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This season on My Cat From Hell, I've successfully dealt with hundreds of

and now I'm traveling all over the country helping more families in need.

We are desperate.

We can't go on like this.

Well, he is a bitch, and we are her bitches.

You're trying to show how loving he is and then he bites you in the face.

As couples reach their breaking point. Will you stop filming for a minute?

What's the point of having the cat? You can't just give away a cat because it's

mean. Maybe I need to find her another home. That kills me even thinking about

that. Feinstein goes away. I will go with him. So he's not leaving because I

know they can't let me leave. We definitely had arguments about the cat.

put up with it anymore.

I'm up against the wall with it. If you ever think about getting rid of Wolfie,

we're going to pack our bags and go that way. I don't want to live. Let him go.

Choosing between whiskey and a baby.

I can't think about that.

I'm challenged with some of the most ferocious and oddest cases in my life.

never watched a cat sleep before. Wake him up or something.

This is disgusting.

Are you kidding me? But I know I can make a difference.

This is what I was looking for. It's amazing.

For cats and their families.

It doesn't get old, right?

Jackson is really the last resort.

How do you like me now?

Jackson, you can't help this cat, then nobody can.

My name's Jacques. I'm kind of a crazy skydiver, and I have two crazy Savannah

cats.

Oh! These cats are thrill -seekers like me. She will fight you tooth and nail.

Make eye contact with her, she explodes.

These Savannah cats are ruining my life.

We've had Wolfie for nine years or so. That's been about nine years.

Wolfie will... Crash the crap out of you.

Oh! I mean, she's got me in the face. She's got me near the eye. Everybody is

afraid of her. There's going to have to be a change.

We can't go on like that.

I am in Austin, man. You know how psyched I am? Southern food, film

and, of course, live music. Speaking of music, other than cats, it's kind of my

thing. Let's rock.

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.

I'm here to see about a few savannas, Murillo and Darwin. They're domesticated

wild cats, actually outlawed in many places, but here in Austin, they're

Jacques is a skydiver, and his cats, Murillo and Darwin, they're getting into

this parachute stuff. These guys are threatening to make his next jump the

jump.

My name's Jacques. I'm kind of a crazy skydiver, and I have two crazy savanna

cats.

I'm from Austin, Texas. I'm a professional skydiver, and these cats

-seekers like me. They keep things interesting, but sometimes it's a little

interesting.

They'll claw furniture.

She's eating a metal rod.

Scratch lines all over this painting.

They'll jump onto my vent hood.

And one day I'm worried it's just going to come crashing down on my whole

kitchen. It's kind of a problem.

I've had Morello and Darwin since they were eight weeks old. One's a female,

one's a male. The female is named Morello.

And she will fight you tooth and nail. You make eye contact with her, she

explodes, hissing and growling, and all of a sudden you have these grown men

jumping over the couches, running away from this cat. She was coming towards

She's just that scary.

Darwin is my four -year -old Savannah.

He's constantly meowing.

These Savannah cats are ruining my life.

I'm constantly worried that the cats might get into my skydiving gear or my

friend's skydiving gear. At times, you've been known to be curious about

lines. Possibly rip up some internal components that could cause a

later. All of a sudden, you've got a major catastrophe going on. It's very

important that Jackson can come over and help me out because some of these

situations can be very, very dangerous if they don't get taken care of.

Hey, man, how are you? Good. I'm Jackson. Chuck.

Chuck, it is good to see you, man. I got a feeling I'm here for that.

Yes. I heard that guy all the way down the hallway.

Oh, yeah.

Which one is that?

That's Darwin.

Whoa. I've never seen a cat jump higher than a savannah before.

Well, take a look at that. That really worries me. And I'm actually watching.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, God.

Dude.

I can't believe that didn't just come down. That is a disaster waiting to

happen.

Do you have a routine with them?

Play, exercise?

I mean, they have such high needs.

So I give them one session in the evening when I get home.

Dude, anybody who gets a Savannah is making an investment, let alone two

Savannahs. These guys have certain needs, and these Savannahs are not

those needs met.

The other half of the story is Morello, who you haven't met yet, and she's more

wild. He's F5, and she's an F2.

This cat is a mix between a domestic cat and a serval, a wild cat.

F2 means she is only two generations away from being a serval, a wild cat.

Darwin is an F5. That means he's farther away from a wild cat, closer to a

domestic cat. So she'll bite, scratch, claw, whatever.

She's bit? Oh, yeah.

Darwin also sometimes has an affinity for the lines with parachute equipment,

I have to shoot him away from that.

Wait, wait, wait.

He plays with your parachutes? Well, I don't let him. The guy plays with your

parachutes? Just trying to play with whatever he can play with. Dude, wait.

on. You just made me sweat. Look at that.

I mean, this is dangerous. This is life or death.

One puncture mark, and Jacques falls out of the sky.

What I want to do, take a look around. Sounds good. Let's do it, man.

Got a lot of good information, but it's time to get up, meet the cats, and see

what I can do for them.

If you don't mind, I am going to spend a minute with Morello.

Cool? Knock yourself out?

Well, hopefully not. I'll be back.

Hey, girlfriend.

They say Jackson's the cat daddy, but I don't know how he's going to deal with

Morello. I'm kind of worried for his safety in there.

You look like you mean business.

There is Morello, an S2 Savannah, cornered in a bookcase.

And I'm not going to lie to you.

It scares me.

Hi, girlfriend.

Can I come over and say hi to you?

I don't think I like your tail. Ooh, hey.

All right, cool.

Cool. The tail on this cat coiled like a snake, shaking from rage. That cat was

ready to explode.

Listen, listen.

I just want to come over and say hi.

Can I come over and say hi to you? Man, you genuinely are pretty scary.

And I don't scare too easy.

Hi.

Whoa. Can I come closer?

Hi.

It takes every ounce of courage in my body to come closer to

her testing Morello's challenge line, letting me know that this F2 is wild.

It's okay. It's okay.

Ah, damn.

As I'm sitting there with Morello, I realize that I'm not seeing Morello as a

domestic cat. I'm seeing her as a big, wild, hybrid question mark.

In a perfect world, this isn't the perfect world for her. Wow.

That's pretty intense.

It is really intense, man.

And with our boy right here, Darwin, totally different, right?

Absolutely. Now, I see we've got the parachute equipment here. Show me what

work with.

I just want to get a grip on what he likes to play with, like why he's

to that stuff in the first place. So I say the first thing he tends to get

attracted to.

This is a cat playground. Are you kidding me?

Dude, what happens if he bites through one of these?

And you could lose steering on a whole half of the parachute, and so it'll just

be flapping above your head.

I'm terrified right now. It's not the best cat toy, I will agree.

One hole in one parachute, and it's over. I got my work cut out for me.

And I've got to give you some homework, all right?

Sounds like a plan.

All right. You've got to amp the play up. I know you've got a job, but you've

got to find the time. These are savannas. They've got high play slash

drives. You've got to play into it. I guarantee you that if Jacques was having

an appropriate amount of play with his cat, you wouldn't have Darwin screaming

his head off.

The other form of exercise I want you to do is right here, where you go in and

take these guys on walks.

All right? All right.

It's not going to happen tomorrow.

I've tried taking them for walks on the leashes before, and it didn't really

work out. If you can get into the elevators and just take a ride up and

with them, that's a really huge goal for the next time I come back.

Final little bit of homework.

I care whether you live or die, man. Please just don't unpack this parachute

the house. I'll be back in a few weeks. If you have any problems in the

meantime, just give me a call, all right?

All right, thank you. Hi, man. It was great to meet you. I don't really know

all this is going to play out. These cats are pretty wild, and I'm not really

sure if they can be tamed.

I'm back in Austin for my second visit with Jacques and his high -flying

savannas, Morello and Darwin. Now, the last time I was here, these cats were

tearing up his apartment and his parachute gear.

and Morello was tearing up anyone who crossed her path.

Now, I saw on video homework, Jacques is spending more time playing with Morello

and Darwin, which is key to Savannah's, and I've even seen him walking Darwin on

a leash, which is great. Good boy.

Now, all I can hope for is that these wild cats are just a little bit more

Hey, man.

How's it going? How are you, Jacques? Good. Welcome back to Austin. Thanks,

So, tell me all about it, man.

What's going on with them?

So we're making some good progress. Darwin has been really taking to some of

homework assignments and doing pretty good. Cool. I was able to get him

I was able to get him all the way down to the pool area. That's amazing.

Now, let's talk about Morello.

Morello, we've been making good progress, but it's very small chunks.

Okay. The struggle to put the leash on her was just an incredible amount of

work. Yeah. She just wants to cower in fear. Okay.

The whole walking exercise, Darwin got the hang of it. Morello, on the other

hand, had some issues. One's an F2, one's an F5. They are two totally

cats. F2 means she is only two generations away from being a serval, a

All right, what else?

Playing with the cats more, it's made a noticeable difference, especially with

Darwin, where he's not meowing incessantly whenever I'm home now. The

I was here, it was a constant.

stream of darwin the best change from day one until now it's got to be that

darwin's a lot more calm the big concern was the parachute with skydiving

equipment there's still an issue all right so last question i got for you

about the environment are we still having

They're still jumping, yep. They're still getting up on the vent hood.

Yeah, and of course I planned for that. And I got a big surprise for you later

on today.

Here's what I want to do. Let's get up, man. Sure. I got something really

special for Jacques, but before I reveal that, I want to spend some time with

the cats.

There is Darwin, and you can tell by the lump under the bed.

Oh. We've got Morello there.

Okay. Hello, my boy.

Hello, my boy.

There's Darwin. He was much more grounded. I know that this homework is

off. Now, this one.

I'm going to get down to her level here.

It's okay, baby.

It's okay, baby.

It's okay, my love.

She's like, I remember you. I kicked your butt last time.

Now, listen, last time I was here, my experience with Marilla was not nice.

Damn. I was genuinely scared.

Good girl.

Bye. Now today, if I can just get her to regard me in a peaceful way as opposed

to attacking me, then I know we've made progress.

If we can get her to eat, life is good.

You want that?

Good girl.

Come on, my love. Come get.

There we go. Good girl.

To be, I can be at this level with her.

I feel cool.

I see the cat coming out of her.

There's a sweet side of her I'm seeing today that I just did not see last time.

So that's a pretty big deal for me.

This time around, I'm hearing that she's social. She plays, and the result is

fantastic. Dramatic change has happened to Morello's behavior.

Actually, I couldn't even believe it. That was pretty cool.

Now, let's go to the place that I know makes you a little nervous, right? Yeah.

Right here.

Oh, yeah.

That would probably be Kate. All right. Let's go ahead and let her in.

Hi. Hi, I'm Kate. Jacques, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Well, hello there.

Hello. Kate is my catification partner.

Jacques, why don't you tell her the problem?

They're jumping straight up to there, and then they jump from that onto this.

I see a great cat superhighway around here. I'm giving them something of their

own where they can really take advantage of that.

I can say I'm a little bit nervous.

My main concerns are either the quality of craftsmanship won't be high enough or

the style won't match what I currently have.

So, Kate, I don't know if you know this or not, Jacques is a professional

skydiver. There's been stories of Darwin actually getting into the parachute

gear and scratching that up as well. Not good. Not a good day. Not a good day.

You've never had life or death consequences before, have you? No, this

stakes.

We are going to make one killer piece of catification, and in that land, that.

They'll never happen, okay?

No more of that. You're making me crazy.

What a face.

Oh, my God.

On that note, I will see you later. Okay, see you later. Thank you.

Once the catification is done, that's got to be home base for Morella by the

time I get back here next time. Now, let's talk some homework.

I want you to continue the walking work, okay? I want Morella to watch Darwin

getting the vest put on, going out, doing all that.

Just to even be in the hallway, that idea of being around people, around

environments at all, is going to be hugely helpful.

Now, we move into the second part of this. I want you to continue playing,

want them to play in this area, right out here.

Now, I want to bring Morello out to the social space. Once I see that, then I

know that she's moving closer to the domestic cat and a little further away

the wild cat.

Now, with the catification, our end game is Morello being out here, not in the

bedroom, not undercover, here.

I'm still not 100 % sold on the idea that Morello's going to get completely

fixed. I think that she has too much wild in her. Honest to God, are you

nervous? It's far less nerves than jumping out of a plane, so I think we're

making progress. We're in the right direction.

In my line of work, in order to reach success, it's part about analyzing the

and part about analyzing the human. In this case, I'm getting to know his cats,

but I still know very little about Jacques. So I figure it's time to get

his world and learn about his love of jumping. I feel like kind of incomplete.

feel like I need to experience flying.

You take me there?

Jacques has been in my world of cats. Now I'm heading into his world of

weightlessness. It's time to fly, baby.

You ready?

No. Woo!

Wow! What a feeling, man. That's insane.

I got like a little glimpse of what it must be like to be Jacques.

And what cats feel like, for sure.

You can barely breathe, man. Flying is cool.

Man, thank you so much. Man, that was so much fun.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

What is the percentage of North American homes that have at least one cat?

Is it A, 35%, B, 24%, or C, 39 %?

The answer after this break.

What is the percentage of North American homes that have at least one cat?

C, 39%. And in total, there are approximately 95 .6 million owned cats

United States.

So I'm here for my last visit with Jacques and his cats, Morello and

when I left him, my friend Kate was showing up to catify the joint.

Hopefully, I'm walking in to see her ultimate masterpiece. I'm totally

Well, what's up, man? How's it going? How are you, man? Pretty good. Good to

you. You too.

So, Jacques Howard.

Whoa!

Are you kidding me?

I have never actually had a build go this beautifully before.

The shelves, the color, the range hood, everything that I asked Kate to do, she

knocked out of the park.

Hopefully, the cats are into it, too.

All in all, I would say...

Kate did you and your cats kind of a solid, yeah? She definitely went above

beyond. I'm really in love with the work that Kate did of bringing some of the

natural world into a kind of sleek, modern design.

The first time I came over here, when Darwin hit this thing, oh, I just about

crawled out of my skin. And those days are over. They're just so incredibly

happy. They're just here all the time.

Good news, man.

With Darwin, he has a huge new playground to play in. He's able to play

expend his energy. He's not scratching on paintings.

And that's what I'm most impressed with.

Talk to me about Morello. Morello hanging up top?

She is up there constantly.

She knows that she's safe. She's been able to take in the world and relax a

little bit more.

She's, you know, like out in this space, just kind of hanging out. And that's

something that she didn't always do.

So now...

I would love to be able to just give her a little bit of treat here. That would

be really swell.

What do we got?

Here you go, my love.

Morella will always be a wildcat. Remember, that's how she was bred. She's

F2. She's only two generations removed from a wildcat. She will never be a lab

cat. But to see her out and enjoying her home, man, that's a huge

accomplishment.

And they're just completely calm and relaxed all the time.

Now that Jackson's come in and been able to give these cats an environment where

they can be calm, they don't have these issues. So it's been great.

Last time I was here, per usual, I asked you to document your homework.

Okay.

Let's see what you got this time.

I've got to tell you, looking at video homework, the first thing that strikes

me, Jacques playing them up to these certain areas. I love the fact that the

cats love it.

Also in video homework, I got to see Jacques walking Morello on a leash,

is great.

Look at that. Someone's petting Morello. That's amazing.

That's the kind of thing that I couldn't have even imagined happening a short

time ago, and I had to see it to believe it.

Great stuff.

I mean, I feel like I've got my home back. I've got, you know, like an actual

home base and one that people want to come to.

So it's been great.

I couldn't be happier for that cat because she deserved it. I felt so bad

her. I've seen a lot of good things about Morello. Now it's time to check in

Darwin. I'm going to grab a toy out. I want to see if I can get Darwin moving

around. Oh, my God, I would die if he just jumped.

Yeah, boy!

Good boy.

Oh, God, I love that.

That's amazing.

When I first met these savannas, they were getting no exercise and letting out

their energy in the wrong ways. Morello by attacking people and Darwin by

jumping on the stove hood and shredding up Jacques' parachute equipment.

Now, with this catification project complete, they're getting their energy

in the appropriate places.

Now, I can't help but notice something.

I see a parachute in here, but that must mean something. It must mean that you

feel somewhat safe, right?

Absolutely. I mean, they've got so many other distractions now, like this isn't

nearly as much fun to them as everything else that's going on.

That means mission accomplished. I think I'm out, man.

Your job's not over yet.

All right.

Oh, God.

I'm here at Texas Skydiving. Now, the weightlessness of indoor skydiving was

enough for me, but I'm happy to support Jacques by watching him in his element.

That was so cool.

Sounds great. Man, it's so good. As you come down safely, we've got a cat -proof

parachute.

Morello Darwin doing all right.

They're doing great. And my job is done, man.

Thank you. It's been a pleasure.

It really has been. Take care of yourself, okay?

I will. Thank you.

I'm here in Austin. I'm on my way to go see B. John and Heather and their cat,

Wolfie, who's a Maine Coon. And back in the day, Maine Coons were a favorite of

pirates and sea captains.

And actually, she is kind of like a pirate, slicing and dicing, pooping

she wants to. And I'm going to go over and see if I can teach this cat some

manners.

I'm Heather.

And I'm B. John. And we have been together for over 16 years.

We've had Wolfie for, I think, nine.

It's been about nine years.

Oh! Wolfie pretty much will scratch the crap out of you.

Oh!

She's got me in the face. She's got me near the eye.

On the hands.

There's no warning sign whatsoever.

It's terrorizing. Wolfie is definitely violent towards other people.

I mean, my friend who was over in Iraq, I told him to come and help us with this

a little bit, and he said, hell no.

Wolfie is stalking them.

She's almost like just a little serial killer just waiting out there in the

dark.

It's ridiculous.

I love Wolfie because she's so bad and we're so similar.

Wolfie poops probably two to three times a day everywhere.

My jeans. Your socks.

My socks. My laptop bag.

She uses her toys to cover up her poop. I think it's really funny.

I get frustrated with Heather because she thinks that when Wolfie behaves

it's a joke, and I don't think it is.

I feel a little bit of resentment for Heather's behavior sometimes.

She's like my little cat best friend.

I love you, honey, and we're pretty.

See, we're pretty together. There's going to have to be a change.

We can't go on like this.

If you ever think about getting rid of Wolfie, we're going to pack our bags and

go that way.

I'm going to go with her.

Hey. Hello.

Hi.

I'm Jackson. I'm Bijan. Nice to meet you. Heather. Hey, Heather. Nice to meet

you, too.

Welcome to Austin. Thank you very much.

Strawberry lemonade.

Cheers. Thanks for coming. What am I doing here?

Our cat, Wolfie, displays aggression towards friends and family.

Even our neighbor, who happens to be a sheriff, he won't come over.

And he has a gun.

I kind of can't wait to see that one, to see a sheriff afraid of a cat.

And another strange thing that she does when she uses the bathroom on the floor

is she will take articles of my clothing.

Seriously?

Yummy.

She actually took one of my shoes this morning and covered up her poop with one

of my shoes. With a shoe?

With my shoe. Get out of here. Yeah.

I got to tell you, on a scale of 1 to 10, Wolfie covering up her poop with

Bijan's shoes is an 11. But it does make sense because Wolfie is going through

the ancient ritual of hiding her scent from predators.

What is it about her that you love?

We're two peas in a pod.

You two?

Like, you bite and scratch and poop on the floor? I bite and scratch.

And you don't appreciate this at all? No. No, I don't. To me, they're behavior

issues. To her, they're more nuances.

That pretty much sums it up. So let's get up and get moving, huh? Okay. Come

Oh, there's quite the human dynamic between Bijan and Heather. Heather

this is all kind of funny, and Bijan, not so much. He's not happy with this.

There we go.

Seriously? Yeah. Like, right off the bat?

Yeah. Yeah.

Starts right at the doorway.

Well, quite embarrassing. Wolfie's poop is concentrated by the front door, which

says that she's territorially insecure. In fact, she's so insecure that she's

pulling household objects over that poop, basically cementing her poop's

in the territory.

It's almost like she is booby -trapping the house.

You know? I don't think that that would work. Oh, okay.

Earlier, Heather and Bijan told me that the sheriff next door was actually

coming over, which is perfect. Hey, how are you doing? How are you? Good to see

you. Come on in. Because we do know that Wolfie is violent with people who come

through that front door. How are you? I'm Jackson.

Who better to try it out on except the guy with a bulletproof vest?

And there is Wolfie. Of course, this is the first time I get to meet Wolfie. So

this helps me to see, is it just about her defending territory, or can she just

be handled by people?

Uh, if you don't mind, try to handle Wolfie here.

Oh, my gosh.

Good. You're handling her totally confidently. That's great.

And, all right, just see if you can get through that one, that one. Go ahead and

hold on to her.

And the sheriff picks up Wolfie.

No time flat. Wolfie wants to pick a fight. She's growling, hissing. She spit

few times.

Okay, put it down, put it down.

She just locked eyes with him and then went for a bite. At that point, game

for the sheriff. She has plenty of confidence. It's just expressed in the

way. Thanks for coming over, man. Thank you very much.

We actually did get great information there for sure, but she really didn't

any hesitation.

The thing is, I tend to see, like, especially if you hand, you know, I

you to hand her over to him to see if that would freeze her a little bit.

She's ready to go after it. Oh, yeah. So that was normal what you just saw? Oh,

yeah.

That's normal. If anybody, I mean, normally it's her running and, you know,

my parents again, she'll, I mean, I don't even know how to explain it. Just

dog. That was pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.

How does it make you feel to have, A, your neighbor, and, B, a police officer

get hit by your cat like that?

It's unnerving, to say the least. It's embarrassing.

I mean, while it was happening, I wasn't looking at you guys. I was looking at

him. I mean, did you know?

Oh, really?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it makes me feel.

Yeah, it was a nervous time for me. My heart was, like, going through.

Well, for sure, for sure. And you know what the funny thing is? You know what

you said?

Her heart is beating like crazy. I mean, the two of you can definitely feed off

each other.

That I saw for sure.

But also, you know, the other thing I saw was when she was clinging on to you

and then to him.

Those mitts she's got on her hand, man, when she wants to hurt you, yeah, they

got big old mitts. You know what's really interesting, by the way? Do you

that Maine Coons, because they were bred up north and they were bred as working

animals in the winter, those feet, they actually act as snowshoes, right?

That's why we look at those feet and we go, oh, those are mitts. Those are

snowshoes, right?

But when you have violent snowshoes, You got a problem. Yeah. And that was a

problem. Yeah. All right, guys.

Good. I'm glad we got that done. It really does help me a lot. But in the

meantime, let's keep going. So now I got to spend some time with Wolfie.

All right, Wolfie, my dear.

Hi.

You don't seem scared. Ooh.

Man, you just set a boundary, don't you?

I'm more scared of you than you are of me, huh?

All right, listen.

I just want to say hi to you.

If I'm this close, is it all right?

Hey.

Ow. Wow, you mean business, and you mean business fast.

Come here now.

All right, just a little. Ow.

She came at me hard, and let me tell you, it hurts. Damn it. I am seriously

thinking to myself, how am I supposed to help this cat when I can't even get

close to her?

Let me pet you, all right? My first impressions of Wolfie was that

she's dangerous.

She hit me,

and she wanted to hurt me with claws that are obviously not

clipped. That combination was not a good one.

Okay, okay, okay.

It's clear that Wolfie is territorially insecure. I mean, not only does she mark

by pooping, but she also violently lashes out to defend her space.

Okay. Now that was an experience.

What catch you got there?

Holy moly.

Wow. It didn't take much, let's just put it that way. But I got something for

you, okay? Just hang out for a minute, will you? All right.

I saw his hands. I was mortified. Wolfie tore him up.

How do you like me now?

I love it. I love the idea of the Maine Coon being the official pirate cat.

Maine Coons are perfect examples of cats that were bred for a job. They kept

those guys from dying because they killed the mites on board.

The first thing is, we're going to do the thing called walk the plank.

I want you to do some work with shelving in that main living room. I want her to

have a little bit of vertical world.

I want to get her up high, away from people, allow her to survey what's going

without getting on the ground. That way, she'll feel safe so she won't attack

and scratch.

Let's talk about the poop deck.

So we're going to try a different type of litter box and different type of

litter. I want them to get a completely different type of litter box, really low

-sided so she's not getting in, just walking on. I want to reassociate the

litter box with that area. She needs to put that mark down, put it in an

appropriate place.

Now, here's the next thing I want you to do. All right?

Ever done this with her before?

Taken her for a walk?

Oh, my gosh. Oh!

Oh, this is exciting, is it not? Or we have to expand her territory.

We have to expand that sense that not just this area, all of this out front is

yours, too. The territory doesn't end with the walls. It ends out here, and

won't feel the need to defend that one little chunk of land.

All right, guys, I'm off. All righty. Great to meet you. Good to meet you.

you. If you've got any questions, you know where to find me, right? I kind of

have my reservations about whether or not you'll be able to stick to the plan

of... Action. Bet me. Deal. All right.

I'm back in Austin. I'm outside Heather and Bijan's place for my second visit

with Wolfie.

Oh! Oh!

Last time, Wolfie was attacking, pooping.

Now on their video homework, I got to see that Wolfie is still attacking.

Even up high on her shelf.

Okay.

Oh, no, she's... Oh, my gosh.

I saw Heather walking Wolfie, but they only got as far as the front door. I

don't want to go walking.

So, obviously, that's something we have to work on.

Good girl. That's my girl.

Also, I saw poop both inside and outside the litter box.

So, we're moving our litter box from there, where it was, to there.

So, I got to get to the bottom of that.

Hello. Hello.

How are you? Good to see you.

How you been?

Good. How about you? I'm great, thank you. And how are you, sir?

Hey, Jackson. Brother, how you been? How are you? I'm great, how you been?

When I walked in, the first thing I noticed was no poop on the poop deck. So

hope that's a sign of good things to come.

How are things?

She hadn't gone on the floor in three to four days.

Yeah. There we go. A little round of applause.

Take a bow wherever you are. Very nice, man.

No longer pulling my...

Lip flops and covering her poop up. Putting a litter box in that territory

totally worked, but I still have to figure out how to get Wolfie to go in

box consistently, not just for three or four days.

Now, did the box move from place to place?

It started going this way, and then she started going over there. Yeah. So it

just started moving the litter box kind of back that way. It's really

frustrating how Heather babies Wolfie. She's spoiling her and making it worse.

Heather's rushing the process.

As a result, moving the litter box is only confusing Wolfie because Wolfie

connect the litter box with a place to poop.

Oh. My.

Lord.

Look at that, man. She's just one of the gang.

Heather and Bijan and I are talking, and all of a sudden I see this smile come

across their face, and there was Wolfie laying there behind me. Her ears,

absolutely neutral. Her eyes, not dilated. That's not the same cat I met

last time I was here.

And I had to go over and check in with her. Well, hi there, girlfriend.

Hi.

He's going to get scratched.

And the secret is to get her while she's still eating.

And eat out of my hand, baby.

That's the key, the little bitty piece.

Yeah. Aw.

Bang. Yeah. Huge.

Now that's big stuff. That's a huge moment. That's her saying, I trust you.

she's saying, it's okay, I trust you too. That means the homework is working.

Because we've expanded her world both up and out, she's feeling territorially

secure. Okay, my love.

Okay, pretty amazing, guys. Pretty amazing, right? It really is.

Okay, so, watching the video homework, it was clear that Wolfie wasn't

comfortable on the leash.

Whoa. There we go.

Getting her outside is key.

You move with her. Okay. Go for it. To getting her aggression under control and

stopping the pooping, she needs more territory.

Come here, little one.

Now, you see this tension in your arm right now?

Let your arm go limp.

Yeah, there you go. So I look up at Heather, and she's holding the leash

this. And remember, that energy is being transmitted like an antenna through the

harness into Wolfie, and Wolfie's tightening up. So that tells me that

energy is still informing Wolfie's behavior, and we've got to work on that.

me what you're seeing right now.

Well, I think, Heather, we just need to sort of ease her out the door in real

small increments until she gets competent enough to... To get to this

get to that point. Right. Heather, you... Are you seeing body language

what I'm seeing?

Oh, yeah, definitely. I would love to see her sniffing these flowers, sniffing

these plants right here.

Success right there. If they stick to the program, listen to their cat, and

every day have Wolfie take one paw over that challenge line, then the next time

I come back here, I expect to see that cat outside the house.

And now, a few homework assignments.

We're going to call this the pirate party, right? So somebody comes in, they

down. They don't acknowledge her. You don't lock eyes because cats will see

as a threat. You don't go for the pet. You just provide good things like treats

and toys.

Now, I'll bet that Heather's nervous energy translates when other people come

over to visit. Now, if we can get this under control, then Wolfie has a chance

of acting like a normal house cat with other people, too. Also, don't move a

litter box.

There's a...

A mothering aspect that you have with her, which I think borders on the over

-mothering, that you're hovering.

All right, you guys do have a lot of work to do, but it's going to be worth

I promise you. I got a flight to catch, all right? You hang out here, I'll let

myself out, okay? It's one thing for Jackson to control Wolfie, it's a whole

other thing to get Heather under control.

I took a look at their video homework and I saw they finally had people come

over. Now I just hope that Wolfie didn't attack.

Also, I saw that Wolfie was using her litter box, and I can only hope that

poop deck is gone. The only thing I didn't see... Heather, how are you?

the walking exercise, and I can only hope that happened and that Heather

her over mothering. Hey, Jackson. Welcome back. How are you? Thank you so

I'm great.

How are you doing?

Fantastic. Good. I'm glad to hear it.

But the most important thing is tell me, how are things going with Wolfie? Since

the last time I was here, have there been any attacks at all?

No. Had no attacks.

There we go.

Now I'm happy to be in Austin. Okay, cool.

By and large, anyone who comes over here is pretty safe?

Oh, yeah.

Everybody's, you know, feeling comfortable now, including our neighbor,

sheriff. He's now much more comfortable.

Probably the biggest thing was the Cat Super Highway to get her elevated, to

her into a comfort zone with people.

And also, Wolfie's been walking outside, so it's been a lot of fun. Has she gone

outside the box at all?

No. No, she hasn't. All right. Good.

Fantastic. It's refreshing to see Heather taking the homework to heart, to

that she's really willing to trust in the process and allow it to work.

Wolfie's not pooping on the floor anymore. Woo!

The last time I was here, I was a little concerned that she could get to the

door, but not over that threshold. That was a big thing. Are you getting her

over that threshold? Oh, yeah. Oh!

Oh, yeah.

There's great stuff. Now, of course, I do want to spend more time with Wolfie.

And so I'm excited. Let's go. I got to see Wolfie out here. And the reason is,

if she could show some confidence, that means that she's just done away with the

concept of boundaries. She's not going to defend the inside because the outside

is inviting.

But I got to see that today.

Here we go. Here we go.

Look who it is. Oh, my God. Hi, Wolfie.

Look who it is.

I need her to show me that she's redefined her territory, that she's safe

the way out here, and I'm not seeing it yet.

What are you doing?

Come on, Wolfie.

I love the fact, Heather, that your arm is completely relaxed.

You're not transmitting any kind of stress or tension into her.

Come on, baby girl.

There we go.

That's all she needs.

Good girl. Come on. Good job, Wolfie. Yay. Good girl.

There you go. There's your flower.

Just as if at that moment that we were holding our breath, she decided, hey, I

like that, and boom, she was out. Now this is what I was looking for. I was

sitting there, and suddenly she started just coming toward me. This cat.

That beat me senseless the first day I met her is in my lap. And I could tell

that moment, this is a cat who has found her mojo. This is a cat who has found

confidence. When we first met and you saw what she did to me that first day,

you think we would get to the point where today you'd have this? No, never

million years.

Heather and Bijan have committed so strongly to this work. Heather

has taken a look at every aspect of her behavior, and she changed.

She changed fundamentally in terms of her approach to her cat and the way she

sees her cat's behavior.

Guys, it should be smooth sailing ahead.

You let me know if it's not, okay?

Okay. All right, you take care. Now that she's come around and I've come around

and he's come around, there's a big...

Wait, lift it off my shoulders.

There's a lighter air in the room from two senses.

There's no poop and there's no hostility.

It's nice to live in a normal household again.

Bye, man. Thanks again. Thank you.

Jackson, I can't thank you enough. Everything you said 100 % worked.

Thank you so much. We heart you.

Austin is known as the live music capital of the world. So before I leave,

to get on stage.

I'm a bad cat. You're not a bad cat. I'm not a bad cat.

I'm just misunderstood, baby.

Look here.