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Jimmy, come on now.

I posted a video of him online attacking me and it went viral.

Jimmy constantly attacks.

He bit my grandson on the neck.

My daughter told me that I can't see the kids unless I get rid of the cat. My

kids got bite marks and scratch marks from your cat.

I haven't seen them since.

Are you trying to let us know that there is a spirit of the cat here?

I'm a ghost hunter, and I've decided there is something here bothering our

Ninja, Harold, and Timmy.

Tim's peeing all over my house.

Harold is chasing Ninja.

I definitely fear for Ninja's life.

Timmy and Harry. They are brothers. And I don't think I could split the two

brothers up, so we're going to have no choice but to rehome Ninja.

She's like one of our kids.

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.

Ow.

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 limit. This is the last

straw. It kills 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 gosh!

Hey, come on, night, night.

Blow my hand.

Jimmy?

I'm on my way to go see Lola and her cat, Jimmy.

Well, as a matter of fact, Lola has flown all the way from her home in

to seek my help. Now, these guys have become YouTube sensation.

But for all the wrong reasons, Jimmy is aggressive. He's a fighter. He's

completely unpredictable.

And he's doing damage not only to Lola, but to her daughter, Nisei, and her

grandchildren.

So I'm going to get over there right now before even more damage is done.

My name's Lola. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I'm the owner of Jimmy

Ow!

Ow! People know Jimmy because I posted a video of him attacking me, and it went

viral. I decided to get rid of my lovely cat.

I woke up with 700 friend requests. It had a million views on all different

websites. I was actually shocked.

Jimmy came into my job. He was a street cat.

And he comes from the worst part of Milwaukee.

I was told people were whipping basketballs at him and kicking him.

That's why I took him in.

Unprovoked. Every day, it's Jimmy attacking.

And this is my daughter, Eunice.

We could just be sitting here, and he'll just attack us out of nowhere.

I never know, like, oh.

I have two sons.

One is three, and one is five.

Oh!

I'm afraid of him like really, really hurting them.

My daughter didn't want me to keep the cat.

You're defending a horrible cat. No, no. She chooses the cat over me and the

kids.

They told me that I can't see the kids unless I get rid of the cat.

I'm not coming over anymore.

My kids got bite marks and scratch marks and it's from your cat.

I haven't seen them since.

The stakes here are really high for me and Jimmy. I flew in from Milwaukee, so

Jackson can meet Jimmy and give him the help that he needs.

Normally, I like to meet cats at their own homes, but because of the urgency of

the situation with the kids getting attacked, Lola flew out here to L .A. to

meet me with Jimmy in a hotel.

Hey. Hi.

How are you? I'm Jackson.

I'm Lola. Lola, good to meet you.

Okay.

Well, you traveled a long ways from Milwaukee?

Yeah. To get here?

I've seen the video of you and your cat. I am sure the whole world has seen the

video of your cat, Jimmy.

Yes. Such a good boy.

Look at that.

And he's just hanging, man.

Yeah. When did you make the video?

I gave him a month, and I was like, I'm not going to put up with that. I didn't

get this cat to scratch me up like this. Oh, my God. It's all over you.

Yeah. These aren't scratches.

These are bites?

These are bites.

Not that they were scratches, but actually they're Jimmy's teeth hitting

and dragging across it. My grandkids were playing on the floor.

He thought them from a distance and ran up and bit him on the neck.

And your daughter, how is she responding to all this?

She said, I can't see the kids unless Jimmy's gone.

Wow. What is it about him that makes you still committed to him in some way?

I don't want to give up on him.

And after seeing the video myself, I decided to get rid of my lovely cat. I

myself give up, and that's something that I usually never do. Nobody gave up

me 10 years ago, and I was just like him.

You know, I was out of control.

I was an alcoholic and a recovering drug addict, and I've been clean for 19

years. Amazing.

Somebody gave me a chance, and I want to give him the chance that I got.

Okay.

You're getting me all emotional because you don't see people do this, you know?

I mean, this cat wouldn't be alive without you. Lola has had a tough life,

she turned that life around, and now she's looking at this troubled cat and

bringing the same approach to it. It's my kind of person.

Look at that.

Ah, there's our crazy, possessed...

Demon cat.

What I wanted to prove to Lola was that Jimmy could expend the kind of energy he

was putting out on her arm on something constructive.

So I brought out some toys. I'm trying to get him to a place where his body

starts to take over. But what I want to see is once he's activated, what

happens. Right now he's still a little neither here nor there.

I'm going to pull out another toy here.

Have you ever played with one of these before?

He looks like he's never seen it before.

I'm absolutely shocked by Jimmy's lack of attention span.

Or do you like one of these guys?

What is that?

Now, on the video, Jimmy was just going after Lola nonstop. I mean, he would not

take no for an answer. Let's do something.

That wasn't happening today. Are you really going to do that? I mean, the

basically falling asleep while I'm running around the room trying to play

him. Are you really going to do that?

Oh, my God, you're kicking my ass.

I had to see the behavior that I saw in the video. So instead of trying to play

it out of him, I'm going to try to push it out of him. Get down to his level.

Okay. And then I just want you to try to get him to go for your arm. The way

that I could think of doing it was to get Lola into the mix. Because I noticed

in her viral video that after Jimmy would bite her, she would sort of push

back, and that was sort of a game for him.

Now present your arm to him.

I had her put a sweatshirt over her arm so as not to hurt her too much. Now,

what happens when you can take your arm away and put it at your side?

You know what's coming, don't you?

Now, see? He is over the top at the moment.

Activated. When you have a chance, take your hand completely away.

Now, see?

What this exercise showed me was that Jimmy can focus on things. Oh, Jimmy!

He's just focused on the wrong thing, and that's Lola's body part.

Ready for some homework, Lola? Oh, yeah.

This is a tough one. There's only so much that I can learn when it's not your

environment. So number one, we have to do detective work based on your home. I

need to know if there are any components of your place that may be triggering

the behavior. For example, are there other cats outside or are there loud

noises? So what I want you to do is for me, I need you to journal a day in the

life. Normally, I like to see a cat's environment firsthand, but since Lola

to see me, she's going to have to do the detective work. I'm going to get a

glimpse into Jimmy's world that I just didn't get today.

Now, number two, you are the biggest toy to him that there is. So it's really

important that we just take your hands out of the equation.

Jimmy still has adolescent behavior written all over him. He's a teenager.

Jimmy is overstimulated, overactivated, and he's got to get used to attacking

toys, not people.

Now, finally, the last piece of homework for you. The next time we meet up, if

there's any way possible to get your daughter here, you know, the loss of her

daughter and the loss of her grandchildren is much worse than any

could ever inflict on her. And I want to be able to help rebuild that. All

right. I'm going to take off. Okay. I flew all the way out here from Milwaukee

to California, and I really hope this works because this is my last resort.

And after this, there's nothing. And I don't know what the future holds.

So I'm here for my second visit with Lola and her cat, Jimmy. Jimmy is the

infamous YouTube sensation where he just beat up Lola. Now, Jimmy is a very

tough case that needed immediate attention.

So even though I wasn't able to visit them in Milwaukee, Lola flew back with

Jimmy to L .A. from Wisconsin just to meet with me. Shows a lot of dedication.

Play toys.

Come on. So I got a chance to look at Lola's video homework. I saw Lola

committing the cardinal sin, and that is playing with her hands as if they were

toys. Lola also did some great detective work on her video homework. He is

definitely reacting to noises he hears.

Stop it. Now hopefully we've gotten to a point where the old Jimmy is starting

to be replaced with the new Jimmy. Because her own daughter will not bring

grandchildren over because of this cat.

Who knows what I'm walking into today.

Welcome back to L .A. I'm glad that you made the trip again. Tell me, listen,

right off the bat.

Any attacks since the last time I was here?

I only got attacked three times, which before it was constant.

So that's a start. Now, in your video homework, I saw you doing something that

know I told you not to, which was playing with your hands.

Take your hands out of the equation.

Yeah, I see it now.

Are you going to stop?

Yes, definitely.

Okay, good. I'm done.

The last time we got together, I asked you to journal a day in the life.

Yeah, he hears noises in the hall, a big loud... Ow!

I found that noise stimulates Jimmy. They get him all riled up, and then

attack. Ow, Jimmy!

I heard so many things, like the TVs and the fish tank makes a loud noise. Of

course. What were you able to do to sort of bring the sound down?

I would put the closed captioning on the bottom. And do you notice anything

about... He's sleeping right next to me.

Seriously? He never does that.

That's so cool.

Cats have incredibly sensitive hearing. So if the house is that loud and you've

got a cat prone to overstimulation like Jimmy, it's a bad recipe.

On top of that, I wonder if the noise from Lola's grandkids is also triggering

Jimmy's attacks.

The last time we got together, I asked if your daughter, Neesake, should come

and meet with me. Is that still going to happen? Yeah, she's coming today. But

I'm a little nervous that Jimmy might attack.

And what happens if that does happen?

I don't know. She might write him off and write me off.

You got to think about this. It's been six months since the last time that Lola

saw her daughter, and it wasn't on really great terms because of Jimmy.

So her daughter's coming here today. That puts the stakes up a little bit

How? All right. So talk to me about your breaking point when it came to Jimmy.

At first it was me, and then it was my kids when he started attacking my kids.

That was too much.

Do you feel like, to a certain degree, your mom chose Jimmy over the kids?

that's what I feel like. You've got to have a little bit of sympathy for Nise.

Obviously, she's been attacked before. Her children have been attacked.

And she doesn't understand Jimmy any better than Lola did just a few weeks

So it's important for me to educate Nise. And the only way to do that is to

her in the fire a little bit.

Oh, my God.

Look at you.

Oh, my God. Don't put him towards me. When he comes walking out here, what do

you assume is going to happen?

He's going to attack me. The first thing I wanted to do with Nisei and Jimmy was

just to show her that energy that he has demonstrated towards her in a menacing

way, let out on a toy.

I don't think that he's an attack cat. It's play aggression.

It's overstimulation. It's not with mean intent.

So now that I've got him really into playing, I want you to do something for

okay? I want you to just walk over, pet him on the top of the head for me.

I'm serious.

Take a breath.

Relax yourself a little bit.

No, I don't want to.

Okay. If right now Jimmy bites Mise while she's trying to pet him, it's game

over.

That was incredible.

Incredibly brave.

I'm done. Not so scary?

No. Keep going.

Do it again.

You see how little he cares about you when he's got a toy? He was working on a

feather. He was chewing his prey.

He doesn't care about the hand. The hand has no value to it other than it feels

good. Nise saw this, and that was a major breakthrough.

Now, I know it was a short.

exercise and everything but seeing him in this light can you imagine your kids

getting near him working with him i don't i don't know no that's probably

so as of today right this moment you don't think it's a good idea still no

i'll keep working playing with jimmy and working with him you will yeah me I've

gotten as far as I can with Nisei, but I've got to admit, she was pretty brave

today, and I'm really glad that Jimmy repaid that courage by not attacking

However, there's still a lot more work that needs to be done, and Lola is the

key to getting Jimmy to behave.

Now, the first thing I want to take care of, Jimmy is activated by loud noises,

so I'd like you to get a white noise machine, and you put it somewhere where

tends to just get a little too activated.

The next thing I want you to do, he loves to reach for toys, so I have a

for you. How cool is this?

So this is just a take on a kid's mobile.

Hopefully you get the message now that you cannot play with your hands anymore.

Okay. Promise.

Promise. And finally, I want you and me to say to keep working with Jimmy, and

if you feel it's safe, have your grandchildren start interacting with

under your supervision.

Let me know if you need anything, okay? Okay. Good to see you. You too. All

right, take care. I know Nisei has a lot of fear of the cat, and I'm just

worried that Jimmy will have setbacks and outbursts. Ow!

And I think if Nisei gets attacked, she won't ever have that trust for him, and

she won't come back to visit.

Ow!

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Hi, Jackson.

Why does my cat knock things off the table?

The answer, right after the break.

And now it's time for a kitty bit.

Sophia from Los Angeles, California asks me in a very cute way, Why does my cat

knock things off the table?

Well, Sophia, what your cat is saying is, I'm bored.

You've got to play with your cat more. Break out that toy. Have him chase it

around the room.

Pretty simple, right?

Thanks for asking, Sophia.

I'm here today for my final visit with Lola and her cat, Jimmy. I got to see

their video homework, and I saw some really amazing things. I saw Jimmy

to the sound machine. He was actually purring. It's crazy because I maybe

him purr like twice before.

Cats purr can mean contentment and pleasure, so this is great.

But what I didn't see is Lola's daughter, Nise, interacting with Jimmy

And that was a major homework assignment because if Nise can't come to trust

Jimmy, then this will be one family that will continue to stay apart.

Yeah, right to it, man. Since the last time we were together, any attacks at

all? Nothing new at all. Nothing new at all? Nice!

Oh, that's amazing.

Nice.

I hear you're a rock star.

All right, let's talk about this, man. I learned so much. What do you mean? Tell

me about that. He would attack me in the bedroom and in the bathroom. So now I

leave toys in those areas. So right away, redirect, redirect.

Here's a toy. Play with it. That's amazing that you noticed that. What else

your homework really worked for you? The mobile worked tremendously.

Especially in the middle of the night.

That's fantastic, though, man.

Also, I plugged in the whiteout noise. Yeah. He went from 10 to zero.

You knocked it all out of the park. I'm so excited.

This is the first time I get to enjoy him as my Jimmy. The Jimmy that I've

always wanted him to be. My Jimmy.

I think the biggest thing that I've learned through the homework was to get

hands out of the mix with playing with him. Good boy.

Now, instead of giving me slaps, he gives me licks and purrs.

So the last time I was here, we were dealing with a lot of fear on Nise's

Have you noticed any difference there? There's still one major roadblock here,

and that's Lola's daughter, Nise, and her two kids. I want to hear where

at with Jimmy, because if I don't have her buy -in, then Lola's plan of having

life with her daughter and her grandchildren goes down the tubes.

Actually, Jackson, I got a surprise for you. Wait right here. Okay.

Hey!

Hi! Look at you!

You brought kids with you. Come on over here. Come on over.

What we got here?

This is Carmelo and this is Angelo. I am so excited these guys are here, man.

The last time you were here, you were like petrified.

I've been, I was still a little nervous, but I've been petting him and he got

better and I'm not as scared as I was. I even let the kids play with him.

Was it fun?

It was.

They were actually playing with him for so long, Jimmy didn't want to play no

more. They pooped Jimmy out? Yes.

This is the cat that just a short time ago was sneak attacking these boys and

biting them on the neck, and now he's being led around until he's exhausted.

I mean, this is great on so many levels.

Are you saying at this point that it's okay to have the kids with Jimmy?

I see him a lot different. I see him like he really did get better.

I do trust him now.

Wow. Seriously, wow.

I am surprised and happy, which, I mean, no one's going to be more happy than

you are. Look at your face right now.

I never thought I'd see them all together in the same room. I think it

important for Nisei to see the new Jimmy.

So, Angela, let's see if you can get our friend Jimmy to play.

You going to play with him?

What is that?

Before I leave, it's really important that I see firsthand that the children

in no danger of being attacked by Jimmy.

You see? And immediately.

All it takes.

And he's hunting the right thing.

Look at that.

What's he doing?

He's playing with the toy. Good boy.

I'm glad that we just got to have this experience so we can all come together

a family.

I'm just happy my sons are able to have a bond with Jimmy.

Thank you so much for bringing my family back together.

It's my pleasure. This is worth it for me.

All right, guys, I'm out of here. Take care of yourself, all right? This

experience meant a lot to me to see my daughter and my grandkids get along with

Jimmy. Jimmy's a changed cat.

I know that Jimmy loves me.

And the moral of the story, folks, is don't believe everything that you read

the Internet, at least when it comes to Jimmy. He's not an evil cat. And just to

prove it, Lola and I made our own video. This is Jimmy. This is Lola. This is

Jackson. We're hanging out here letting you folks out in video land know that

any cat can be cool.

He's my cat and he's not going anywhere.

And that's what I needed to hear. My job is done.

I'm a ghost hunter, and I've decided maybe there is something here bothering

cat. Are you trying to let us know that there is the spirit of the cat here?

Hey, that's enough!

I'm back in New York, and I'm on my way to go see Mike and Pat and their cats,

Harold, Timmy, and Ninja.

Now, this is some of the worst cat -on -cat aggression I have ever seen in my

entire career, with Ninja getting beat up by Harold at every turn. Now, Pat

believes that if life is better for Ninja someplace else, then so be it. But

that's going to break Mike's heart. So I'm going to head over there right now,

because this is truly a family in crisis.

Hi, Mike.

And I'm Pat. Pat and I met 16 years ago in a heavy metal chat room.

Ever since then, we've been together.

We have three cats.

Ninja, the baby. Tim, who is peeing all over my house. And Harold, who is

aggressive towards Ninja.

Harold is so focused when he's chasing Ninja. He's not coming off her as a

target ever.

There was blood, there was urine, there was feces.

Oh, wow.

There's nails here and nails here from them fighting.

I definitely fear for Ninja's life around Harold.

We keep Ninja separated from Harold. We installed a door between the downstairs

level and the upstairs level so the cats just can't interact.

I'm a ghost hunter, and I've decided to see if there is a spirit affecting our

cats. Before all the fighting started, everything was fine, so we never thought

we would be sitting here today.

Are you trying to let us know that there is the spirit of a cat here?

What does that mean? Maybe there is something here bothering the cats, and

that's why this is happening.

I'd be used to that.

We've tried everything.

I don't know what else to do. Harold and him are brothers, and I don't think I

could split the two brothers up. We're going to have no choice but to rehome

Ninja. I can't rehome her.

She's like one of our kids. I can't even talk.

Who are you?

Hi, Jackson. Hi, Jackson. Nice to meet you. I'm Pat. Come on in. Good to meet

you, too.

Fill me in. Okay. We have three cats now, but we used to have four. There was

Harold, Kumar, and Tim.

Then Ninja showed up six months later, and we ended up adopting her, too. Okay.

So everything was fine. At some point years later, Mike and I went on

and Kumar got out the window.

And he was outside the whole time while we were gone. It was after that point,

Harold started chasing and attacking Kumar.

Cats use all of their senses to identify friend or foe, scent being a big one.

So if Kumar came back smelling different, Harold may not have

then started attacking him. Things got so bad, and there was no other choice

to rehome Kumar.

So Harold and Tim are thick as thieves. These guys are together all the time.

I could never separate the two of them. I remember the day we had to say goodbye

to Kamara. I miss him, and it was tough.

Yeah.

Now going through it again with Ninja, Harold is relentlessly chasing her.

It got to the point now that Ninja's so afraid she won't play. She doesn't like

to eat.

How is Timmy with Ninja?

Tim had no problem with Ninja.

Okay. The other problem we have is with Tim. He is spraying all over the house.

Did Timmy's peeing happen around the same time?

Uh, yes.

So the whole house has crumbled from normalcy, and you have no idea why.

No. We've tried it.

everything and anything to get this situation resolved.

I even investigated the house to see if there was some kind of paranormal

activity here.

Wait, hold on. So you go ghost hunting? I do. I do. Yeah.

So I try to be careful on investigations and not have anything come home with

me. But there's something out there for sure. We actually investigated this

house. and although there was some activity, it wasn't really conclusive.

We're going back. No, I'm serious, because I want to rule out all

here. Have you ever seen your cat just staring at a wall before, and you think

they see something that you don't see? Probably true.

Cats are so energetically tuned in, it's not even funny. So when you talk about

paranormal activity in a home and how it affects cats, I'm game. I am totally on

board with that. At the end of the day, if we can't fix this, then what happens?

So Harold and Tim are brothers and they've been inseparable from the time

were young. So if anybody had to go, like it would have to be Ninja.

Any animal we have is a family member and the hardest thing to do is to, you

know, say goodbye.

It's so important at this point to try to get into the mind of Harold to find

out what makes him so ill at ease that he's got to turn on other cats who he

no problem with at all. Well, who's this?

That is Harold.

Well, hello, Harold. So Harold is our cat from hell. He is. Down here, for the

most part, it's the boys.

Right. Right now, yeah.

Ninja gets down here how often? She gets down here about twice a week.

Where's Timmy at?

I think Tim is either behind the couch or on the stairs.

Is this a popular hiding space?

I'd say yeah.

Hi, baby boy.

Timmy's scared.

Yeah. Timmy sitting behind the couch tells me that this is not the most

confident cat in the world, but we already knew that. He's walking around

house peeing when he never has before. Do you have litter boxes down here?

There's one right there. Oh, good. There's also one in the bathroom. How

total do we have? We have five litter boxes in the house.

These guys have five litter boxes. They took my formula. They even added one,

which would be fine if all of the boxes didn't have lids on them. Some cats like

Timmy may not like to pee in a covered box, and for cats like Ninja, it can be

trap. Hello, my friend. Can I say hi to you? Now that Harold is relaxed, Timmy

is finally out to greet us. I'm working on a theory right now, and that is that

as goes Harold, so goes Timmy. Even though three minutes ago he was behind

couch, the reason why Timmy is okay coming out now is because he gets his

through this guy. If Harold is out of balance... then you've got Timmy marking

all over the house. It is cause and effect.

And I am really firm in believing that when we figure out why this boy is out

balance, Timmy will follow suit.

Okay. Now, here's what I want to do. It would help me a lot to be able to see

all three together.

So, Mike, can you bring Ninja down for me? I've got to get Harold and Ninja and

Timmy in the same room at the same time and see what the dynamics tell me.

All right.

So here she comes.

Immediately he responds.

Look at that. You're down.

As soon as Ninja was on the floor, Harold went to full alert. It was bad.

Oh, boy.

Wow, he's got her.

He's got her.

Wow.

I'll go behind the couch.

She's in the couch.

She's in the couch. He has her fur in his mouth.

So that's Harold making that noise? That's Harold.

He's not warning her.

No. He is warning you that there's an intruder in the house.

A fight can break out inside a piece of furniture. You know how bad that is?

Here she goes.

She just went into the dining room.

Ninja darts under the table, and really quickly, Harold cuts off all escape

routes and just waits for her. Pretty scary.

She's trapped.

He's trying to make her run now.

I mean, the thing is, she knows well enough now not to budge. She takes a

She's done.

Wow. All right, that's it. That's enough. Mike, could you go grab her and

her back to safety?

I've seen plenty. I'm terrified.

I mean, Harold picks one look at Ninja and he is on her. I mean, he is driven.

And that tells me that this could be a case of redirected aggression. What I'm

saying is something happened to spook Harold while he was sitting there with

Ninja. And in that moment, he goes fight or flight. He can't tell friend from

foe. And it's game on. Now, I don't know what it is that scared Harold in the

first place. Could have been another cat outside the window. For all I know, it

could be a ghost inside the house.

You guys ready for some homework?

First thing, let's start talking about food. I want you guys to reintroduce the

cat during mealtime using a screen door and a sight blocker. I want to go back

to a reintroduction technique using the screen door between the kitchen and the

rest of the house and a sight blocker so that we're going to raise that curtain

really slowly over time.

And I'm just hoping that Harold's going to start associating Ninja with good

things, like food.

Next thing, you've got to find a way to just make sure that the inside of this

couch is not accessible to her. Right. At all. And I also want you guys to do

site swapping. You just can't have Ninja upstairs five days out of seven and

think that she's going to gain confidence.

We have to do it consistently every day. Everybody owns different parts of this

house, and equally, just not at the same time. Next thing, start rethinking your

litter box arrangement. Take the top off them.

Okay. I don't want the litter box to be any reason why Timmy's not using it. And

also, I don't want Ninja to ever have to go into a litter box thinking she's

going to be ambushed. Now, last thing. I'm going to come back in a few days,

we're going to do some ghost hunting. Okay. So if you have any questions, you

can call me, okay? I really don't want to see Ninja go. She's like our little

kid, you know? But if this doesn't work, then we're going to have to seriously

consider rehoming her.

All right, I'm here for my second visit with Pat and Mike and their cats, Ninja,

Harold, and Timmy. Last time I was here, I was seeing cat -on -cat aggression

unlike any I've seen before.

And their cat Timmy was peeing all over the place. Now, I got a chance to look

at their video homework, and I saw these guys closing up the back of that couch,

and not a moment too soon, the last time I was here, a fight took place back

there. I also saw their feeding exercise. Now, this is the key to this

thing. Also, I came back to join Pat, who is a ghost hunter, to rule out any

paranormal activity that could be affecting the cat's behavior.

Hey, anything's possible. It's possible that Harold thought something paranormal

when he was with Ninja, and is now redirecting aggression. and our dose

went a little something like this. Watch your step, Jack. It's really steep.

This is, like, not where I want to be.

If there's someone down here, can you let us know by making a loud sound in

room? Oh, God.

What the hell?

What was that?

Did you hear something?

Yeah, I told you. You didn't hear that? No, I didn't hear anything. That's

great.

No! What was that?

I don't know.

Make it go away.

Let's see if there's any hot spots in the room.

Is there anything you need?

So far, no activity.

Okay. Well, hopefully that's good, because it means that your advice can

us, and it's not something paranormal.

Now, that was the scariest homework that I have ever participated in, but at

least we can say there are no ghosts. Now, I just hope that the other homework

assigned can help give us some answers.

So, tell me, guys, how are things going here?

Well, um, some progress.

but not as much as I was hoping for.

Okay. Well, let's start with Timmy. I saw that you've been taking the lids off

the boxes, and what's the result?

That's been a great success.

Great. Since my last visit, how many times has Timmy peed inappropriately?

Twice. Good.

Listen, we measure our success around here in millimeters.

Now, taking the lids off the box clearly made them more appealing to Timmy. But

until the tension is resolved in this house, we are not going to get to the

of the problem. Now, I also saw on your video homework that the feeding exercise

has been happening. So how's that been going? We got to the point that they

right on opposite sides of the door, both eating, both not distracted at all.

And then we lifted the sight blocker and then it all went to hell.

And then Harold.

eats, but when he sees her, he's laser focused.

Who moves first?

Because if she runs, we're good. I think she does.

That we can work with. The fact that Harold doesn't move first means he's

acclimated to her presence. So now we can work on upping her confidence.

When we side swap, she's restless and meowing at the top of the stairs.

I mean, it's four solid hours. Wow. When I hear that Ninja is meowing

incessantly for hours on end during the site swapping, she thinks that the only

place that she's safe in that whole house is behind that door at the top of

stairs. That's not what I was looking for. Since it sounds like Ninja isn't

making as much progress as we had hoped, have you given more thought to the

concept of rehoming Ninja?

I mean, we've obviously tried so much, and to come away like...

failing her.

Maybe it's just too late to fix, and had we done it sooner, maybe it would have

been all right.

I feel defeated.

I just hope we can work through this and fix it. I don't know.

We're not done.

I know. We're not done. The key to this whole puzzle is Ninja's confidence, not

Harold's aggression, so it was really important that I see this feeding

exercise.

It's okay.

Food is up. Come on, guys. Okay, here comes Harold.

Here's the food.

Go ahead, put food down for her.

Ninja, come on. Want some food?

Okay, so Tim's there. Harold is now eating. Now will our girlfriend eat.

Ninja, you gonna eat, baby?

You wanna eat?

I know.

If I don't see the kind of progress I need to see, rehoming Ninja has to be on

the table.

Ninja, it's okay, honey.

Hey, Pat, what are the boys doing over there? They're both eating.

All right, good.

I'm thinking that I'd like to try Tim in here with Ninja.

I think that we need to break things up just a little bit here. Let's bring

Timmy in with Ninja just to see if she gains a little bit of confidence just by

watching him. Hi, Tim.

Hi. On this side, Harold's still eating.

Good. Right now, what I'm looking for is to see if Tim just brings a little bit

of calming to the situation here. You see how they're sitting together right

now? Mm -hmm. Come here, my friend. Here we go.

There's our girl. There's Ninja.

Good girl.

Very good.

In the midst of an exercise that was going completely wrong, things began to

turn around.

Once Timmy joined us, Ninja's energy shifted. She relaxed, and then something

really crazy happened.

Timmy jumps up on the kitchen counter, looking out over the sight blocker at

Harold. Then Ninja jumps up there. Now we've got the two of them sitting side

side, looking at Harold. He just picked his head up and looked at them.

And then just went right back to eating. He didn't even acknowledge that. He

didn't acknowledge it. That is that sort of breakthrough moment that I needed.

The reason why Harold isn't charging at Ninja is because we are putting Timmy in

a different position. We're actually sort of.

Fourth thing, an alliance here. Timmy is going to be our social bridge.

Now, even though Ninja didn't end up eating during the exercise, she still

showed great signs of progress.

It's so crucial right now that Mike and Pat continue working on building up

Ninja's mojo because I'm telling you, man, we are really close to success.

Ready for some homework? Sure. Always.

First thing, when Ninja is on the stairs, I want her to feel that she's

comforted no matter what stairs she's on. You coax her, comfort, comfort,

comfort, then get into the challenge again and start working her down those

stairs. I want Mike and Pat to dare her to come down a stair. If they challenge

their cat and she accepts it, they win.

Now, feeding time. I'd like Timmy and Ninja on one side of the door, Harold on

the other.

Timmy should be an ally of Ninja. Back up those dishes, start it again, and see

if Ninja starts demonstrating a little bit of confidence that she's gaining off

of Timmy, who is our new social bridge.

So for your last bit of homework, I want you to siteswap Ninja and Timmy

together. I don't want Harold around, obviously.

When these things start happening on a regular basis, we have our chance for a

breakthrough here. Okay. All right?

I think teaming Ninja and Timmy up together is a really good idea. I really

that he can be that bridge for the two of them. But if the problems aren't

resolved by Jackson's last visit, we're going to have to rehome Ninja.

I don't want to have to put another cat through that, and I certainly don't want

to have to go through that again either.

I'm here for my final visit with Pat and Mike and their cats, Ninja, Timmy and

Harold. The last time I was here, Ninja was showing an extreme lack of

confidence and Timmy was still peeing. So I got a chance to watch the video

homework and I saw them working Ninja down the stairs.

Come on.

And I hope that they've gotten her all the way down. I also saw the feeding

exercise. It's showing a lot of promise. But I'm hoping that as that sight

blocker goes up, Harold doesn't charge the gate.

Now, walking in here today, I don't want to see any peeing, any violence at all,

because the stakes here are high. Mike and Pat have already had to rehome one

the cats in this home. How are you? Good to see you. So if they don't see some

real change here, they are going to rehome Ninja. Nobody wants that.

So, guys, tell me, since the last time I was here, has there been any fights,

violence, anything?

None. That's great news. Yeah.

In the last round of homework, the thing that helped us the most was luring

Ninja down the stairs instead of carrying her. I really think that built

of confidence in her. So now I think Harold sees Ninja as someone who belongs

the house. Now, has Timmy peed since the last time I was here?

No, he hasn't.

Yeah.

That's good.

My suspicion was that Timmy was peeing all over the house because he sensed

imbalance in the relationship between Ninja and Harold. This just confirms

belief. Taking the lids off the litter boxes was the first step. Restoring

between Harold and Ninja was the final step.

Now, how's the feeding exercise been going for you? Were you able to feed

without the sight blocker?

No. Okay.

Has there been any incidents of him charging the screen door or anything

the last time I was here? None.

No.

Good. I can't tell you how huge it is that Harold hasn't charged that door.

what I need to see here today is the same feeding exercise I did last time,

time with no sight blocker whatsoever. If I can see that these cats can eat in

full view of each other, then I know we're on our way to a happy home.

Let's get Ninja and Pimmy.

Right in here. And here comes Harold.

Are these guys ready?

Hi. Are we ready?

Come on, Roni. Let's eat. Go ahead.

It's okay. Go ahead.

Don't worry about him.

If you could, as he's eating, raise the sight blocker.

I just want to see what happens because he's totally into eating.

Look. He's watching him right now.

He sees her.

He's making eye contact.

Now, we do not want to see him charge.

He's looking.

And just walked away.

That's our man.

I can't believe she's just sitting there.

Yeah, it's amazing.

My love, I would love to have you eat even a teeny little bit of food.

Would you do that for me?

Can you go try it for me?

Come on, just try.

Let her find her way.

All right, he's coming back.

Guys, look, feeding.

Good baby.

That was beautiful.

Thank you, Jackson.

Watching this feeding exercise, I think the future in this house looks really

good. They're getting closer to having all three cats in the same room

which tells me.

This home is going to be a peaceful one. To have her be as relaxed as she was

gives me a lot of hope for her. Is the thought of rehoming her at this point

something that's still dominating conversation?

No, definitely not.

Good.

Good. Guys, I love what I'm seeing, so I'm going to leave you. If you need

anything, please let me know, okay? Before Jackson came...

Things were not looking good, but we've just come so far.

Returning our home to a stable environment and forgiving Ninja the best

could ever have, which is right here in our own home. I appreciate what you're

doing for these cats, all right? Jackson, I just want to thank you so

helping our family get back in balance.

We just can't thank you enough.

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