All language subtitles for My.Cat.from.Hell.S8E01

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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