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I have a crazy cat named Frankie. He's a nightmare.

I'm frightened to go around this cat.

One time she's actually slept in her car just to get away from him. It's put a

wedge between us.

We can't live together because of the cat. It's me or the cat.

Blinky is pissing everywhere.

We are living in a litter box.

Okay, pee on my bananas.

It's daily pissing. Kitchen counters were hit. Kitchen sink.

Even all my dishes.

I'm in shock. I'm waking up and I've got pee on my head.

I really thought Debbie really was overreacting to a couple of urinations

and there. You're even questioning if he's peeing on me. Yes.

That's not good for me. Our relationship has been affected. I thought about

leaving a couple of times.

If this gets worse, we won't last.

If it comes down to rehoming him. I don't want to rehome anybody.

That's what we'll have to do.

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.

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, you can't always focus on the cat's needs,

right? We all have needs in this family. And cat guardians have reached their

emotional limits. This is the last straw. Killed me. I'm their last hope.

I just love him so much, and I know he's got a good side.

Cats have nine lives, but humans only have one.

Oh, my God!

Hi,

bubs.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's a long, long way to go see Chrissy and Jason and Chrissy's cat, Frankie.

Frankie hates everybody, but he especially hates Jason.

Now, these guys want to take their relationship to the next level. Jason

imagine that happening as long as Frankie's in the picture. Now, my job is

keep Frankie in the picture.

I'm Chrissy. And I'm Jason. And we've been together about four and a half

And I have a crazy cat named Frankie, but he's my baby and I love him. He's

awful.

I've had Frankie for about six years. I've had him ever since he was just a

weeks old. There was a stray cat that had kittens, and I fell in love with the

black and white one. He's always been kind of a troublemaker.

Oh, he's a nightmare.

I'm pretty much the only one that he'd like. The cat doesn't like anyone else.

I'm about 6 '1", about 240 pounds, and I'm frightened to go around this cat.

He bites, he scratches.

Frankie attacked my foot one time, and my foot got ripped apart pretty bad.

He wakes me up 20 to 30 times throughout the night. He claws at my head over and

over and over again.

It's been a living hell. One time she's actually slept in her car in the garage

just to get away from him.

It's put a wedge between us. I don't spend the night ever because I know he's

going to wake me up all night.

We can't move in together.

He's my baby, and I can't imagine living without him. We can't live together

because of the cat.

Something's got to give.

It's me or the cat.

Hi. Hey. I'm Jackson. How are you? Chrissy. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet

So, I know the basics. Okay. I know that we've got an aggressive cat on our

hands. Yeah. My cat's name is Frankie, and he pretty much attacks anybody that

comes into my place.

Jason has to put on the oven mitt just to touch him. I just had a look on

Jason's face. I just learned to stay away.

What's the worst damage he's ever done to a person? I took him to get his nails

trimmed, and he bit the groomer so bad.

Blood was just gushing out everywhere.

I was freaking out, and I'm pretty traumatized from it.

Chrissy tells me that she's actually traumatized because Frankie attacked

someone. That tells me that she doesn't trust Frankie, and that is something

we're going to have to work on.

He wakes me up throughout the night, 10 to 15 times a night.

10 to 15 times a night? Yeah, it's really bad.

To the point where I won't stay over.

We've been together four and a half years.

Seriously, you won't even stay over here because you can't sleep? No.

She's actually slept in her car a couple of times to get away from him.

I know.

It's crazy.

When I hear that someone is sleeping in their car so as not to be woken up 20

times from their cat, that tells me the cat's running the show.

What happens if I fail? I don't see any other alternative but to find another

home for him.

No, I'm not going to just throw him on the street or take him to a shelter

he could get killed. So I'm going to keep him.

I feel like it's put a hold on our relationship in a lot of ways. I think

probably would have already been engaged.

and this is kind of holding us back.

Wow. It just makes me sad to think that my cat is preventing me from moving

forward in my relationship.

Yeah.

I've had him for so long, and I'm so attached. I can't pick. I don't think

fair for you to put me in that position. You know, I think it's a little weird

that you would choose a pet over a very important relationship. I'm not saying

that I'm going to choose him.

This is where I feed him. Okay. Right here. So he gets... This spot, he gets

very territorial. When people come in, he doesn't know. That's some bad traffic

planning right there. So I walk in the house. Hey, guys, how are you? Oh, cute.

Keep your distance because he's unpredictable.

What's the feeding schedule with him? It's hard because there's never a set

eating schedule. So he has no sense of when food is actually supposed to

You can see how, in terms of food, he already has an insecurity about it, but

this may actually.

Feed into it. You take a cat like Frankie, who's clearly territorial, and

you feed him in a place where there's constant foot traffic happening, you're

going to make them more insecure.

And add to that his lack of schedule, the insecurities around that, you've got

recipe for disaster.

Okay. Oh, there's our boy Frankie.

He's a beast, man.

That's a lot of cat.

What's up, buddy?

Hi.

The thing that makes it difficult right now is that he's trapped himself.

Now I'm starting to see the tail go.

The tail gives warning that he's not all that psyched with what's going on. You

see that he's staring at my hand? Yeah.

Can I touch your paw?

Come on, buddy.

This is, again, part of pushing the challenge line.

Look. The reason why I really need to push this cat's challenge line right now

is all of the aggression that I'm hearing about seems like overowning

So I wanted to make sure that I had him in his home base and I started invading

it. Then we could see truly how defensive he was.

Ow.

Ow.

No, no, no. Not done yet.

Ow. Wow.

Now.

Oh, ow.

Ow. Okay.

Ow.

Ow. Okay, you're stuck.

Every time he swipes at me, he gets stuck in my skin.

Sorry. It's fine.

Okay, my hand's still shaking.

Oh, God.

It's okay.

What's happening?

I'm just scared for you.

Don't be scared for me. I've seen him hurt so many people, and it just

me. I do this every day.

And normally I would tell you to leave the room, but it's just as important for

me to see what's going on with you. And I think that Frankie's feeding off your

nervous energy. I turn around and Chrissy is getting very emotional. She's

freaking out.

She couldn't handle seeing me get beat up by her cat.

When she starts crying, when the cat is striking out at me, when Jason is just

standing there helpless, now we have the picture.

Frankie's feeding off their energy, plain and simple.

Would you like to smell something that belongs to me? I call this the cat

handshake. I want to introduce myself in a more peaceful way. My scent is all

over these glasses, so I'm just going to let him sniff it.

I think that if we can show him the world is a safe place, then all is good.

That's my boy.

That's my boy.

Yes, it's okay.

It's okay, my little man.

When I was talking to Chrissy and Jason in a calm way, everyone calmed down. I

used that as an opportunity to very matter -of -factly start to pet Frankie,

just as I suspected at that point, no attack.

Ready to get some homework?

Let's start with one thing, and that's feeding.

It's three meals, and Jason, I want you to do the feeding. It's important that

Jason do the feeding because I want Frankie to see him as a positive force

his life by associating him with food. The next thing that I'd like you to do

is... take his feeding station, and move it to a place that's completely out of

foot traffic. The goal is, over time, to defuse this hot spot, which should be

able to decrease the attack of the door.

So the next thing I'm going to have you do is this.

This is a walking vest.

Okay? Now here's the thing. I already see the fear in you.

You are going to get your boy in this thing. That's your homework.

You don't have to worry about taking him for a walk. None of that.

Frankie is a large cat, and he could use a little exercise.

So let's get him into a harness and get used to wearing it. We can work on the

actual walking later.

And another thing that I want to sink into as we go along is your fear of

getting hurt.

Your reaction to what happened to me in there was pretty extreme. And that's

something else we want to break down.

Good to meet you, ma 'am. Pleasure to meet you. Thank you.

And we will talk to you guys in a few weeks, okay?

I hope that we've done enough by the next time we meet him. If it doesn't

with Jackson, if he doesn't improve, something's got to give. He's got to go.

I'm here for my second visit with Chrissy and Jason and Chrissy's cat

And the last time I was here, I was dealing with...

Plain and simple, a territorial, aggressive cat.

Now, I watched their video homework, and I saw that Chrissy did change the

location of the feeding station, which is really crucial because that brunt

was a huge hot spot.

The only thing I really didn't like was Chrissy's energy when they were trying

to get that harness off of Frankie. Ah, I'm scared.

It's okay. No, no, no.

She was panicked. I've got to see a little bit more balance in order for us

clear these last couple of hurdles.

Otherwise, we're behind the eight ball already.

Tell me right off the bat, since the last time I was here, have there been

violent instances at all? A little bit. A little bit. Yeah, not as much. So if

he was at a nine aggression -wise the last time I was here, give me a number.

Maybe like a six to five for Frankie. That's great. We'll take a five right

Good. What about the homework worked for you? Definitely moving the bulls.

That was definitely a hot spot right there. He doesn't really lash out in

area. That's a pretty big deal right there. Wow, fantastic.

And Jason, part of your homework was establishing a feeding schedule. So tell

how that's been going. It went well.

Great. I'm less afraid of Frankie than I was before, and I think a lot of that

has to do with the food schedule.

But it felt good to have a big change where he suddenly was interested in

hanging around me. For the most part, it's been a big improvement.

Beautiful. Good to hear. No, that's really, really good. It's clear that a

of improvements have been made with Frankie's behavior.

Chrissy's been sleeping through the night, and the new feeding schedules

Jason feel a lot more comfortable with Frankie. But what I saw in the video

homework was that Chrissy is still feeding Frankie's aggression with her

negative energy.

So now, where is he right now? He's right up here. He's in here.

Expose him a little bit more. Okay.

I mean, we totally want to say to him, like, this is not the hidey hole. Here

goes.

And on cue. There you go.

Now it's going on. Now it's going on. Good.

Nice going.

So now he's out in the world a little bit.

And the next thing that we're going to want to do is the harness.

I saw in the video homework that Chrissy's nervous energy around Frankie

especially obvious when she's trying to get him into the harness. I want to

watch her try to put that harness on and walk her through how to approach her

own cat with confidence.

All you're doing is getting him around, boom, around, boom.

Sorry. What's going on? I don't know. What?

I'm scared of being bitten.

Have you bit you before?

No, just because of what happened to the lady at, you know, the groomer. At the

groomer at the store.

Yeah. But that is, you got it.

I watched her get attacked and run out of the place with a towel covered in

blood. I'm not doubting that it was a traumatic thing.

It's just that we got to think about what's it going to take to get you past

groomer. She has to work through her fears, work through the traumas that she

suffered watching Frankie hurt other people.

And Frankie has to go along with the plan.

Are you ready? Okay.

Jackson wants me to put the harness on.

I don't know. I'm a little nervous.

You've got to do it when you're not trying to chase after him. Yeah, let

Okay. Go. Now go.

I just want to, like, practice in my mind. Yeah.

Yeah, if you want those two sides.

Frankie, he's fine.

Pick him up, bring him back over here. He's really mad, though. No, he's not. I

don't know if this is a good time. Are you sure?

No, I don't think he is mad.

I think part of my hesitancy when our relationship is due to Chrissy's nerves.

Yeah, he's mad.

Chrissy, I'm not going to let this rest.

She's got to pick him up and get it together.

You're acting as if you don't know him.

I'm just scared. I've really seen Frankie hurt people.

He's a little confused right now, but he's not mad. His eyes aren't dilated

his ears aren't back. Really, he's fine.

Come here.

Exactly. Bring him right over here.

I can probably fix it a little bit more. Exactly. Now let's fix it.

Keep moving. You're doing beautifully.

Let's fix that one under his head now.

Chrissy, I'm holding him.

Okay.

Frankie, we're going to just do this really quick, honey.

How am I not afraid of him and you are? Because my hand's near his mouth. Move.

Listen, listen, listen, listen.

Can we do this, babe?

Here we are.

That's my boy.

That's my boy.

And now he's in.

Chrissy, you're the problem.

Okay, I'm not even kidding right now.

I can see that Chrissy really wants to change, but she's been letting the

that she's seen Frankie do in the past.

Color the future. If she can't learn to trust that Frankie's not going to attack

her or others, it becomes a self -fulfilling prophecy.

Now it's time for homework, okay?

So let's start with the fire drill. So I wanted to take Jason and Christy

through something that I call the fire drill. Now just like with the harness in

the living room, do an action that may or may not be dangerous, but plotting

things out five steps ahead and repeating them over and over makes you

something with confidence and without any emotion.

Second step is catifying the place. So I want you to get another cat tree like

that one, beds and scratchers, and put them outside the major lanes of traffic

so he has places he can own.

And with everything you're doing with the harness, I feel absolutely secure

you should be able to start getting him out to go for short walks.

Okay. And the last thing, I want both of you guys staying over here. Jason, that

should help you establish a better relationship with Frankie. Okay.

Great. All right, guys. Thank you, Justin. Take care of yourselves. Take

Bye -bye.

Bye. I feel like Chrissy's been a little nervous, like we saw today with dealing

with Frankie. It makes me pause and think, well, if we do take a big step

what's going to happen? Because Chrissy's not going to let go of the

I'm not going to put myself in a situation where it's dangerous all the

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Jackson, why does Cat P show up under a black light?

The answer, right after the break.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Jackson, why does cat pee show up under a black light?

The light waves that black light emits are just outside the range of human

perception in the ultraviolet range. Now, why does cat pee glow? That's

what sets off a black light is phosphorus. And that goes for human pee

anything with ammonia and phosphorus in it.

All right, I'm out in front of the My Cat From Hell trailer.

Got my handy black light.

We're going to go blacklight the bathroom.

Come on.

Ready for this?

Let's do this.

Oh, that's so disgusting. Did you do this, man? Is this you?

That's nasty.

That's gross. I'm out of here, man. I'm going to pick a cat from now on.

So I'm here for my final visit with Chrissy and Jason and Chrissy's cat

The last time I was here, Chrissy's fear was informing every last move she made

when it came to her aggressive cat. Now I got a chance to watch some of their

homework and I saw Chrissy putting the harness onto Frankie and she got him for

a walk. Now that's just one of her fire drill homeworks. Now walking in today, I

want to see that there's been no violence whatsoever.

If that doesn't happen...

Chrissy and Jason aren't going to take their relationship anywhere because

won't sleep over here. All right, guys.

Just tell me straight out since the last time I was here, any attacks, anything

I need to know about.

Thankfully, no.

No attacks.

Okay. And a round of applause for Frankie.

Nice going, my son.

Nice going.

Coming quite a long way from the Frankie that we're used to.

One of the most important things I gave you was the fire drill. Is that working

for you? It is. When I go to put the harness on, he's feeding off my

and it's been really good. Yeah! Oh, my gosh, I know.

I was shocked myself.

The homework assignments that I feel worked amazing with Frankie was we got

a cat tree, we got him a scratching post, and I feel like those are his

where he feels confident, comfortable.

The fire drill...

It seemed to help a lot, too, to have a plan.

I think for Chrissy that made a big difference.

Now, how are you guys doing at this point? You guys are both going to stay

You're going to get through the night.

Tell me what happened.

No, it's been great. It's been really good. I'm so happy he can spend the

now. Success!

Now that Frankie has places to call his own in the apartment, it's really

changed his behavior. So I feel much more comfortable staying at Chrissy's

house. Congratulations. I'm glad that it's going really well. We've also got

some exciting news to tell you, too. What's your news?

We're engaged.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Well, looky there.

It's amazing to think what just getting cat problems under control can do

because it reverberates all the way to their relationship and beyond.

Everything sounds fantastic.

Now, there's some stuff I really want to see before I leave here. I want you to

go get Frankie, put him on the couch next to Jason. We know that Chrissy has

real primal fear of Frankie hurting someone she loves.

I need to see Frankie able to settle in next to Jason with nothing happening.

This is the test.

I'm excited.

And a little nervous.

It's okay.

Just come out.

Here comes Frankie.

He's in the tree. I'm trying to get him out.

I want to see this, actually.

I need Chrissy to take control here and get over her fear of her own cat.

When you start making your drill right now, imagine that you've got to get him

out of here. I'm going to back up and allow you to make that plan.

If Chrissy keeps hesitating, Frankie is going to feed off that fear and he will

regress. If Frankie lashes out right now that things are in big trouble, Jason's

going to see this behavior and think there is something to fear from this

So she's really got to set an example here so Frankie follows through.

Come on, baby.

You can do it. Come out, okay?

Come on, Frankie.

Come on.

Oh, got him.

Don't rush yourself.

This is your cat. This is Jason's cat.

You sit down.

Put him down in between you two.

Hi, Bubs.

Frankie.

That's all there is to it.

We win!

We win!

Chrissy is the key here.

Chrissy's fear came out over the last couple of times I was here.

She's finally let it go. She's finally able to live in the present moment with

her cat and now her fiancé.

I am, I'll say it again, I'm so proud of you. You've done such amazing work.

Well, we can't thank you enough. Thank you so much.

It was great spending time with you. It was such a pleasure.

I feel like I've grown so much and I feel like I'm going to continue to get

better as we go along.

Frankie's calmer. He's happier.

He treats Jason a lot better. It means the world when somebody like Jackson can

come in and say, you're doing a good job. And now Frankie and I are buds, and

our future's bright because of it. And I'm just so excited that we're all going

to be a family.

Frankie is pissing everywhere.

Look, it's pee on my banana.

It's daily pissing.

I thought about leaving a couple of times. If it comes down to rehoming

don't want to rehome anybody.

That's what we'll have to do.

I'm on my way to go see Debbie, her boyfriend Brian, and their four cats,

including the four -legged pee machine, a .k .a. Blinky.

After years of multi -cap bliss, suddenly their house is soaked from top

bottom with Blinky's pee.

They're completely at the end of their rope, so I'm going to head over there

before this couple is separated by a river.

A pee, that is.

I'm Debbie.

I'm Brian.

And we are living in a litter box.

Okay, pee on my banana.

We have four cats, Blinky, Clyde, Baxter, and Coco.

Blinky is five years old. He's a rescue who we got from the shelter. And he's

the one who's pissing everywhere.

I wanted to go take care of my mom. She had a heart attack and open heart

surgery. When I came back, the whole place had been hit. My bedroom had

The paint was peeling off the walls. The headboard was ruined.

Kitchen counters were hit. Kitchen sink.

Even all my dishes.

I said to her, how could you have not known this was happening?

I couldn't smell it.

Didn't seem that obvious. I walked into that room and you knew. It's daily

pissing everywhere.

You're even questioning if he's peeing on me.

That's not good for me. I really thought Debbie was overreacting to a couple of

urinations.

This is what greets me this morning. Pee.

The last time we were able to sleep in the same room together is at least seven

months ago.

Our relationship has been affected.

If this gets worse, we won't last.

If it comes down to rehoming Blinky. I don't want to rehome anybody. If that is

what Blinky needs, that's what we'll have to do.

Hey! How are you? I'm fine. How are you? You Debbie? Yes. Hey, I'm Jackson. Good

to meet you. Nice to meet you.

I'm so excited Jackson's here. I hope he can fix my house, fix my kiddies, fix

our relationship.

All right, guys. All I know is that we've got P.

Let's fill in the blanks. What's going on here? We currently have four cats.

We have Blink, Slide, Baxter, and we've got a senior, Coco.

Coco. How did they come to you? They're all rescues. Good.

Our five -year -old cat, Blink, has started peeing everywhere in the house.

There's no place that's safe, not even my head, when I sleep.

Oh. Yeah.

How many times has that happened? Eight times.

What? Eight times.

And you? No.

I just really would be like, please, please, pee on Daddy.

Sometimes I wake up and I just start crying.

I'm crying just thinking about it. Cats pee where our scent is the strongest,

and they do that a lot of times out of territorial insecurity. What Blinky is

demonstrating when he does pee on her head is that...

Territorial insecurity turned up to 10.

It started when my mom had a heart attack and open heart surgery.

Wow. And when I came home, I found pee everywhere.

But you were still here.

I was. He was here, but then what he was doing was like ignoring the problem or

not seeing it. Neither one of us use the master bedroom anymore because if I

sleep in there and I lock him out, it is nonstop meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.

Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.

I'm tired.

I'm stressed.

I'm sorry.

And this has been going on now for... At least seven months.

Emotionally, you seem much more at a breaking point than you. Am I reading

wrong? Oh, yeah, no, you're exactly right. It's affecting her a lot more

is me. I didn't really see the piss in the kitchen and in the front room.

There was puddle. I even accused her of fabricating the urination on her head

when she was sleeping.

How do you not notice that something like this is happening to your life? I

just imagine Debbie coming back from her trip and the argument that must have

happened that day. Brian, do you think that the problem is as severe as

outlining?

Not really.

Well, that's a problem.

The fact that Brian is so dismissive of the severity of the problem here is

nothing short of alarming. I mean, I know that I haven't been inside yet.

I can already tell it's bad. The guy needs a serious wake -up call.

It smells like pee in here. I know. Immediately.

Oh, my God.

The smell, when you first walk in there, will just knock you off your feet.

You've got plastic.

More plastic.

You've got throat pills that are completely covered in plastic.

Who's this?

This is Blinky. You're Blinky.

We are just sort of swimming in your stank over here.

Since all of the pissing has started, he's going back and forth and back and

forth and back and forth. And he just looks like a nervous wreck of a cat.

Well, there's Baxter. Hello, my little friend.

Just put him down.

And, wow, he is the opposite of Blinky. Baxter knows that Blinky is patrolling.

He doesn't want any part of it. What goes on outside this window?

There's neighbor cats and there's stray cats.

I feed them right out there.

I move the food to in front of the garage where you can't see it. You know,

you're watching me look at you right now, right? You can't even look me in

eye right now, can you, Debbie? You have a feeding station basically right over

there. That's one of them.

Where are the other ones?

The other one is in the backyard. Where?

Outside that second door.

I'm sorry.

The cat who feels like their territory is being completely invaded.

pees around the perimeter and patrols the perimeter. This is war.

Debbie's trying to do something good for the community cats, but instead she has

created a circle of feral cats right outside her home. And now we're seeing

retaliation. So this is the cat sanctuary.

That is Coco, my senior. He's 16 years old.

And here's Clyde. There's Clyde. These guys are the indoor -outdoor cats.

They come and go as they want. And I have a cut through here.

Yeah.

A cut through on the screen.

I'm not a big fan of letting cats go indoor, outdoor at will. It's just too

dangerous out here. If they can come and go as they want.

Yes. You know where I'm going with that, right? Other cats have come and gone.

I've even had raccoons in here.

You know it's time to make a change in your life. When you wake up and there's

like a 12 -pound raccoon rustling next to your bed. Do these cats get to go in

the rest of the house with Blinky and Baxter?

No. They want to go out, but I don't want the others going out, especially

Blink, because he's going to get himself killed.

Not only is Debbie creating two separate worlds between the cats in the house,

but she is making the problem worse when she was trying to just slap a bandage

on the problem.

Okay, so have you seen any pee in here? No.

All right, so here's what I want to do, because we know Blinky doesn't get in

here at all. Well, I figured I needed to take the black light to the rest of the

house. It was going to be painful for both Debbie and Brian, but we've got to

what we've got to do.

Oh, no.

Yeah, there we go. I got a look in every nook and cranny here.

Man, look at that.

Oh, my God.

I mean, there is not a dry spot now.

More there.

As the height of the urine got taller, I was getting a little pissed.

I was thinking, that little son of a bitch.

Man alive.

How did it get up there? What? Are you kidding me? Oh, my God.

Guys. Can we burn the water cooler?

I can tell by seeing these pee patterns exactly how stressed out a cat is.

Because the pee goes up like that, like a splatter up the wall.

How are you feeling seeing all the proof?

I'm overwhelmed.

And I can see I have a lot of work to do.

I was like going, wow.

I told you. Because I didn't think it was that bad.

The first thing I'm going to do.

is give you a present. My blacklight. I'm going to give you a CO2 cleaner that

really like using. Go around, clean up everything.

Then, every night, you're going to do a sweep of the house.

And wherever you see a new spot, clean it and move on. Okay.

When Debbie left to take care of her sick mom, Blinky became insecure.

And now I think he's peeing because of a threat from all of the feral cats

outside this house, as well as the unknown coming from the cat sanctuary.

You have effectively made two different territories here. I know. And the guys

never meet. So all you can do if you're a cat is perceive that there's an enemy

on the other side of that wall, not a friend. So we're going to break down

wall. Feeding time happens on either side of the sanctuary door and every

These guys are only going to get food when they smell each other, and then

eventually we're going to start breaking that wall down visually as well. There

is a complete separation between the two groups of cats in this house, and now

it's time to get these four cats together.

Next thing is, we're going to prevent the ferals from coming in, and I want

to start moving your feeding stations.

Find a spot that is far enough away from this house that the presence of those

cats won't...

threaten your cat i love the fact that debbie feeds these cats and takes care

them i don't so much like the fact that she does it right outside the walls of

her home and blinky doesn't like it either take care of yourself okay all

great to meet you man and call me if you need me i have no idea how i'm going to

clean this whole house from all this pee the homework is overwhelming but it's

got to get better it just has to get better i can't live like this

So I'm here for my second visit with Debbie and Brian and their pee machine,

Blinky. The last time I was here, I learned that Debbie had two cats, Blinky

Baxter, living inside the house, and two other cats, Clyde and Coco, living in

what she called the cat sanctuary, and she had several other feral cats coming

onto her property for food. As a result, Blinky was peeing all over the house,

and Debbie and Brian were at the end of their road.

Now, I watched their video homework. I did see that the feeding exercise was

working beautifully. I could see all four of these cats eating peacefully on

either side of the door, and I think it's time to start really integrating

home. I also saw them clean up every ounce of pee, and now we'll have a clean

slate. However, I saw a lot more bad than good. I saw Blinky peeing

Walking in, based on the video homework, I'm a little worried.

Now, when I left these guys, I told them specifically that they had to move the

feral cat feeding stations away from this house. What's the first thing I

food bowl right outside their front door.

How are things going?

It's pretty much the same as it was two weeks ago.

Now, I got to bring this up. There is a bowl of food and water right in front of

your house.

I moved it.

Remember, it was three steps from your front door. Well, I did move it. It's

sitting in front of the house. When I say away, away.

Where? Where away? It was right in front of. First, it was on the step.

Oh, my God.

I don't know what's going on here, but whatever it is, I've got to get the

from her because I am trying to find Blinky's truth. One of the most insane

things that I had heard in a long career was how he had peed on your head not

once, but multiple times. Please tell me that hasn't happened since the last

time I was here.

It has not happened. Blinky is calmer because he's begun to associate the

two cats with good things happening.

Therefore... He stopped peeing on her head.

That's good news.

You don't look happy. I felt like all the homework I was doing got me zero

results. I was expecting for the peeing to at least diminish.

This is a process.

There's no miracle.

I mean, if I gave Debbie the impression that I was going to walk in here and

wave my magic wand and everything was going to be better, then it's my bad.

we've got four cats in here, we've got a world of ferals out here, and a house

that is being completely torn apart by pee. This is going to take some time.

I know Debbie's having issues, and I really, I don't know what to do about

It's causing tension.

Is it? Yeah.

It's very stressful. It definitely hurts the relationship.

Do you blame Debbie for...

What's going on here in terms of bringing in all the cats?

Well, Debbie, however, I honestly thought about leaving a couple of times

because... Really? I didn't know that.

Oh, well, yeah.

Now, if things don't get better by my final visit, would you consider rehoming

Blinky?

That's what we'll just have to do.

I don't find it acceptable to give up on him.

It's amazing to think that the concept of rehoming Blinky could start tearing

this couple apart, but I see it happening right before my eyes. That

discord isn't good for the couple, and it's not good for anybody in the house,

especially Blinky.

Now it's time to show these guys the solution that I've got in mind.

I have some friends at a company called Perfect Fence. We're going to build a

fencing system that will basically enclose this entire yard.

So your guys get to play in the pond, and they get to climb things. You don't

have to worry about them getting out of here. Now, this is all, of course, with

your buy -in. From everything that I've seen, I am convinced that the problem in

this home is not in this home. It's outside this home.

If we can keep the ferals off the property and keep Debbie's cats on the

property, sharing space both inside and outside, I think that Blinky's going to

be much happier and a much more confident cat.

I just need Debbie and Brian's buy -in.

I'm busting my ass doing this pond and everything, and I think it's gorgeous

just the way it is.

So I hear a perfect fence, and I think to myself, oh my God, fencing all over

the place.

What the hell?

Blink wants out. He struggles to get out. He is so unhappy.

I want him to enjoy the yard just like we do.

I want it.

There you go.

There you go. Yep.

Didn't mean to cause more strife. One thing is perfectly clear. Like it or

Debbie calls the shots.

Brian's already admitted today that he's had thoughts about leaving. I just hope

that he can see this process through because we still have a lot of work to

here. First and foremost, I want you to really commit to eliminating any feral

feeding stations from your property. I still want Debbie to take care of these

feral cats, just not right here. Do it across the street.

I'd like you to move the feeding of all four cats out into the house. I want you

to test the waters a little bit. And finally, get your four cats

This is just a hunch, but I'm telling you, I think it's going to work. These

four cats can eat together in the same space. Then the territory gets unified,

and I think that's really going to help solve this problem with Blinky. All

right, guys, you got your homework?

Yes.

Hi!

I love it. I got a parrot on my shoulder.

Between the first visit and today's visit.

I had unrealistic expectations of the kitty miracle worker. Now I know that

going to take a lot longer to fix that problem. Take care, guys. Bye. Bye -bye.

I frankly think this will be a complete failure.

I'm here for my last visit with Debbie, Brian, and their cats, Blinky, Baxter,

Clyde, and Coco.

Now, the last time I was here, the cats were eating together well, but there was

still a lot of peeing going on, and I was shocked to discover that Debbie was

still feeding those feral cats way too close for comfort.

I got a chance to look at Debbie and Brian's video homework, and I was really

happy to see that all four cats were eating together with no door separating

them. I also got to see that the perfect fence has been installed.

Now, today, what I don't want to see is pee inside. I don't want to see feral

cats anywhere near the cat sanctuary, and I hope both of the cats and the

humans... are getting along.

Big fingers crossed.

What's going on?

They're getting a lot better. A lot better?

Yay!

Oh, that's good news. In terms of the pee, it's slowed down to a manageable

place with him?

It stopped in the house. I mean, that's a huge thing. I haven't had any pee in

this room in at least three days.

So I am thrilled. I'm beyond thrilled. I can have my life back. We slept in our

room together last night. Now that's a miracle. Yeah. No wonder you're smiling.

Okay.

My relationship with Debbie has improved greatly by just the cats getting along

and her getting her house back. The pee is definitely very minimal. I mean, and

even the smell has been reduced greatly.

All right.

Now that things are contained in here, I want to go outside.

Let's go. Let's go.

Look at that.

That's what we wanted, man.

We got cats outside.

We got fencing up.

Look at how killer this looks, man.

It's a sanctuary yard now, not a room. The concept of that sanctuary, is it

gone? Yeah, it's a bedroom. Say that again?

It's the guest bedroom. It's a guest bedroom. The cat sanctuary yard has

benefited the cats.

So much. They get to go outside.

They get to watch the birds. They get to chase butterflies. They sit near the

pond and look at the fish and love it.

So the best thing that I've seen is Blink. He's sitting. He's quiet.

There's not that constant guarding, the parading around.

And that I knew was the key to this whole thing.

The fence is designed with a 45 -degree angle at the top, keeping the cats from

being able to climb it. That way, no cats can get out and no ferals get in,

which will give Blinky the peace of mind he so desperately needs.

Oh, he has relaxed a lot. He wanted to just go outside and be free.

In the beginning, I had my reservations, but then I realized that she's

definitely a lot happier and that the cats are a lot happier, and naturally,

that's going to make me a lot happier, too.

What has gotten him into that mellow place?

Not feeding the ferals and the strays so close to my house. And him having the

freedom to come and go as he wants has made a big difference. And he tires

himself out.

On cue.

On cue. I love you so much. He's happy, this is all. Before Jackson came out, we

were at a point to where our relationship was definitely suffering.

I actually did see.

A different Debbie last night. And we did something last night. Oh, yeah. That

we haven't done in a really long time.

Yes, we slept together in our bed.

On this note, happy human, happy cat, happy home.

Jackson's out of here. Before Jackson arrived, I really felt very hopeless

around here. And now I've got my life back. And I'm enjoying my kitties.

Thank you, buddy. Take care.

It's been an honor working with you guys. Jackson, thank you very much for

saving my little family over here, my kitties, and bringing us all together. I

really, really greatly appreciate it. See you, Blake.

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