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My two Don's boys are crazy pants.

I'm starting to be a nervous wreck.

We just broke it last week.

Igor thinks I'm a human ladder.

Oh, Igor.

I'm not relaxed when I cook.

He sits right on the stove.

Whoa, that's a disaster waiting to happen.

I just fell into feeding the hen. And then all of a sudden, it was like 30.

If you feed them and you don't fix them, you are breeding.

It is kind of an issue.

You're dealing with a community that is pretty close to the end of their rope

here. It's go time. We are setting up the trap.

He tripped all of them.

We're starting to think that maybe somebody doesn't want us here.

I don't want to leave him here, but I got no place to put him. His life is

to be a short one. It's a distressing reality. This breaks my heart.

I'm Jack in the Galaxy. I am Cat.

The animal behavior.

Wow. The guardian's call.

And they're dealing with a difficult cat.

Wow, he really got you.

I'm out to prove that there is no such thing as a bad cat. Just a cat that

my help. You did it.

My

name's

Steven. My name's Ellen.

My name's Dylan.

And... A neighbor was feeding cats, and I thought, that's so nice of her.

And one day she said to me, I'm moving.

I didn't even give it too much thought, and I just started feeding cats.

Here, here's some chicken.

The minute you start feeding a cat, they're yours.

I'm a cat lover myself. We want to help them, but it keeps growing.

This is a mom cat right here.

She's had about three or four litters already.

Do I feel like a crazy cat lady?

Probably from the outside looking in, but I don't feel like a crazy cat lady.

do it because I feel like it's my job.

There's a lot of stigma having a cat colony.

My neighbors go crazy because there's so many cats.

I worry about mom because the responsibility she takes can sometimes

emotional. You know, it's sad. They don't have a home. This is magic.

That's brother.

That's Sam.

That's Frankie.

I am feeling overwhelmed, but I wouldn't stop helping cats because they're my

responsibility. I took them on.

Every morning, my mother wakes up early.

I'm going to feed a lot of cats.

And when she comes home from work, she needs to feed the cats late at night. So

I like to help her. It smells delicious, doesn't it? If I'm not around, I feel

bad because it has so many trays.

It's heartbreaking for me because they keep multiplying.

And I can't get a handle on it. This is the other mom cat.

I'm asking for Jackson's help now because if he can help me get any of

adopted, it would be wonderful.

Figuring out a solution with Jackson helping us, that would be awesome.

And we need all the help we can get.

Today I'm dealing with a feral colony in Southern California.

Feral cats, they're not just stray cats.

They have been born out on the street. They have no social contact with humans.

They are feral, which is to say that they're not pets.

They're meant to be out here, not in your house.

I'm scoping out the neighborhood before I go in to meet the family so I know

what I'm looking for.

Hi.

How you doing?

This feral cat... all over the country. Now, what makes Southern California

special is that there is no winter. It's always hot.

Cats can go into heat when the weather conditions are right. And the weather

condition is always right in Los Angeles, which means they're always

Hi. It's estimated in the county of Los Angeles, there's over 2 million feral

cats roaming around here. The only way that we can effectively manage feral

communities is a system called Trap, Neuter, Return, TNR.

We trap these guys.

We neuter them.

We put them back out here.

And so that way, they don't reproduce.

And just like that, this colony will be contained. It is by far the most humane

approach. And that's what we're here for.

Hey. Hey. How are you? Hi.

How long have you lived here?

25. 25 years? Yeah. Okay. And in that 25 years, when was the first time you

realized you had... A feral cat issue.

Well, here's the thing. The neighbor was taking care of these cats.

And then she told me she was moving. And I just sort of naturally fell into

feeding the cats.

Yeah. Do you remember how many that you were dealing with?

Say 10.

Okay. And then all of a sudden, within, you know, just recently, it was like 30.

Recently? Yeah.

It was just overwhelming.

I can't get a handle on it. I totally hear you.

If you spend enough time around the cat rescue community like I do, you see

people like Ellen and her sons, and you just recognize them immediately.

They're people with huge hearts who just care about the cats. But in this case,

the size of that colony has just gotten out of control, and we've got to step in

right now before it gets any bigger. These guys just need a little bit of

direction, hopefully.

When your neighbor was like, I'm out of here, I'm moving, had you any history

with trapping?

I rented five traps one time. I got one cat.

So you put out traps.

and these guys just won't go in.

Right. Okay. Do you have neighbors who are not so happy about the TNR efforts?

See, I don't know. A lot of the neighbors feed the cats, but I have had

with the neighbors before. Yes, the cats poop in everyone's yard.

They want me to take care of the problem.

Every single thing falls on me. For the whole neighborhood.

I can see the frustration written all over Ellen's face. She needs some help.

It's very important for me.

to be a source of education for this entire neighborhood.

We are presenting a humane solution, and hopefully the entire neighborhood is

going to jump behind it because we have no chance of success here unless we have

community buy -in.

The best thing that we can do is get a lay of the land here, where you guys

feed, where these guys congregate, so I just have a good picture in my head. So

if you want to just lead me around, that would be great. Go for it. Go.

There's feeding stations all over here.

I don't like the fact that they're out in the open.

I don't like the fact that there's so many of them, because in terms of

everybody, having them right outside your window is the best place, because

the trap goes off, you'll be right there. So what I would love to start

especially with the across -the -street cats, let's start getting them over here

into one basic feeding station.

Okay.

Tonight, I'm just going to come out here around feeding time with Ellen, watch

how she does it, because I want to see what makes up this colony.

I also want to talk to a few neighbors today to talk about their experience

the ferals. What's your name? Oh, Krista. Krista, great to meet you. I got

of experience trapping, so we're really hoping to at least start to get a handle

on things. It is kind of a nuisance. We don't want 40 cats roaming our

neighborhood. If we keep getting three litters of kittens in my backyard every

year.

I don't want 12 cats living in my backyard. I have small children. We want

population to decrease.

I come across one of Helen's neighbors who feeds these cats as pests,

You know you're dealing with a community that is pretty close to the end of

their rope here. The second you get a colony Tienard, the numbers go down.

I'm just concerned about the people who like to still feed them because they

enjoy the company of the cat.

Which we know is just going to make the population grow. Right. People think

that they're being kind by feeding the feral cats.

But if you feed them and you don't fix them, you are breeding.

You know that whole thing, it takes a village? We need complete community buy

-in or we don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of containing the

Man, it is pat o 'clock.

Once we're done feeding, I'm just going to spend the rest of my time walking

around and getting a lay of the land. Okay, here we go.

Tonight, what I'm hoping to do is I want to see where she puts food. I want to

know when and where I'm going to stand the best chance of success when it comes

to traffic. So that's what tonight's recon's all about.

All right, I'm going to let you go back in. I'm going to go off on my own and do

some recon around here.

I'd love you to do it. Thank you.

Okay, see you in a minute.

So I want to get a feel for how many cats we have out here, but at the same

time, I want to get a feel for how many kittens we have that are tame enough to

be adopted, because really, feral kittens only have a very short window of

socialization. After a few months, by and large, they become too wild to be in

household. And that life that they're going to have outside is a lot shorter

than the life they would have had inside. It's a distressing reality.

Come on back over.

Man, if I can touch these guys, that means we might even be able to not have

trap you.

You, I can pretty much take, I think.

You think so?

My love.

My love.

I know. There you go.

Wow. Let me see that.

Half of me wants to take this guy with me.

He's right in between came and not.

Ah, this breaks my heart a little bit. Like, I don't want to leave him here,

but... I got no place to put him.

It's a rare thing to come up across a six, seven, eight -month -old kitten on

the streets who's feral, who is actually tame and can go home with somebody and

isn't in a home from somebody. And what these guys have to realize, this is a

ticking clock.

They are soon going to be adults who are unadoptable, and they are going to live

a very short life on these streets.

I mean, you've got to figure if you get them once, you're going to get them

again.

And the last place I want to check out is straight down this way.

Hi, babies.

Hi.

And these are all the kittens.

And we already found out that one of them is this close to tame.

There's a lot of cats out here.

Hey.

I think I saw a lot of the guys you're dealing with.

Let's sit down and I will give you your homework.

All right.

So there's part of this homework that's going to be very easy for you guys and

part that's going to be hard.

The easy part is consolidating the feeding station.

So I'd like you to get, I'd say, two feeding stations left.

What we're getting to the point where we can do is stage our first sort of mega

trap. The second thing I'm going to have you do, here's the hard part, is start

talking to the neighbors.

Okay, because we all have to be on the same page at the very least 48 hours

before nobody else feeds. Then we can trap. Otherwise, we don't have a chance.

The cats have to be fed in one place and one place only. Okay. So let's just

start there.

Oh, good. I'm glad you're happy at least.

I'm glad you're happy at least because I'm telling you these things and I know

that it's a lot of weight.

There's a lot of work to be done here. Ellen has to go around her neighborhood,

let her neighbors know what she's doing. It's really important to get community

buy -in, and it's on Ellen to get that ball rolling.

Have a good one.

All right.

I'm Debbie.

And we are in Marina del Rey, California.

And I have two Don's boys, which are Russian hairless cats.

Boris is two years old, and Igor is a year and a half. And they are insane.

Living with Boris and Igor is like living with two toddler chimpanzees with

razor -sharp claws.

It is constant chaos.

Oh, Igor.

They knock over all of my Day of the Dead stuff. Can't think it's the

thing ever.

My bathroom is one of the hot zones. If I do not keep the door shut, all hell

will break loose.

They make it nearly impossible to do anything.

Boris, come out of there, please. Cooking is one of my favorite things to

and it is now one of the most stressful things that I do.

Now I've got to clean up this disaster.

Enough is enough. Jackson, please come and help us.

I'm starting to be a nervous wreck.

Oh. Hey.

I'm about to meet Debbie and her two cats. Now, Igor and Boris are dance

Very energetic, kind of trouble -seeking, and that's exactly what I'm

into here. I got Debbie at the end of her rope, and I got two cats swinging

the end of that rope. Let's see what I can do about it.

Hello. How are you? I'm Jackson. So nice to meet you, Debbie.

Debbie, good to see you.

Have a seat. I was expecting to be completely accosted by crazy cats.

They've gotten shy now, and they're hanging out in the closet at the moment.

the closet. They're not really hiding. They're just on their top little shelf

there. Well, we'll go say hi to them and everything. So what differentiates a

Donskoy from a Sphinx?

Donskoy, the hairless trait, is dominant.

So they don't have as many health issues as Sphinx do.

Their one kind of weak spot is they're prone to gingivitis.

That's the worst? Yeah. Yeah, that's the bad.

They're highly intelligent. They're both smarter than what I call a hair cat.

I got Boris from a Ukrainian breeder, but I could not bear the fact that Boris

would be by himself.

So I decided to get Boris his own kitten. From the moment Igor arrived,

been constant chaos.

Fill me in. What's going on? My two Donskoy's are...

They're crazy pants.

Wait, I'll write that down. That goes in the free description.

Crazy pants. They have what we call riots, where they just get the spins and

running around the apartment like lunatics with razor -sharp claws.

They get in my face when I'm cooking, Boris especially.

He sits on the stove next to a pressure cooker by making homemade chicken stock.

Right on the stove. He's also taking a flying leap at the oven when there's

something in there cooking.

Wow. Debbie's kitchen is a playground for cats. Debbie is literally and

figuratively playing with fire up there, man. What about if we were just sitting

here hanging out watching TV?

I mean, Boris has an appetite for destruction.

What have they broken around here? Have they caused a lot of... Everything.

Welcome to his scratching post.

Really, really beautiful.

But, I mean, if I was him, I'd be like, game on.

You know what I mean? That cabinet, game on. I mean, there's a lot of game on in

this place.

The entire house is this wonderful folk art playground for little energetic

cats. Come on. If you already have cats that are Dennis the Menace incarnate,

you put stuff like this out there and you are asking for it. How many hours a

day are you away from the home?

You know, on a good day, 10.

On a day if I have to take clients out or I have an event.

then I don't get home until, you know, 11 o 'clock at night. Yike. Debbie

home as late as she does is a problem.

Her being gone for 10 to 12 hours a day and then expecting these already

energetic cats to just adhere to her schedule is completely unrealistic.

It's like having two preschoolers at home. If you've left two preschoolers at

home for 12 hours expecting when you come home for the place not to be

destroyed, you'd be wrong.

Well, what do you do?

I'm executive producer for a music company that does music for commercials.

Oh, right on. And I have taken them to the studio.

Seriously? Mm -hmm. Are they good there? Yeah. That might be a lifesaver there.

All right, let's get up, take a walk around here and see the kind of havoc

Don's Boys are wreaking around here, okay? Yes.

All right, into the bedroom.

Yep. Oh, I see a Don's Boy nose.

This is like the back -jumping zone. Igor.

Thinks I'm a human ladder. And he does it primarily in the closet when I'm

trying to pick out my clothes in the morning. And then I get a cat hanging

my back every day.

They are tree dwellers. They like to be up high.

And if you present that wonderful target...

Bang, man.

Donkeys are firmly tree dwellers. I mean, they perch on the top of a door

so I want Debbie to put up shelves that will lead to this final shelf where the

donkeys can be as gargoyly as they want to be, but they're not going to get in

their way at the same time. And that's something for us to work on. Yes. Okay,

great. I'm seeing some of your toys that are hanging out here. Go through this

with me. Mm -hmm. And show me.

What has high value? There is one toy that they really, really, really, really

like. I have no more of them because they break it in a day or two. Now I'm

getting to know your cats.

If it breaks, it's high value.

These guys destroy what they love. Right. You look at their toy basket and

just this mess of tangled nonsense.

It's time to get down and dirty about this kind of thing and show Debbie that

the only way your cats are going to be satisfied is if they have toys that

actually work for them. Now, moving over to artwork here.

This stuff is just begging for it. Oh, he utilizes it. He's knocked all this

stuff over. And this guy has made it almost 20 years, and he just broke it

week. Oh, man.

We have, I mean, this.

Oh, my God.

I just became a dance guy. I'm so sorry. Channel Digor.

Debbie's house is 90 % no zone.

I knock stuff off the shelf. Everything is a no. There's got to be a yes behind

every no, or nothing's going to work in this house.

So I like to cook a lot.

Okay. The last time that I was making soup stock, Boris got on the stove. He

turned on the burner with his foot. Whoa.

That stove, that's a disaster waiting to happen.

I'm in Marina Del Rey and I'm going through the house with Debbie. He turned

the burner with his foot. Whoa. That stove is a total catastrophe.

He's going to blow this place to kingdom come. Why you're not?

Home, that could happen.

Correct, and then ba -boom.

Ba -boom.

Now, I'm not taking this lightly.

That stove has got to be child -proof, and it had to happen yesterday.

I've seen plenty. Now comes the hard part. I need to give you some homework.

We've got to start thinking about the land of redirection.

What is the payoff for him jumping on your back in the closet?

Getting to the shelf.

Getting to the shelf.

So if we give him another way to get to that shelf, problem over. For Debbie's

homework, I want Debbie to be thinking about the concept of redirection.

Because we can say no, but we've got to leave them someplace else. The next

thing that we're going to work on is a sense of ritualizing their lives.

Eating is a ritual. In a perfect world, part of that ritual would also be the

play that comes before the meal.

Debbie works long days. Because of that, Boris and Igor accumulate energy as the

day goes on. They have to release that energy. It happens.

So I want her to feed them meals during the day and also to have a play session

before that meal so they get some energy out of them. Then they can rest. When

she comes home, it should be, hey, how you doing? Let's play and have a meal

go to bed.

Let's be as unbelievably safe as we can be. The first thing that you can do is

the child -proofing of the stove. Because the idea of those guys doing

that when you come home,

The tragedy awaits you is it's really not cool.

I am putting her to the test.

Everything's got to change in order for there to be success in here. We've got a

lot to do here to give you a sane life, but I think we've got a good start.

Thank you so much. Great to meet you. Great to meet you, too. All right, we'll

talk to you soon. Okay. Bye -bye. I feel a little bit of pressure, but where

there's a will, there's a way.

It is trap day. I'm back at Ellen's house. I was called in here by a woman

her sons who are feeding a lot of cats and the colony is completely out of

control. And I'm ready to go. This is a neighborhood problem. We're here to

provide a neighborhood solution.

Are you guys as excited as I am? Yeah.

Thrilled. So our plan was very light feeding last night with no goodies.

And today we're hungry. Right.

Okay. They're hungry.

Ellen's done exactly what I asked her to do. The key thing here was to stop

feeding the cats about 24 to 36 hours ago so they'd be hungry enough to get in

those traps. Because if they're not hungry, we don't catch cats.

Okay, so the next stop here, we've got a bunch of your neighbors who have come.

We've got representatives from SNP LA and Best Friends.

And we're going to go out there and just talk to everybody about what's going on

here today, okay?

Okay. All right, let's go on that side.

All righty.

Oh, cool.

We've got a bunch of people here. Hey!

This is a neighborhood thing, and that's why I thought it was so important to

call in people from the neighborhood so that we could explain this all to them.

We've got some serious A -rated trappers here. We've got my friend Destiny,

who's the cat initiative supervisor at Best Friends of L .A. She's got some of

her employees here with her. And these guys have been on, I don't even know how

many of these trapping expeditions. They're experts, if there ever have been

experts. Plus, I've got my friends here from the Spay and Neuter Project of L

.A. These guys do thousands and thousands of cat and dog spays and

every year, and they are all going to explain this to Ellen and her neighbors.

I'm going to let everybody start getting work done around here. I know we've got

information we can hand out, but at the end of the day, this is a neighborhood

issue. And in that respect, I just want to thank you guys so much for showing

the support that you are. Yes, and I thank you for supporting me. Right on.

All right, it's go time. We are setting up the traps right now. Ellen is going

to show us where to put these traps down, and then we're going to go catch

some cats.

So one of the things that we want to do with these traps is we'll go ahead and

bait the back of the trap.

This is where we want them to come.

The plexi door, which is really great because the cats think they can get all

the way through.

And then what we usually do is we start it off covered just because then it

doesn't look quite as scary as a big metal cage.

So what will happen is the cat will walk through and then they hit the trigger

and it closes.

I can't tell you how awesome it is that Tomahawk donated all of these traps to

our PNR cause in Los Angeles.

Let's go.

Ellen is so leading the way. She's like, get this done. Yeah, get this done.

Let's maybe put one there.

So we're aiming for it like in a perfect world. How many are we looking for

here? Seven.

All right. Seven cats.

We're going to put all of them down here?

No, I don't think we need to put all of them down here. Three here?

You will be one of them.

There is nothing like going on a TNR expedition to admit your own

I mean, we are doing everything we know how to do. I've got the best people here

I could possibly get. And yet, we're rolling the dice. We could get one cat.

could get none. We could get ten.

I swear to God, I heard a trap go off.

I don't understand why it's not happening.

We're putting down traps all over the place right now, and no, nothing.

We're disappointed, for sure. A lot of hard work that goes down the drain, and

it's cats who don't get spayed or neutered tonight.

I'm going to go check, because I think I just heard a snap.

I'm going with you.

Who's down there?

One of our guys or no?

That one gets ripped.

And the cat tripped them all.

What? He tripped all of them.

But it couldn't have been a cat. And two of them. So a little bit of an issue.

We don't know.

But in this driveway here, all three traps were sprung. Having one trap

by a cat is plausible.

But all three?

That was a human.

So we're starting to think that maybe somebody doesn't want us here.

In this driveway here, all three traps were sprung. We assumed we had the buy

-in, but that is a deliberate snubbing.

That is saying, I don't want you doing this at my house. A lot of the locations

that we go to, it's interesting because especially if a large family lives

there, it could be a family member who is nervous about us coming because he

doesn't believe that the cats will be returned.

It's very common to have people divided, not just in the community, but in a

household. Very complicated.

I'm staying as long as it takes, yeah.

I just want everyone else to sort of settle in.

What's happening is disappointing for sure, but it's not going to stop our

progress. We're going to continue moving forward.

We've set our traps in other places, and hopefully it's game on right now.

It's going to be a long night.

You guys ready?

Settle in.

I could just hear a trap.

You heard a trap?

Let's go.

All right, let's hope for the best.

We got a cat trap. No!

You really got one?

Everyone's coming out.

Hello, guys.

We got another one. We got two more over here at Ellen's house.

Four, baby. Four.

I think it's a blondie.

The traps are going off. Now, all the hard work.

All the groundwork that we've laid, all the groundwork that Ellen has laid over

the years, you see it all coming together with the sound of trap, trap,

Yay.

Come on over.

Triage is open.

So,

here's the official tally so far.

We've got seven cat traps right now, and our guess at this point is there's

more. You know, that's a great thing. The cover is off, and we're starting to

figure out exactly how many we've got to deal with here. But, hey, we're doing

it. We're getting this done.

It's been great.

It is a thrill to know there's support out there.

Finally, finally, finally.

I've been doing this a long time.

I just want to fix it. problem. And you guys show up and it's like the answer to

your prayers.

So what we'll do is we'll be back tomorrow morning to pick everybody up.

great.

We've got seven that are going in tomorrow.

We'll reconvene again.

We've left you with a couple of traps and try to finish up what got started

tonight. Good work.

So I'm back here to see Debbie and the Donskois of Doom, Boris and Igor. Man,

these guys were a walking disaster area, like the cat version of fighter monkeys

swinging from the chandeliers. And they were jumping on Debbie's back. We had

one of them jumping on the stove while she was cooking.

Look, all I wanted her to do was get some rituals into place, some routine in

these cat's lives.

And if she did it, I'm hoping I'm walking in there in some order.

If not, it's Donskoy destruction all day, every day. Let's find out.

Jackson! How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you.

And there's a boy.

Look, this time around I got somebody out to greet me.

Hello, mister.

Hello.

Hi.

I am so excited to see the both of you out and about.

Both Boris and Igor are out and about. Man, I want to take advantage of that.

Last time I was here, I didn't see anybody for a couple of hours. These

down for playing with me in the house, and that's a huge shift from last time.

Anything break since last time I was here?

So I'm back at Debbie's house with her and Boris and Igor. Man, these guys were

ripping the place up any chance they got. Hopefully, there's been a huge

from last time.

Anything break since last time I was here?

Nothing.

What do you think? What is it? I think it's the ritual play eat.

So you've been ritualizing?

Religiously, if you will.

Yep. Nobody ever does that, Debbie. Religiously. Not on the first go. It is.

Made a huge difference. That's so cool. Because of the routine, Boris and Igor

are no longer breaking everything in the house and driving her insane.

All right, let's take a look at what you've been doing.

We are going to play some games, and then we're going to have Din Din. And we

are starting a new routine.

We don't play for that long. I just get them really involved, and then I let

them catch whatever I'm playing with. And then I feed them, and then they give

themselves a bath, and they get in their bed.

That's great.

Here's the work in progress of the ceiling cat tree complete with cats on

They'll lead up to the top of the closet so they don't have to jump on me. Good

boys. You guys are so smart.

Brilliant. Brilliant. We got the crow's nest in the closet, another one in the

bathroom. At this point, we got Don's toys with places to go, things to play

with that have nothing to do with Debbie or her shoulders. She can get ready in

the morning without having her clothes shredded at the same time.

We are going to make cat TV.

Welcome in.

There you go.

That's fantastic. Some great stuff happening in there. I only gave a few

of homework. She took care of all the rest. Let's just explore since I'm here.

Oh, look what you did.

Yeah. Nice.

Yeah. One of those small things that means so much. This is just the baby

guards, right? The baby guards. And because of this, we don't have to worry

about putting caps on these.

And that fish tank is something else.

Getting the betta fish was huge.

And Boris, he was like, oh, my God.

And then he stays there the whole time I'm cooking. Look at that. Problem

solved, man.

One thing that I'm noticing here that we can still do something about. We go

from catch -free to sell, but we're missing. We got that drop -off over

So come over here.

Debbie's done all the homework right.

I'm just giving her tweaks just to make things even better than they already are

here. Do you have a ladder?

It's kind of a funky old ladder. Where is it?

It's out on the balcony. Cool. Oh, there it is.

Oh, my God. This is going to work beautifully.

You do not have to spend a bazillion dollars to have your cats be happy on

furniture. There's got to be something in your house you can use. All we've got

to do is catify it a little bit.

Good to go. These cats are going to love it. Now, let's see.

If we can entice your guys to jump up onto an area like this.

Come on up, buddy.

Come on up, buddy.

Look. Look.

Here we come.

That's my boy. That's my boy.

I would never have thought to use the ladder that way. Never in 10 million

years. But now, I think it's brilliant.

We've taken care of most every destructive problem that we've had in

Anything else I can help with?

Yeah. Igor likes water, but he's afraid to get wet, and I didn't start bathing

them when they were kittens like I should.

So that's why they get a little ring around the collar, you know? Yes. And I

chase them down with, like, baby wipes and stuff. Now, I think Don's boys are

the same as things they need baths, something like once a week, right?

So they say. So they say.

Whether you're Sphinx, Donskoy, or any hairless cat, you create a lot more oil

from your skin. And if your hairless cat absolutely won't take that bath, you

can try a fragrance -free baby wipe because these guys can get skin

just like that. You did a great job, and you did really good by your cats. I

passed the Jackson test. You did, man, with fine colors. I don't even have to

come back a third time. Debbie's a perfect example of what happens when you

listen and follow along with suggestions. Yeah, I get it. Debbie has

now. She knows how to utilize them. She knows how to look for trouble. If there

is any trouble, she knows how to fix it, but she's not going to need that

because the boys are fulfilled right now.

Mission accomplished.

Take care of yourself.

Taking on all of Jackson's homework has really impacted the quality of all three

of our lives pretty drastically. It's not perfect yet, but these cats haven't

seen anything yet. I've still got a lot of my fruit.

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.

Animals can sense danger well before humans can. Now Herbie is no different.

here on Staten Island to visit with Herbie and his family after he saved a

from dying. I just got to thank him.

Hey!

Hi, Jackson. Thank you for coming.

My name is Janine. I'm a single mom to two kids. I'm going into a master's

program, and I do a lot of cat fostering. So, Janine, tell me about

Herbie was a cat from the Pets on Death Roller.

I work with Staten Island Hope Rescue, and they had asked me if I would foster

him, and I said, sure.

And he just fit in right away. The one thing I can tell you is that this cat is

so friendly.

It absolutely comes to you, rubs up against you. You've got to think.

that he was put in your path for a very good reason. Yeah, so it was July of

2014. I was up all night. I was a new mom. I had two kids. I was in school.

I was so tired I just wanted to go to sleep. But then...

Herbie was jumping on my bed and jumping off and running to the door. And I was

so tired. I was like, all right, he's just being a cat. But something said

is not his personality. There's something wrong.

So I followed him, and he led me to my daughter's room.

And when I opened up the door, he jumped into her crib. And she had had her

little blank.

And she must have rolled over, and it went onto her face. And she was making

these, like, smothering noises, like she couldn't breathe.

He jumped into her crib and he was pouring at the blanket.

He saved my daughter.

That's incredible.

Every cat that's come into my life, there has been one moment where you go,

this is why you're here.

And I knew at that point, I was like, enough, he's my family.

You just earned it.

Meeting Herbie today is fantastic in so many ways. He saved a little girl's

life. Hi, Isabella.

Hi, Herbie.

And they saved his life. This cat was about to be killed in a shelter. He

wouldn't have had the chance to save these lives. This is this life -saving

cycle right in front of me.

Herbie looks like one big ball of perfect cat, but is there anything that

might need?

When I started fostering him and he came to the house, he started to pee and

poop in the tub.

At first I thought it was just, oh, he didn't like the cats, it's a new home,

but it's two years.

Does he use the litter box at all? He does. He just prefers to use the tub as

toilet. When I see cats that go into the bathtub, a lot of times it's sensitive

paws. And when they go to step in a litter box, it's those little pellets

really, really hurt them. The really kind of sand -like litters, that I would

definitely try.

Herbie is very sensitive and in tune with my family, but he also may be very

sensitive physically.

So I'm going to use the litter that's better for Herbie's sensitive cause.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad you were able to meet him. Having

Jackson in my home, it's just very validating that Jackson knows that

really is the hero. Bye -bye. Bye, Jackson.

Go and save an animal because chances are they may save you.

All right, I'm heading back to Ellen's feral colony for my last visit with her.

Now, we have had tremendous success here.

Seven cats the first night, but we had some serious unfinished business. I

that one of the cats that was trapped was a tame kitten that I was able to

up the last time I was here.

Cats tame enough that apparently they've named him Blondie and one of Ellen's

neighbors wants to adopt him, maybe.

Now, I have no idea how this is going to turn out in terms of making these cats

into domestic indoor companions.

But I do want to check in with Ellen's neighbor to see how it's going.

Okay. I can't tell you how excited I am to see this little boy.

The first night I was here, I met Blondie in the street. And at the time,

the most mortifying thought to me that I don't know what to do with him. I

wasn't expecting a tame cat while I'm out here scouting for ferals. If the cat

is tame, he should be in a home.

Hello, my little boy.

I couldn't stop thinking about him. Hi.

Is he at this point your cat?

Absolutely, 100%. Fantastic. I'm really glad that you made the commitment to

actually adopt him because there's that line where you say, are you feral or are

you mine? And you said you're mine.

And how could you say no? I couldn't be more happy. Seeing Blondie again

in the context of being in someone's life as their cat.

is an amazing feeling.

I mean, to know that he's going to be safe means more to me than anybody could

ever know. I can sleep at night. I know he's got a home. You're his adopted dad.

Yay. Okay. Thank you so much for that, man. Thank you for taking this boy off

the street. Yeah. All right. You take care, man. Yeah, take care. Bye.

All right, I'm on my way back to Ellen's house, and since the last time I

checked in, we're still trapping cats in this neighborhood because the job's not

done yet. But there's still feral cats out here.

If we're not trapped and neutered, that means that they're just making more cats

than all of us just for nothing. Look, there is no 75 % effort here. We're not

stopping until we're done. So now what's our grand total right now? How many

cats do we have?

Hello. Hello, ma 'am.

Since last I checked in, we're still trapping in this neighborhood because

job's not done. We're not done until we're sure we got everybody.

So now what's our grand total right now? How many cats have you caught?

What?

Fifteen. Fifteen.

That's amazing.

That is so cool.

Since Jackson was here last time, we've had eight more cats.

It's been a ride.

It's been great. It's really been great.

When I met you, you had... These cats, you had the fact that you were tired.

had been trying to do this by yourself all these years. Do you feel like that's

better now?

Yes, I do.

Thanks to you. I got to say, you look relieved.

I am.

I am. I felt like, you know, I was alone on the ship, but you helped me a lot. I

mean, as far as I'm concerned, in terms of helping this community's cats shrink,

I think we did it. We did it. We did it. And it just takes people who care about

animals like you do.

And you're...

Your care for these animals is inspiring, and I hope people understand

Thank you so much.

Yeah. Well, that's it for me.

And if you need anything in the future, hopefully you've got a network here.

Please involve me. I want to be able to be a resource for you, okay?

Okay. All right, cool. Thank you so much.

The first time I came here, Ellen was literally up to her neck in feral cats,

and now she doesn't have to live in constant stress.

But these cats don't have to either.

We had about 30 cats out there. We trapped and neutered over half of them.

call that a huge win.

We have a long way to go to make sure that every feral cat has an acceptable

life and that they stop reproducing. But it's days like this where I can look

around and say, yeah, man, we did our part. And doing your part, it's all it

takes.

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