. She's down.

Okay. And here.

Cashmere, let's go.

And you put it down.

Oh, my God. Pretty good, right?

Look at that.

Wow. Look at that. That.

Easy success, right?

They're only four feet from each other. Four feet from each other. Pretty

amazing right there. To actually see Kashmir and Darla eating there side by

was just a relief.

I never would have dreamed of being able to do that.

This is the potential that you guys can carry out every single day. Just to

break it down simply, if two cats who are fighting all the time can be...

a couple of feet from each other eating, that shows a real relationship instead

of one that's based on aggression and fear. That's fantastic.

So the first day I met you guys, there was always that chance that Brenda was

going to have to either get rid of cashmere or move out. How are things

right now for you? I mean, is everyone here for good?

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely. That ain't happening.

No. We like that. Yeah, we do. I would say this is a very happy ending.

We have so many ideas now to keep working with Darlene Cashmere. I'm going

get going. I just have to say thank you, Jackson.

I'm absolutely grateful.

All right. Bye -bye.

Bye, Jackson.

It truly is a new beginning, not just a happy ending.

We're the proud owners of Turbo and Rio.

Teresa doesn't always see the bad behavior. I wake up, I'll find feces in

areas.

I always have to clean it up. I didn't want these pets.

Just my daily routine would go so much smoother if I honestly moved out.

I'm on my way over right now to see Armin and Teresa and her two cats, Turbo

Rio. Now, Armin is complaining loudly that these two cats are turning their

entire place into a litter box.

Very angry person.

This couple's going to kill each other or their cats.

He wants something done right now, or he wants out of their five -year

relationship. My name is Teresa.

My name is Armin. We've been together five years.

Just moved in together, I'd say, three to four months ago.

And we're the proud owners of Turbo and Rio.

Rio's my female cat.

She is two years old, and she's totally antisocial.

Turbo is my baby boy.

I love him to death.

Unfortunately, Teresa doesn't always see the bad behavior in the morning when

she's leaving for work.

I wake up, I'll find feces outside of the litter box or in other random areas.

If a pile of clothes is left out, chances are it's been urinated on or

And the couch upstairs is always marked by one of the cats.

I'd say that there are accidents.

two to three times a week in the morning.

I always have to clean it up. I'll be in a meeting at 9 o 'clock at work, and

there's just 10 texts from him. Peed all over the couch, I had to clean, and,

like, I'm on my knees now cleaning.

Like, how could you not see this? You need to know every single thing I did.

Yeah. So I have to come home, I'm usually expecting this, and I, you know,

pretty much pick it up, I can't just leave it there. I didn't want these pets

necessarily.

Just my daily routine would go so much smoother.

if I honestly moved out and lived at home.

If he can't handle the animals, what happens when we get more serious and we

have kids? We can just, like, walk away from that. Kids are different.

I know, but Turbo is like our child.

We got him together, and, like, you should forgive him.

I would like to have him stay here and for him to adopt the animals fully as

his.

Hey, how are you? I'm great. My name is Teresa.

Hey, Teresa. I'm Jackson.

Armand. Nice to meet you. Armand. I'm Jackson.

What's this guy going to come in and do?

I mean, if it does work, I'm going to be shocked.

So, guys, tell me why I'm here today.

Well, we have two cats that just seem to make this relationship a lot harder on

us. Yike.

Okay. I've always had these cats during a relationship, but before he didn't

live with me. Once we moved in together four months ago, the cats have been

acting up and pee or poop outside the litter box.

And he'll have to clean it before he goes to work.

He gets mad at me and then texts me during at work and we get into a fight.

When she wakes up, she says she's never seen anything. And I'm like, okay, I

mean, okay, so you don't see it. But then when I wake up, I know what I see.

Armand is fed up. already after four months. That means that I have got to

them back because otherwise, I think he's just going to walk out. How old are

they? Turbo's three years old. He has domestic short hair. He's a male.

Rio is two years old.

She's the one that's pretty antisocial. She stays under the bed 20 hours a day.

Are you kidding me? She does not like human.

She'll never come downstairs.

She's always upstairs, under the bed. That's her spot.

It's like we have one cat.

and not to what you just described a feral cat right feral cat cares about

warmth shelter but people scared to death now i don't know if they're

with it we're gonna have to find out because that's not cool where are you

now how long do i have to work with uh i'd say i'd say i'm past the point i'm

very close to moving back home holy are you kidding me

Did you know that? I wish I was.

No. But I know he's been going home often. I didn't know he would just move

home. Armand has got a very limited investment in what's going on here

he can always walk.

Where do things happen? In our loft area.

Well, if upstairs is where the problem is, let's head up there. Come on, guys.

Teresa and Armand tell me that none of the bad behavior is happening

So I said, let's get up. Let's find out where all this is going on. Tell me

where the problems are located up here.

Right in this area.

We have this litter box.

Is this the only litter box in the house?

Yes, it is. Okay.

That's probably why it's the only place where pee and poop are happening as

well. This litter box is the cat world in this house. They basically want their

cat to disappear.

And you know what?

Rio's done it.

All right.

Come here, Turbo.

Come here, buddy.

Good boy.

Well, it's good to see that you got one cat with confidence.

Yeah. Turbo, I'm not worried about.

Rio, I am. Knowing that there's another cat in this home that's a lot more

scared than she is brave, that's something we're going to need to work

Now, what I need from you guys is I need to be alone in here for a few minutes

because I want to meet these guys.

Rio spends most of her life under this bed. My heart breaks for this little cat

and what she's going through right now.

Hi there.

Hi, sweetheart.

Would you like some treats?

Turbo.

Come here, buddy.

What is that?

Rio, my little nervous thing.

I wanted her to just make eye contact with me. To see a cat in a home with no

trauma reverting to a wild state, it's crazy.

Can you give me some blink?

Come here, baby.

Good girl, Rio.

You are a tough one.

There's an immediate difference between a feral cat and Rio.

The difference is that a feral would look at you and go really deep inside

themselves. Please make me invisible.

She wasn't trying to be invisible. She was scared stiff.

You can hang with me.

Good boy, Turbo.

You're the friendly of the two, aren't you?

Turbo was friendly, he was social, and I'm going to have to use him later on to

get closer to Rio.

I'm going to go talk to your mom and dad, okay?

I had to go downstairs, talk to Armand and Teresa, tell them what I had seen

today, and give them this homework.

We have some bigger issues than I thought we had when I first got here. So

homework is going to be centered around making the cats more a part of this

place, because right now they're kind of not.

It's about having beds, things out here that signify that you share space with

cats. And when that happens, we will start seeing them own different parts of

the house, especially Rio. I want you to get more litter boxes.

What I'd like to do is put them everywhere.

It was a little overwhelming. I didn't think he'd have all these things for us

to do, like more litter boxes.

You know, I already was fed up with the commitment I already had to make. So

it's going to take a lot from me.

In terms of human investment, Armand, you're like, you know what? I'm out. I

can't. Not going to work.

I have to have your commitment that no matter how bad it gets over the next

however many weeks, that you're hanging.

So do I have it from you?

Definitely. All right, man. That's where we start.

So now Armand's ready to make a commitment to stay.

Okay, we'll see.

If you have any issues whatsoever, call me.

Cool. All right, guys. Thank you so much. I could tell you right now that I

still have no idea if it's going to work or not.

With Rio, I look at that cat's eyes when I look under the bed, and it doesn't

want any part of me.

I'm here for my second visit with Armand and Teresa about their cat's turbo in

Rio. And, yeah, we got litter box problems in this house. We have peeing

pooping all over the place and a cat in Rio that won't even come out from under

the bed. But one of the big, big problems is the fact that Armand has got

foot out the door. Hey, Armand. So the homework was half human, half cat, and

here's hoping.

Good to see you guys.

You too.

So, how are things going here?

Everything is better than expected, but not perfect.

That's fine.

I'm not looking for perfect. I'm looking for better than expected.

We added three extra litter boxes all over the house. You had three extra. So

you have four total? We have four total, yeah, at the moment. Oh, man, that's

amazing. I wasn't expecting that at all. Turbo immediately used the litter box,

and then Rio came down.

She actually jumped in while Turbo was finishing up his business.

Wait a minute.

Rio's coming downstairs?

Yes. Which means Rio's coming up from under the bed.

Rio still is hiding under the bed, but it's definitely improving.

Rio is coming down from upstairs because Turbo is her social bridge. He's her

leader. She follows him. At the same time, Turbo is coming downstairs more

because they've exploded the territory. The litter box is downstairs.

Now we've got both cats coming downstairs, and that's huge.

Ever since we put the litter boxes out, there hasn't been one accident in the

morning during that hour -and -a -half period.

Very nice. Thank you so much.

Now that's what I like to see.

Responsibilities with the cats have lightened up because there is no mess

to clean up in the morning.

You're sitting here going, everything's not perfect yet. And I'm like, what's

not perfect?

To be completely honest, the only thing that really makes me angry right now is

Rio scratching the furniture.

Right. Because I can't sleep.

Rio was coming out from under the bed in the middle of the night and scratching

this piece of furniture in the room. Now, of course, that only lasts for

90 seconds as opposed to the hours that they were waking him up before.

But if it's bothering him, we can still work on it. Last time I was here, one of

my big chunks of homework for you, our mom, was more, you know, in the line of

investment. I didn't want you to have that soft landing of being able to walk

out of here, go home.

Tell me, is that still something that's on the table?

It's diminished the possibility, but it's still on the table.

Because sleep is so important to him, I am scared that he might go home.

Armand has got to stop with these threats of walking out. I want to see a

unified front.

You shot a lot of video homework for me that I want to take a look at, so let's

watch some video.

Anything can scare Rio off.

Watching Armand approach Rio on the stairs...

He would walk up very scared with a scared body language. That's something I

know I'm going to have to work on.

Turbo seems to enjoy the new litter box.

Oh, there we go.

Now, this is one of the reasons that I love video homework in the first place.

What I got to see is the exact preference that the cats had for litter

And instantly, the cats took to it. They expanded their territory. There hasn't

been one incident since the last time I was here. That problem is solved.

Bingo.

That's good stuff.

Now, I know we've still got issues. I know we've still got problems that we

to go over. Let's get up. Let's start taking a look around. You can tell me

you've done, okay? Sounds good. Come on.

It was time to go upstairs and check out all the environmental changes that

Armand and Teresa had done. And there was Turbo on the stairs.

Cool. Hi, Turbo. Hi, Turbo.

And there's Rio sitting right there. There was Rio.

Rio, who spends 20 hours a day under the bed.

Seeing Rio sitting on the stairs, I thought it was a perfect opportunity for

to tell Armand to approach Rio with confidence, with assuredness and calm.

Now, what I want to see, Armand, is...

How you would normally just walk up to her. I just want you to address her the

way you always would.

All right.

Let's try this.

What's up, Rio?

Hey.

Armand, why don't you just sit on the stair below her?

Nice.

Good move, man.

Oh, wow.

This is rare. Nice coming.

Yeah, I never get to really pet her. She'll just look at me, lock eyes, and

into the bed. She, Armand, is absolutely trusting you. Believe me, I spend my

entire life studying cat body language. That's exactly what we wanted.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. I think that we've turned a corner. I think they both know it. And

I think the complaints they have now are very manageable. That being said, we're

only sort of at a halfway point in terms of his investment. We've got to drive

this home. I want him to consider himself a parent to these cats. The

thing that I came here for, for the most part, is done.

Other things have reared their head. And that is what this week's homework is

about. The first thing I want to talk about is the turbo swap.

What I want is for you, Armand, to start taking over the role of turbo. So the

way you're going to do that, first and foremost, is through play. Rio follows

turbo all over the place. Now I want Armand to take over the role of the

bridge. She's got to know that Armand is the one who brings good things into the

world. And when that happens, the concept of him going home to his parents

sleep, that'll be out the window. Rio has...

issues that we have to deal with. We're going to block off the bed. This is

pushing that line in her to say, out here there's good stuff, okay? Now,

talk about one of the big problems, which is the scratching. Keeping you up

night, destroying the furniture.

Right next door to that, you get a much better scratching post.

Once they take to that scratching post, we got to get it away from your end of

the bed. First of all, she wants to claim the room as her visual and as a

marker. Let her have that marker, but not by your ears.

Now, I do want to see you guys bring in a few other cat -flavored things in

here, okay? So with that in mind, hold on one second. I got something for you,

okay?

Just a little present that I think you might like.

How do you like that?

It's just a little bitty gift.

It's just a little bitty gift. Yeah, really functional, I think, right? Wow.

a catification sense, I think that that might work really well. When Jackson

brought the tree in, I first thought, where are we going to put this thing?

As we were talking about catification, I went outside and I brought them in a

really, really big surprise. It was a huge cat tree that I thought that Ria

would really appreciate because every place that she owns is another place

her confidence grows.

When I first met you, it was always about her cat.

Her cats were driving you crazy. Guess what? By the time I come back here next

time, they're your cats, right?

All right, guys.

I need him to up his sense of guardianship. If he sees himself as a

these cats, then I think we'll be all right. But there's no promises here. All

right, take care, guys.

I'm here for my final visit with Armand and Teresa and their cats, Turbo and

Rio. Here's the strange thing. The first day I came here, I was dealing with a

pooping and peeing problem that was sending Armand out the door. Now, that

fixed pretty quickly, but it highlighted a new problem. It was Rio's confidence.

That cat was under the bed almost 24 hours a day. I wanted Armand to

new relationship with Rio that would help build her confidence. And

I'm walking in today to a human relationship that's been patched up and

who has found her confidence.

How are things here?

Great. We've been doing great. The cats have been great, too. Tell me, what's

been going on?

Well, every piece of the homework you gave us gave her confidence somehow.

The classification of the house, the turbo swap.

Talk to me about the turbo swap. I'm really interested in that one.

Yeah, so I just tried to be Rio's big brother, but the human form. So in order

for her to follow me and to, let's say, do what I want her to do, as in approach

the tree.

or show her where the new litter boxes are and whatnot, I would hang the toy

from my pocket, and it would just be hanging on the floor, and it would be

-a -ling and whatnot.

Oh, my God. Yeah.

Oh, my God, that's so cool.

Coming from Armand, coming from a guy who couldn't care less about the cats.

a very angry person.

They were always her cats. Now he's walking around dangling a feather out of

pocket for Rio's sake, and that, to me, is something that deserves a lot of

props. Has there been any return of the pooping and peeing around the house?

No, absolutely no accident outside the litter box. Nothing on the couch.

outside. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

That's what I want to hear. That was the biggest issue with Turbo, and that's

eradicated. Like, it's amazing.

So we had, the last time I was here, we still had some scratching issues.

We took your suggestion, got a bigger scratcher that was appropriate for her

height. She hasn't used the chair since.

At all?

No, not at all.

This is like Miracle House. Everything that you guys tried sounds like it

worked. So I've been so committed with these cats that I feel like if I go

I'm doing them a disservice. Like I'm leaving them now. Wow.

This is the same guy the first day I met him. Just my daily routine would go so

much smoother if I honestly moved out. And today he's taking responsibility for

a bond with an animal. Now that's success.

What I want to do is go over your video journaling. Okay.

So let's take a look.

Armand deserves so much credit. He single -handedly blocked off the

the bed. Armand and Teresa have embraced the concept of catification.

She comes up and she'll be very, very playful.

She'll want to constantly rub herself on my hand.

And the best thing I saw was nighttime video shots of Rio getting up into the

bed with Teresa and Armand.

Huge transformation in that cat.

There's no more animosity towards the animals anymore because of all the work

put through and my new relationship with them, so to speak, especially Rio.

Take a look around the space.

Awesome. Let's go. Cool.

Honestly, there's only one place I wanted to go. The huge cat tree that I

them last time.

There's our boy.

Hi, Turbo. There's our boy, Turbo.

I mean, look at him right now, by the way. This tree is like the best thing.

They own this tree. Really, there's one thing I need to see. I need to see Rio

up here with Turbo.

So if you don't mind, Armand, if you don't mind going to get her, just place

up here like you were talking about, like you did before. That would be

Cool. I asked Armand to go get Rio and put her up in the tree with Turbo so I

could see her new confidence.

How do you feel at the moment?

I'm a little nervous.

So Armand is coming down the stairs with Rio.

She's struggling a little bit. She's nervous. She sees me.

So Armand puts Rio up on the tree, and immediately she looks back.

She looks around.

I think at that moment she's going to bolt.

But then she's settled in.

And then it gets beautiful because Turbo starts grooming her head.

And at that moment I go, yeah, that's it.

That's as good as it gets.

What's up, Rio?

You too, Turbo.

You seem proud of her.

I honestly love these cats.

To be honest, yeah.

Armand's really stuck with the play. He surprised me. Now I know that he loves

me and he loves the cat.

Thank you so much, Jackson, for everything.

You changed our lives.

The animals embrace me as well, and that's something that I never embraced

myself. I'm almost like a provider for Rio, which obviously will transpire to

the future where I will provide for a family.

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