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I'm Jackson Gallagher, and in an all -new season of My Cat from Hell,

I'll travel America to showcase the more heavenly side of cats,

and confront the most difficult cats I've ever seen.

You can't furnish your house because of the cats.

We are in dire situation here, and we've got to reverse it right now. Wow, he

really got you. He has been starving himself.

That is as close to a 9 -1 -1 as you get in my line of work.

It's okay.

Without Skyler, I have nothing.

I can't take it anymore.

I promised that cat that I would do this.

It's a huge difference how far you have come with him. I'll prove there are no

bad cats. You did it. Just cats that need my help. There it is.

Join me as I break new ground on My Cat From Hell.

I'm Buffy. And I'm River. And we're from Los Angeles.

I got Sebastian about seven years ago.

I adopted him from a local shelter.

And I fell in love with him right away.

He's my first baby.

Initially, he was really mean and nasty, but I worked with him and I formed a

pretty deep bond with him.

He's really good with me, but Sebastian has always had a problem with anyone

else.

I've always sort of gone over to friends' houses because when people come

he attacks them.

Things are getting serious now because we do have a baby. This is

our daughter Sloane. Our daughter Sloane is on the verge of eight months old.

She's only now starting to really notice Sebastian.

She's been grabbing at him.

She sees his tail, and she'll go for it, and we stop her right before she does,

because I'm really afraid of what the consequences are going to be.

I need Jackson right now to help us with Sebastian, because if he attacks my

baby, I really have no choice but to rehome him.

That's why I'm desperate.

Jackson, please help us.

I'm in Marina Del Rey, and I'm on my way to go see Buffy and River and their

cat, Sebastian.

Sebastian is a very violent cat, and his attacks are escalating day by day. It's

a bad situation waiting to happen, and we're not going to let it happen.

Hey, how's it going, Jackie?

How are you?

Nice to meet you. I'm River. River. I'm Buffy. Hey, Buffy. And this is Sloan.

Hey, Sloan.

And hello, Sebastian.

Oh, yeah.

First, when I walk in the house, I think this is... A fantastic space to be a

cat. You've got all of these windows, and it's very open.

All right, well, why don't we start at the start?

There's Sebastian sitting there. Now, I can already tell my cat sense is

tingling a little bit here.

Watching his tail, watching him sort of navigate the place a little bit, he's a

little worked up already.

What's going on with him?

He gets really worked up when people are in the house that he doesn't know. He

gives off this vibe initially that he wants you to pet him, but then quickly

it'll just flip and he'll strike.

Has he ever just walked up out of the blue and gone at you? Yeah, he's

definitely done that.

Did you both pick him out? No, no.

It was a package deal with Buffy. Oh, you came in the scene after him. Yeah.

Okay, so this thing he's doing right now? Yeah, can I? Hold on. No, no, I

to see it. Oh, he's out.

What's up, buddy?

What did I do?

I want to see what happens when I actually encroach.

I'm going to encroach.

Oh, hey, buddy.

Now he's suspicious.

What about if I'm over here?

It's okay.

It's okay, dude.

He has his eyes fixed on my hand.

I am doing nothing.

Oh! Sebastian is the epitome of the Napoleon cat, the over -owner, that he

so unconfident about what is his that he's consistently taking.

He says, you want this? This is yours?

Hell no, it's not yours. That's mine. This belongs to me. A bang.

It's real difficult to really have any visitors over because he generally has

the same response to any stranger that comes over.

When I raise my hand, he comes at me. He takes that as a cue, tells me that

something happened to him. Yes, he was traumatized by it, and yes, he still

lives with it.

Immediately, he just totally backed me down, and that's when bad things happen

because he's not messing around.

I'm getting scared because I'm thinking, well, this is the person that's

supposed to be helping him, so if he's attacking him and he's not even backing

down enough.

So that Jackson can actually engage him and help him, how are we going to make a

change here?

Has he caused injury to anybody outside of this property?

Yeah. We had a neighbor about a year and a half ago.

Snuck out of the house, got into their apartment. He goes over to the

house. Yeah, he goes over into the closet.

She picked him up and sure enough, he shredded her. He came out and attacked

her.

And then she had to go to the hospital because it was one of the bites on the

hand, and it swelled up a bit, and it swelled up like a little grapefruit.

Let's talk about the 800 -pound gorilla in the room, which is this one.

So now we got a problem.

It's going to be impossible. I feel like it's inevitable that he's going to

attack her, and it's not something that we're going to be able to take lightly.

I'm not going to lie to you.

Your situation stresses me out.

I am definitely not trying to be dramatic here, but Sebastian's issue in

particular household is really serious.

Oh, everything is grabbable. This is Sebastian's tale.

And I am honestly grateful that I'm here today as Sloan is just beginning to

crawl so I can maybe put a stop to this before it becomes a really bad

situation.

See, now he's doing the weaving in your legs. Why Sebastian feels like he has to

be around people's ankles is a mystery. Some cats do it because it's play

aggression. Other cats are seeking attention, which he does also.

But then, instantly he gets overstimulated and goes from that love

-seeking to violence. That could be a completely physical reaction.

His nerve endings get on fire and he acts out.

That's not cool. He lures you in. And you keep telling me he hasn't. Oh,

Dude. That doesn't happen to me all that often. Did I get surprised?

Look at his tail right now. We got that flapping going on.

He's definitely stimulated. You see that hair start to stand up, right? Yeah.

That's bad news.

He's going to lash out.

Ears are back.

And he is not digging me.

I'm locking eyes with him. I just want to see. I know.

What? What's next?

Wow.

Let's make no mistake what he's doing right now. He's not just hanging on a

table.

He's daring me right now. Yeah, he is.

And

he

is not digging me.

I'm locking eyes with him. I just want to see. I know.

What? What's next?

Wow. Let's make no mistake what he's doing right now. He's not just hanging

table. He's daring me right now.

Yeah, he is. This is like a Mexican standoff.

You see?

The longer I stare... He's letting you know.

Here. Let's get this off.

I'm just going to try to change my vibe up a little bit.

Good boy.

Oh, I trusted you.

I trusted you.

That's a universal signal. When a prey animal like him does that, that's

I can close my eyes and you can mess me up right now, but I trust that you

won't. I did the same thing to him and he went to try to mess me up. And I got

to be completely honest with you, I can count on my hands in my career how many

times that's happened.

Cats have what's called a sympathetic nervous system, which means that...

Thought and action is not up here. It's here.

So when the body gets full of that static electricity, choices aren't made

anymore. Now, why he feels like he needs to do that, that's why I'm here.

Okay, guys, get around.

We are going to talk about some homework. Number one, Sebastian is a

territorial cat. No matter what we have of his, it's in the middle of the

action. That's just what I don't want.

Right? Because when we walk up to him right here, how he's looking at me like

that, looking at my hand, looking at the tail, and boom, he's off.

Yeah. That cannot happen. So here's what I want you guys to do.

Why not give him things to own that are, first of all, away from the phone,

where he can circumvent the room without touching the floor.

But here's number two. We've got this static electricity building up in his

body. The way that you guys can bring that energy down is with a toy like

It's play session.

Big thing.

Here's another thing that's really important. I'm sending every signal I

him that I'm safe, and he's still coming after me. He's convinced that the sky

is falling, and he doesn't deserve to feel that way, and he doesn't have to.

What I'd like you to do is get him to the vet. I'm hopeful the vet will help

him on a low dose of mood -stabilizing medication.

The goal is we show him the world's a safe place, we do exercises to back that

up, and then, hopefully, we bring him off it. This is where you start.

Once we get him into a place where he looks around and doesn't see the world

being on fire, then we can retrain him and show him all the great things the

world has to offer. The very last thing I'm going to give you guys is a camera,

okay? And I just want you guys to record everything you do. We've got to see

movement in the right direction here because we're working against the clock.

She's going to be crawling. She's going to be walking.

Don't want her to be the victim here because if she's a victim, he'll then be

victim as well.

Leaving here today, I leave here a little worried about him because I

feel safe not for one minute with this cat.

But I have hope that between the medication and the catification and the

therapy, we can get somewhere, but we've got to get somewhere quick.

My name's Jay. I have two cats. One female, Rue, who's an absolute angel.

Then I've got the problem child, Zeus.

When I first got him, he was this shy, big, lanky, spotted animal. Fast forward

till now, his personality is full -blown. I honestly thought, I'm Dune.

He needs a lot of stimulation.

Things that you don't really see a regular cat do. Most cats don't like

and he loves it.

He eats just about anything.

There's like waffles, chicken, ice cream. I give him the name Mr. Meowgi.

a guttural howl.

Like he's being tortured.

Ah, let me out.

And I can't figure out why he's obsessed with the front door.

I actually had to replace the door handle because he has loosened it so

actually opened the door for himself.

But the escaping is what worries me the most.

I do not know how to stop him wanting to get out.

There's a trail that runs in the back of where I live. I named it Coyote Alley

because that's where the coyotes hang out.

If Zeus was eaten, I'd be devastated.

Can't go outside like that.

I'm going through a divorce.

Divorce isn't fun.

Nobody wants that.

Zeus and Rue, they really are all I have. If I didn't have them in the

think that it would be a little bit more depression there.

I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make Zeus happy. I'm at a point where I

feel like I've exercised every option that I can possibly think of. For me to

lose him would be losing a part of me, and I can't have that happen.

Most cats can't resist the trappings of a comfy home.

Zeus, that boy has wild instincts, so I'm heading down to Rancho Santa

in Orange County to try to get this wild cat under control.

What's up, man? What's up? How are you? How you been? I'm Jackson. I'm Jay.

Hey, Jay. And that's a big cat, man.

That is Zeus. What's up, Zeus?

Zeus is what's called a savannah. It's a hybrid, meaning that they took a

serval, wild cat, bred him with a house cat, and boom, you got a savannah. You

got him from a breeder. A guy needed to rehome him. Zeus, he was into

everything. And he said, I just can't give him the attention that he needs. So

he gave me his papers.

He's full F3 savannah.

I have no idea what F3 means. He's an F3? He's an F3.

F1, filial one, that actually stands for the direct descendant of serval house

cat. Then you've got the grandparent is a serval or a house cat. That's F2.

F3 means that Zeus is pretty close to being a wild cat.

It's really cool to keep in mind what these guys are.

He looks like Zeus.

Look at that, man. That pounce.

I wonder if Zeus wants to hunt.

What'd you say?

I wonder if Zeus wants to hunt.

This is so close to who he is. The serval video really shows the descendant

what Zeus is. Zeus is part serval, so of course he's going to have that wild

side to him. He wants to hunt.

There it is. The sound of Savannah.

He sounds like he says, wow. The shape of things to come.

You know, when people complain about Savannah cats running wild in their

Folks, that's what they are. They're hybrids. They're pretty close to wild

They're doing what they're supposed to do, which is to rip stuff up.

You go, son.

The front door. Can't figure out why he's obsessed. Like, I get home from

if I'm not careful opening my door, he's gone.

What does he want out there? Wakes up in the morning, and he goes, hunt, catch,

kill, eat.

That's it, man. This is my life.

There's coyotes back here. They've gotten about five this year. No way.

Some of my neighbor's cats have actually been taken by coyotes. I don't think

Zeus would stand up against a pack of coyotes. I don't know what I would do if

something happened to him. Look, in a perfect world, we wouldn't have cats

are bred with wild cats, and then we're calling them house cats. But the truth

is that Jay's got that wild cat hybrid, and we've got to do what we can to fix

it. Him getting out there has got to stop, like, yeah, now, now.

The thing that I'm a little honestly concerned about is that this place is

not Savannah -side. Sure.

I mean, I'm sure you realize that. Absolutely.

It was bigger than my old place. You know, you take a cat like Zeus in

they need room to roam. They need levels to get to. There's not a whole lot of

room to roam in that apartment. Zeus has ripped the handle off the doors.

That's a first.

The trick is, and let's give him something inside to make him feel like

doesn't have to get out. Now, I want to give you some homework. This shelf here

is where he hangs out, right?

Now where I want him to hang out because we got that. So what I'd like you to do

is take this lower one because this is much more dangerous.

When he's here, it's a straight shot. He's out. I'd like you to place it the

exact same place but there, okay?

It's almost like we've got an agility course here. It goes up, down.

You guide him through and then into his tunnel. And then once he gets down into

his tunnel and out the tunnel, I want Jackpot to be in the depths of the

not out there. Pay off is not out there for him.

I want to prove something to you. I've got this going on.

I want you to go while I'm doing this and open the door.

Is the door open?

I'm holding the door open.

Look at this. Look at this. He's turned the other way, dude. Are you watching

this? I am watching this. Okay. This is amazing.

Aha! It is amazing.

Thank you very much. You did it. When a cat is hunting, they don't care what's

going on over here. They care what's going on right there where that mouth

Look at that. This is what he's on this planet to do.

This is why he's here. He wakes up in the morning and he goes hunt, catch,

eat. In Savannah's world, I don't care if it's air prey or ground prey, he's

over it.

I wanted to prove to Jay that if a cat is doing what they're on this planet to

do, they're going to be free of any other distraction.

Focus. Jay's homework is very simple. Play your cat, play him hard, and also

lead him to the back of the house where all good things happen. You've got a cat

with such big energy, and it's your job to corral it, but also to lead it in a

positive place instead of just trying to squash it down, because there is no

squashing down that savannah.

I will see you in a few weeks, all right? Cool, man.

Goodbye, cats. Stay out of trouble.

I will talk to you real soon, okay? Cool. Take care. Take care, man.

All right, I'm back here to see River and Buffy and their cat, Sebastian.

Sebastian is very aggressive.

He attacks everybody.

Friends, families, Buffy and River themselves.

He's an equal opportunity attacker.

And they have a small child. See, that's where things get a little nerve

-wracking here.

And you guys got to understand, this is serious business here.

Since Jackson's last visit, we've made some progress with Sebastian.

Well, hi. Hey, Jackson. How are you? Good to see you. How are you?

But the attacking of people is still there. How's life? Pretty good.

Yeah? Yeah, it's a little bit better.

Well, hey, hey, hey. How much better?

That's how he beats people, I guess. How much better? Seriously?

I'm not really sure how Jackson will feel about our progress on his second

visit. What I want to do is go through your video homework with you.

We are at the vet.

We're going to speed up getting Sebastian on some behavioral meds.

So we are leaving the vet's office now, and Sebastian was pretty aggressive and

angry. What did that look like? What did he do? The vet went to take him out of

the carrier, and he, you know, did his little ballistic thing.

Hey,

be nice.

So he never got him out of the kennel? No. So the exam was never done.

So that, that, okay.

They have not suggested moving. They want to try some food to help calm him

first. The food that they gave him at the vet, it hasn't worked yet because he

went after my uncle.

Sebastian still doesn't like to be petted.

It doesn't make any sense. Your vet was too scared, basically, to get Sebastian

out of his own kennel. So he couldn't do the blood test so that we could clear

the way for the medication because we could have been further down the road at

this point and we're not.

Number one priority this time around is getting Sebastian on the medication he

needs to be on.

If that doesn't happen, things will continue to go badly.

If Sebastian loses his home, he loses his life. No one will adopt this cat. He

will most likely die at his shelter.

So he couldn't do the blood test so that we could clear the way for the

medication. We could have been further down the road at this point and we're

not.

So just every couple of days, I'm going to say twice a week, I've been taking

him outside for a little walk.

Fluffy, he does something to someone out there, you're in a world of trouble.

Your cat attacks, two strikes against him, and there are municipalities that

mandate that you give him up.

My goal was last time in terms of homework, I didn't want him sharing

space with people.

So the catification, I'm not seeing anything. So what happened here in terms

getting him off the floor?

Nothing's happened yet.

I fear that Buffy and River are just not taking the situation seriously. Whether

now or later, their seven -month -old daughter will be attacked.

The clock is ticking at this moment, and I think I've only got one more chance

to show them how serious the situation is.

Now. Let's go this way.

That worries me a ton. Let me tell you why. If he starts protecting Sloane, and

anybody goes to get him out of the crypt, eventually it's going to be

The whole idea is that separation of Sebastian and people space.

So we've got to have something in here, if he's going to be allowed in here,

where he can claim it as his, and it's not that.

Sebastian's life, day to day, hangs in the balance.

It just takes one bad attack.

He's going to screw somebody up really badly. It just takes a swipe to Sloan's

head.

What about if I give you a treat? You going to like me then?

Yeah, right? Well, that's the thing. Now he likes me.

That, yeah.

What about if we play?

Come on.

Come on.

I am determined. Come here, buddy.

Come on.

It's a toy. Toy.

Pay attention to this button.

Come on.

Sebastian is growling at me while he's taking treats, realizing that he's

getting all of this from me and still coming after me. It demonstrates that

not in control of his faculties, and that was something that they really had

see. This tail position, his tail is sort of parallel to the ground, and the

hair is standing up right at the base of his tail.

So when you see that hair start to stand up, right? Yeah. That's bad news. That

position right there is, to me, one of the things that you guys might be

for now.

I'm just trying to establish what I call a challenge line.

Trying to get from here to there. You start to have a conversation with me and

that, right?

So if I'm here, I'm pretty cool.

One step.

I'm a target now.

Ow! Now that was a bite.

Okay.

That one hurt. Is that a bite or a scratch? That's a bite.

Hey. Hey.

See it swelling up? Yeah.

Because that's a bite.

And it will relax a little bit.

This one is the worst one. Yeah, and that one's going to be trouble.

If it swells up more, we just may have to take me to get some antibiotics or

whatever. I don't want to go to the hospital.

If this is what it takes to make these guys take this seriously enough, to

the work, then that's what happens.

Because I feel...

I

feel these guys suffering.

Sebastian doesn't look like he's suffering. He just looks like he's

crap out of me.

But he's doing that because he thinks nobody or nothing can be trusted.

I'm here.

Because I want to end his suffering.

And then when he doesn't suffer anymore, I'm okay.

Well, hi, best friend.

I don't want you to make any mistake. He's dangerous.

He's dangerous.

Let's just cut to the chase. What I'm seeing from you is that you're

the heck out of this. You don't want to think this way about him. You protect

him. You've been protecting him for a very long time.

It's not helping you.

Because I know if I ever got rid of him that no one would adopt him.

And so I can't. My heart would be broken.

I just want it to work because I know it can be good. I can't have him do this.

I can't have him do that to my daughter. I just, you know, I feel

really trapped.

There's a certain level where I think you guys thought that you had a little

more wiggle room than you do.

And there's no wiggle.

There's just no wiggle.

The exercises I gave you last time all stay in place.

We are going to make sure that we have a prescription today, and he's on it

tomorrow, to give us a chance to get him somewhat stable so that we can actually

do some cool work, you know, the work of making him part of the family.

Sebastian is definitely showing signs that he has a chemical imbalance.

I know what that looks like after many years of working with cats. His tail

puffs up. His eyes get dilated. That's letting me know.

that he is responding to something that doesn't exist.

And that's the definition of a chemical imbalance.

His body language is completely unpredictable.

He needs to be on medication.

It's not like being in a bad mood.

It's being completely unstable.

Jackson's second visit, he really just sort of laid down, this is the problem,

this is what we absolutely need to do. And now we know it's more serious.

You guys got it? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Cool, good. All right. I got to tell

you, you know, getting chewed up a little bit, It's all worth it in the end

Buffy and River understand the stakes here.

Ow. So now, I hope, they've got a fire under them and they're going to take

of this starting right now.

Back at Jay's house.

It is dark. It is gloomy. On my first visit, I met Jay, who's going through a

divorce, and his escape artist, Savannah Cat, Zeus.

I gave Dave some pretty tough homework to keep Zeus behind closed doors.

Hopefully it all worked out because he just can't take another loss.

I'm just going to go right into this because I am loving the change.

Does it work for Zeus? It does work for Zeus. Yeah? It's pretty cool. He

actually likes that post the best.

That one over there. Yeah, so he'll usually just jump up like right here.

that's exactly what we wanted. We wanted him. Promised land that way. The last

time I was here, I asked Jay to reconfigure the shelves so that instead

urging Zeus forward towards the door, we were actually leading him towards what

I call the promised land, which was the back room. And he accomplishes that

perfectly.

I think Felon hit me in the head.

That was the worst.

Tunnel day.

Fantastic. Leading him into the promised land.

Seriously, that's great.

I mean, everything that I would have hoped for, we saw.

Which, of course, leads me to his escaping.

It hasn't happened.

You're a genius, dude.

Jackson's first visit, I learned about the serval and how much that kind of

dictates Zeus' personality, just part of his nature, and kind of eye -opening.

You've already got the groundwork so well laid out. Now, I know we've gotten

afield of where we need to go today.

Son of a bitch.

Even though Jay is telling me all these great things that have happened in the

past couple of weeks, the second Zeus has the opportunity, he's at the front

door, he's pawing at it.

It's not a great thing, but at least I'm seeing that behavior, and as long as I

can see it, I can correct it.

Fixated. Okay.

It's just my luck that Jackson comes back over to the house.

and Zeus is adamant about being outside the door. It makes me feel like

Jackson's thinking, maybe I didn't do all the homework that I was given.

Okay, so that is a strike.

One way I can lure him is

to get his bag of treats out and shake it, but I don't know if that's a good

thing. Well, it's a good thing as long as we structure it.

I'm going to give you one of these guys. In order to get an animal or a human to

buy into new learning behavior, there has to be reward.

What we want to do first is what's called clicker training.

You're going to do the click for me, okay?

Click and then lick. Ready?

Clicker training is a proven way to teach behaviors or to at least train

behavior. We have Zeus focused on a target.

Click, treat. Click, treat. Action. Click, treat.

Don't that muscle memory is set?

We're on easy street.

We got him. In this case, we're trying to guide him away from that front door

and find high value in the back of the house.

Food drives Zeus, so we're going to drive Zeus to the goal line with food.

Let me give you some homework.

First and foremost, I want you to master clicker training. I want him to master

shelf and then into the tunnel and then into that room in the back. I'm not

going to lie to you. You got some work ahead of you.

We still got the meowing. We still got him at the door. I got to see that up

close and personal that we could not even distract him with the toy that he

usually loves.

I really hope that Jay takes me seriously. I hope he commits to this

hope he really dedicates himself and Zeus to the homework because I got big

plans for both of these guys. But unless he accomplishes this step, we can't go

on to that one.

All right. We'll see you guys soon, all right? See you, man.

Jackson, it's very hard to film this with one hand.

Good boy, dude.

So Jay and Zeus and I have had a long, destructive story together.

Son of a bitch.

We've got a cat who's got so much wild in him that a small apartment can't

contain him. If he was a dog, Zeus would be at the dog park.

Well, welcome to the cat park.

Oh, man.

Welcome to the cat park.

This is awesome.

I walk in the door and I'm blown away.

I've never seen anything like this before.

Open space?

I mean, this is... I don't have to hang from a doorknob? This is your world,

dude. Sensory overload for him. This is great.

This is a place that you can come back to. You guys can have a regular...

outing. This place has everything that you would find in an agility course,

tunnels to jumps to hoops to seesaws to A -frames. We've got everything we need

here.

There's the boy.

That's the boy, right? There's walking like a panther.

Look at you. Oh, my God.

He's on the catwalk now.

I know, right?

Yeah, on the catwalk.

Now, one of the things that we were dealing with the last time I was with

was he still was obsessed with the door.

How's that going? He's been so much better, Matt. Working more with this and

knowing that he's getting a reward has paid off like tenfold.

Has he darted? Has he gotten out?

No. See, that's the thing.

Jay now knows that through really focused exercise, reward for that

the clicker training, he is making sure that his cat is not going to die at the

hands of a predator. The hardest part is that we are working with a cat.

who have really high physical needs. He is constricted into a pretty small

apartment and a small life.

Bringing him here to an agility center is giving him that ability to match his

energy level. And here we go.

Come on.

That's a good boy.

Up we go, up we go, up we go, up we go.

Come on, buddy. Yeah!

Seeing Zeus run around here, I understand how he works.

It's ingrained in him to need to get all that pent -up energy out.

I want to come back here once a week with Zeus.

He's cooped up in my apartment for many hours during the day.

He's got to get out and run.

He'll be back.

My cat's happy, so that makes me happy.

Honestly, you earned...

This you know you've worked so hard with him and and you're an example for for

cat guardians here. You're the guy who treats his Animal companion like a child

all I wanted to hear was that I was a good dad from Jackson Galaxy meant a lot

to me Life's changed.

I'm going through a divorce and I was on the verge of losing my best friend now

that things with Zeus have Started to take a turn for the better. I'm a lot

happier if you bring to humans What you bring to these guys, you're going to be

just fine because you are such an incredibly giving human to your cats and

people can learn a lot from you. When I first met Jay, it was pure Savannah

-shaped chaos.

Since then, I've taught him a lot about cat behavior, but he's taught me a lot

about what it is to commit yourself to a cat like a Savannah.

And in the meantime, Jay is committed.

to exercising his cat and keeping his cat on a routine.

And with those things in his pocket, life is going to get a lot easier. All

right, man.

You got to take care of yourself.

Jay has never once said, you know what, this is too much for me. He's always

stepped up to the plate when it came to Zeus.

And the results are obvious.

Big win.

In my years of working with cats, I've seen them contribute to our well -being

in multiple, unexpected, inspirational ways.

And now you can, too. It's my pleasure to share some of their stories with you.

Welcome to a little slice of My Cat from Heaven.

I'm here in Ohio for a little My Cat from Heaven time. I'm here to visit

and her cat, Tony.

Hey, how are you doing? My name is Robin Lawson, and Tony is my cat.

I rescued him on the day he was supposed to be euthanized.

Eleven years later, he rescued me.

You're a hero, you are. You saved your mommy.

There was a fire.

Take me through it. I was woke up by Tony meowing.

Black smoke just came rolling in, and I'm screaming for Tony the whole time.

Found myself just diving out the window. Where's Tony? Tony's still in the

apartment.

Firefighters arrived.

He was on fire. He was on fire.

He was on fire.

And he was gone. So they revived him. With a little mask and everything? Yep,

-huh. Wow.

If it weren't for the animal respirator that the firefighters had on hand, Tony

would not have survived.

His paws were on fire.

His belly, oh, third -degree burns.

This cat is made of nails, man. The fact that he survived this, came through it,

and not just came through it, but that guy's spirit is so intact.

You're a hero, buddy.

He is so special.

Tony's already used up nine lives. He doesn't have a tenth, so I want to make

sure he lives a naturally long life. To keep our boy feeling fit and trim, I

want you to think of treats like this, okay?

I'll leave you with some. Look, Tony's 12 years old. He's significantly

overweight. I'm giving Robin some very simple advice to help trim him down and

live a much longer life. What I want to do is take you to see some old friends.

Robin hasn't seen any of the firefighters that were associated with

rescue. These guys are the reason that this cat is still around.

I cannot express how much gratitude I feel.

It's more than you can ever imagine.

It touches me in such a deep way to see animals treated.

with the same kind of value as you would treat a child, it validates everything

that I believe in in this one moment.

Emotionally and physically, he's a miracle. And it's all thanks to you

I so needed this today.

Because you can say you're grateful, but if they can't really see it or feel it,

they don't know the breadth and depth of my gratitude.

They'll never be able to thank you enough.

There's so much about this story that...

is a lesson for me, and a lesson, I would think, for everybody, that every

counts.

So, I'm here for my final visit with Buffy and River and their cat,

Now, when I first met these guys, we were dealing with a cat who was really,

genuinely dangerous.

And we had a ticking clock in the form of a young baby clone who was on the

verge of starting to crawl. Now, I've given these guys the same stakes, the

homework, and there's been very little progress.

I got my fingers crossed for these guys.

Well, hello.

Hey, Jackson. How are you?

Well, well, well. Hey, I'm not met by the doorman. That's kind of cool.

Last time I was here, we had our ups and downs with him since then.

What do we got? The most important thing is probably that we stepped him up to

actual medication.

Woo! That's amazing.

He hasn't attacked anyone or scratched anyone, which is great.

Okay. It is. It's good. Let's get into your video homework. Here's Sebastian,

and I'm going to come out with his toy.

That's it. Hey!

Oh, that was easy. Good hunting session.

It's Sebastian's new perch. He has his own place to sit, so he's not in the

nursery. Anywhere near the baby.

Thank God. Okay.

Listen, there's a lot of progress here. The last time I was here, he still went

after me.

So today, I want to test that. I want to see if he can take a treat from me

without trying to take my fingers.

I want to know where I am with him right now.

It is not easy.

I see that look in his eyes.

How we doing?

And I am thinking to myself, I'm heading to the hospital again.

Sebastian's final exam. I want to see if he can take a treat from me without

trying to take my fingers.

This time around, I've got to see more predictable behavior.

I want to know where I am with him right now.

How we doing?

How we doing, my buddy?

I have to get in there and get my hands dirty or bloody. We have no idea which

one.

Woo! It's actually a good day.

Yeah. Now, let's have fun.

What is that?

There we go.

There we go.

Good boy. You see that look on him?

This is when we know that life gets better with Sebastian, right?

He's playing so much better with you this time, Jackson. It makes me so

Oh, good boy. A hundred times better.

I'm loving what I'm seeing play -wise. That is successful.

When I first met you guys, he was like a loaded gun.

What people don't get is the suffering that's involved, you know? But just like

anybody who's suffering from mental illness, there is to be.

Well, thanks so much, Jackson.

We definitely appreciate it.

I don't think Sloan knows it yet, but she definitely appreciates it as well.

Yes. No, she's well aware.

Having Jackson come and help Sebastian and really help us and our entire family

has been a big eye -opening experience for us. He's really opened our eyes to

things that we haven't really thought a lot about, and we look forward to the

future with Sebastian.

There's no better way for me to leave you guys than with him being as chill as

he's being. It makes me really happy to see that. It makes me know that we're

moving in the right direction.

Buffy and River, they followed through, and I'm really psyched to see that.

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