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Something click and Twinkle becomes evil.

Get him to stay out of the kid's way.

Well, I'm not a fan of changing my house to fit an animal.

Please no fight back here.

Your other cats are so terrified that they will attack you in order to not

face to face with him.

Holy crap, he got you.

By the time I get back here next time, he's got to be someplace else.

She was born without her front leg, and it's a congenital condition.

Look at her voice. She gets around. It's amazing.

I'm Jackson Galaxy.

I am Cat.

The animal behavior.

Wow. The guardians 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 needs my help. You did it.

My name is Elaine.

My name is Eric. And we own and operate Happy Homes Animal Rescue in Old Bridge,

New Jersey.

All our rescues are from euthanasialists.

We also have a foster named Twinkle, but he's a different story.

Twinkle's been here about four months. We noticed that there was a major issue

with him when he began attacking the other foster cats.

As we learn more and more about him, we see that there is an aggression pattern

towards other cats.

Twinkle has attacked me several times.

I currently have to keep Twinkle in the garage to assure that he will not get

into the house.

My goal for Twinkle ideally would be to have him adopted and to go on to his

forever home.

If Jackson can't help Twinkle, This cat is going to be permanently living in my

garage. The longer he stays here, that's another spot for another cat to get out

of a kill shelter.

Jackson, can you please help Twinkle find a forever home? Give him the life

he deserves.

Hey. Hi.

How are you? I'm Jackson. Wow.

So tell me a little bit about Happy Homes Animal Rescue.

We can foster anywhere from 5 to 15 cats here. What do we got right now?

Right now we have 11.

11 fosters.

Through the years, I've fostered over 1 ,000 cats. Oh!

Yeah.

Wow! Yeah. I'm so impressed right now.

Wow. I am so impressed.

That doesn't happen.

Elaine adopting out 1 ,000 cats over the past few years, I mean, that's

incredible. And I owe it to her as a fellow cat rescuer to do everything I

to help out her situation.

All right, so that leads us to where we are. Give me a little bit of history

about Twinkle.

He was rescued from the euthanasia list about...

four months ago. He's sweet and he's social with people, except he's

cat aggressive.

We're not messing around. He sees them, he goes for blood.

He sees the sight of another cat.

He makes me bleed.

Damn it.

So any aggression towards humans is redirected aggression, right?

He'll look at you with these dilated eyes and this fur hanging out of his

and I'm like, what did you do?

What did you do?

Right, yeah.

How old is he again?

He's only a little over a year.

Yike!

Okay, that's a problem.

He's a teenager.

He's more rambunctious than he will be at any other point in his life. Right.

You take that energy, coupled with the cat aggression, coupled with the

isolation, that's a problem.

Let's start digging in here.

The first place I want to check out would be the cat room. Okay. You guys

taking me there? Sure. All right, let's go.

I want to take a look upstairs because something about the way the cats are

housed here could be causing Twinkle's cat aggression.

I need to rule out the rescue environment at Adelaide first before I

anything else.

These are the rescue cats.

Okay.

Hi, guys.

Look at everybody in here. So we have 11 cats in here? Mm -hmm.

Okay. They'll start coming out as they get more comfortable.

So all 11 cats get along just fine? Yes.

That's kind of remarkable. By the time you come back, the goal is this will be

all new cats.

Okay. A lot of these guys, some of them are special needs right now.

Okay.

Hi, baby doll.

Come here, my love.

I'm just going to hang out here.

I'm going to sleep here.

Hi, baby.

Seeing 11 cats in one room get along like this isn't just heartwarming. It's

proof that whatever is behind Twinkle's cat aggression, it has nothing to do

with the guardians or the foster environment itself. So now it's time to

Twinkle. All right, let's go.

Jackson's about to meet Twinkle, and I'm just wondering what is Twinkle going to

do? Is he going to bite? Is he going to attack?

Okay.

So he's just immediately wanted out of here.

Although it's a nice big space, that tells me something right off the bat. He

doesn't want to be in here.

Hey, buddy, buddy.

Come here and say hi to me.

That's okay.

So immediately, he's taking himself and erasing the smell of the other cat's

office. That's what he's doing, right? Yeah.

So he's taking his cheek glands.

He's taking, you know, anything he can. He's got a job right now. He is making

sure that, look at that.

that we are not going to smell like anybody else by the time we leave here.

that's really important to him. In the meantime, he's getting very activated

while he's doing that. This is a job. This is not play.

If you start petting and petting and stuff like that, you are getting him to

point where he is going to get worked up and he's going to start doing that.

Okay? Boom.

Boom. Boom.

This is all because of the other cats.

That's it.

Okay, Twinkle, my friend. No bite, no bite, no bite.

He's biting me now. Ow!

Elaine is, she's a little bit too much of a mom in this situation.

So Twinkle starts acting up, and she wants to pet him into control.

She's petting him out of control.

They're having a hard time adopting him out because all they're seeing is this

bad behavior.

They're not in any way thinking this is ideal. They want it over as much as

anybody else does.

What's that?

Okay, you see how well I knew what he was going to do, right?

Boom, boom. Oh, we are totally, like, on the move now. The garage. It's cold.

It's lonely.

There's no interaction with other humans. And then you meet Twinkle, and

this energetic, trouble -seeking, Dennis the Menace type of cat, and this is no

place for him.

This is the same thing as what he was just doing to you. This is not

He is just so filled with that static energy that he has to get it out of his

system.

He's about a year old, and he just wants to get in trouble and play.

The second I break out that toy, we know who this cat is.

Here's what I want to do.

I want to have Twinkle in the room.

I want to see, once another cat comes into the space, can we redirect him? Can

we get him interested in something else? Or is he going to go so singular?

that we won't be able to do it. I mean, normally we'd try to make an assessment

without seeing that, but I don't think there's any way.

All right, maybe we should do Linus. Linus, we'll try Linus, see if they can

interact. Okay. So you want to go try to get Linus? I'll keep this door closed

so that we have an airlock going on. We currently have five of our own cats.

Linus is the baby. He's extremely laid back. He loves to play with other cats.

And if Twinkle could be friendly towards any other cat, it would be Linus.

But when I brought Twinkle here, instantly he attacked my cat, Linus.

Twinkle comes anywhere near Linus, Linus will start growling automatically

because he knows.

Ow!

God's sake.

Holy crap, he got you.

You want to go try to get Linus? Linus is extremely laid back. He loves to play

with other cats.

But when Twinkle comes anywhere near Linus, Linus will start growling

automatically because he knows.

God's sake.

Holy crap, he got you.

It's a horrible feeling when a guardian gets attacked by their cat when I'm in

their presence. Linus attacking Elaine because of how scared he was of Twinkle.

We just got a pretty loud shot across the bow from the other residents of the

house. They're scared of him. Elaine, that's not scared. That's terrified.

I know. I am shocked that Linus attacked Elaine.

Elaine bottle -fed Linus since he was a few weeks old.

Just shocking.

Okay, come on in.

All right, so I still need to see Twinkle with another cat.

I've seen Twinkle work out.

I've seen him redirect that energy. Now, the only thing that I have not seen is

I haven't seen Twinkle with another cat in the room.

Now, in terms of another cat, where's the closest cat to him right now?

There is a cat. Hyann is an outdoor cat.

She comes in and she sleeps in the garage.

Oh. She's on the other side. Other side of what?

The door.

Now she has experience with him as well. Yeah. Okay, well here's the plan. I do

want to see him in the visual vicinity of another cat.

I'd rather there not be carnage. So what I'd like to do is use what I would call

sight blockers. So when I know the fight is beginning, I would plunk in between

and that way they just have that moment and then we can guide them away.

I figured that the most... organic way to make this exercise happen is to open

the door, separating the two parts of the garage, and have Twinkle come into

room where Cayenne is.

And if anything goes down, we can stop it before it gets too bad with sight

blockers. Basically, you can use a cardboard box, anything where you don't

to bend down and put your hand into the fray, then you can split them up. Oh,

here he goes. Okay.

So, in he comes.

Okay, so she sees him. She sees him. She knows.

Now he's just doing the... He may run up. Wow.

That right there is a portrait of mortal fear.

How many times have the two of them gotten into it? Three times. Three

Mm -hmm.

Oh, there's a hit.

Oh, boy.

Oh,

please, no fight back here.

There we go.

I chicken on Cayenne, and she's okay.

Up he goes. That's good. No, no, no, no.

You ain't going there.

No.

I am not letting you out there.

Man, he is driven.

When I reach up to even try to get him focused on something besides Cayenne,

That's when I got beat up.

Okay. I get you, baby. I get you.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Wow.

Driven he is.

We're going to get down.

We're going to get down.

Down, down, down.

Down, down, down.

Okay. Twinkle is not coming down from 100, even one point.

What is it, buddy?

What is it? What is it?

What is it? What is it? What is it?

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, come on, come on. Come on, come on, come on. There we go.

What's really important, we get out of that room. Elaine and Eric are shaken

I want to prove to them immediately that this energy that he's got in him can go

right into play.

That boy has an endless gas tank.

I wasn't expecting as much energy as he had to expend on that. And by the way,

he's still expending it. One of the things that we've seen today is it's not

just about him.

The damage that you took to your face today is because your other cats are so

terrified that they will attack you in order to not come face to face with him.

Okay. Let's leave him alone.

Go back in the living room and figure it all out. Okay. All right. Great. So far

in the course of just a few hours, I've seen Elaine's favorite cuddly sweet

house cat just carve up her face because he was so terrified of Twinkle. If

that's not enough, I saw Twinkle go to war with the other sweet cat living next

door in the garage.

And I already know from going upstairs that Eric and Elaine and the other

cats have nothing to do with the problem. I'm just going to hang out

I'm going to sleep here.

So that leads me to one stark conclusion about what's got to happen next year,

and I'm really afraid that Elaine's not going to like it.

I mean, here's my take, and it's plain and simple.

I think that the effort to get him socialized to other cats in this house

going to be a frustrating waste of time.

It's not a matter of, you know, let's get him to work with other cats in this

house. It's a matter of the only way we can work with him is not in this house.

He needs social interaction.

I really seriously feel that every day that we spend trying to find a solution

here is a day that's detrimental to him and for his development and detrimental,

potentially, to every other cat in this house.

So here's what I want.

By the time I get back here next time, he's got to be someplace else.

A home with no cats.

Out of this house.

Here's what I want.

By the time I get back here next time, he's got to be someplace else.

Out of this house.

Eric and Elaine's foster cat Twinkle has been terrorizing the other cats in the

house. After witnessing a pretty bad fight, I've had to make a tough

Twinkle's got to go.

It's an emergency placement.

He's just not here. And no cats.

A quieter house would be great. I want Eric and Elaine to utilize their local

Happy Homes Rescue Network to find a permanent home for Twinkle. I know that

there's a lot riding on this for you guys and for him and for every other cat

this house and potentially the home that he's going to.

live his life out and got to get twinkle out of this house in order to assess

what home is right for him i can't find out here he's so highly activated

because he's in the garage and because of his hatred for all these other cats

trying to figure out why certain cats hate cats a lot of times it's because of

their upbringing because they were taken away from mom and siblings at a very

young age so they wind up just resenting the presence of other cats and finding

them a consistent threat to territory and sometimes that'll wind up as a cat

like twinkle I will be in touch, okay?

Thank you.

It makes sense that Twinkle needs to find a home right away and not be stuck

a garage where he gets very minimal playtime. But that is a big undertaking,

I just don't know where I'm going to put him. I'm going to try as hard as I can.

I'm here for my second visit with Eric and Elaine and the cat Twinkle. And the

last time I was here, I made a really strong request, which was Twinkle had to

get out of here and into a home with no cats.

Hopefully what I'm going to find out today is that we're going to a new home

Twinkle because then I can start the integration work and get him settled

his new home.

Well, hi.

Hi. How are you? Welcome back. Thank you so much. I am a little on edge. I'm on

edge, too.

Well, what's going on?

Well, things have gotten a lot worse with Twinkle.

He jumped up and scratched my daughter.

Oh, my God.

So now my daughter's afraid of him. Oh, no.

Linus ended up getting a minor upper respiratory infection from all the

I walk into Elaine's house to just an avalanche of bad news.

Elaine has had it. She's done. She's fed up. So not what I was hoping for.

So the question is, did you find a foster home for Twinkle?

We did it. Oh, good.

Okay, good.

They're a first -time foster family.

Okay. They do have young children, which is a concern. They have a two -year

-old, a three -year -old, and a five -year -old. Okay. I am really concerned.

Twinkle is a high -stimulation cat. And as far as I know, kids under the age of

five are also very high -stimulation.

However, if this family is willing to follow my guidelines closely about

integrating a cat into a new home, I think I can make this work.

This is my last shot with him, I feel like. If we can make this work.

This could be a great thing. If we're ready to go, let's pack Twinkle up and

on the road. Let's do it. Twinkle is a victim of circumstance right now. He is

high -energy, one -year -old cat cooped up in a garage with absolutely no human

interaction. I've got to get Twinkle out of this house, and I cannot wait to

figure out who this new foster family is.

You ready to go for a trip? Oh, you're so beautiful.

You're so beautiful. You ready to go for a trip? He's all kinds of wound up.

You ready?

Go.

Yeah.

Ooh. There we go.

Come on, big guy.

I want to make sure that you have packed up everything, as litter boxes, bowls,

everything. I've got everything.

All right, son.

It's off to foster home with you. So now we snap into action. Time to get

Twinkle's life ready for a transition to a new home. The most important thing is

his stuff. Remember, ownership of territory.

Give cats their mojo. The stuff symbolizes ownership of territory.

All right.

Let's do it.

Tell me what your fears are today.

Fears are that he can be so overly excited and rambunctious that he acts

one of the kids.

They feel he's too much. He's all over the place. He gets wound up.

It's a guarantee any cat, let alone Twinkle, any cat is going to get riled

there's three rambunctious kids running around him.

You know, we need to set him up in the proper way.

If you don't get it right...

The stakes are fairly high, because not only does the family lose confidence in

him, we double the chance of him coming back to your house, and we do not want

that. My goal is not to move a cat out and be done with it. It's to make sure

the cat's in the right forever home, and that's really important to me. I agree.

Twinkle's a good cat. Having a home where he can cuddle up on a couch with

somebody is really what Twinkle needs.

He can be extremely loving at times, very social and sweet.

You ready? Let's do this.

The one thing we do have going for us right now is that Twinkle only redirects

his aggression onto humans when there are other cats present.

Leave the way.

I hear kids.

We pull up, and before we even get in the door, I hear children. And I hear

children at, like, volume 11.

You hear kids, too?

And I am more nervous than I have ever been before.

You ready? Let's do this.

I hear kids.

We pull up and before we even get in the door, I hear children. And I hear

children at like volume 11.

Do you hear kids too?

And I am more nervous than I have ever been before.

Hello, how are you?

Good, how are you? I'm good, I'm Jackson.

Kevin. Kevin, good to meet you. Nice to meet you. And this is Twinkle. Nice to

meet you. Come on in. Hi guys. So, I've never had a cat before. I've had dogs in

the past.

My wife and kids wanted a cat, so we'll see how it goes.

Oh boy, it's a cat.

Hey, how are you?

I'm Jackson.

Say hi really quickly.

Oh boy.

Let's head into the back with him, which is where we're going to set up

Twinkle's base camp. Base camp is really important because it gives the cat a

sense of ownership, of territory.

A scent soaker literally soaks scent in. So that's everything from his tower,

which is great, his bed, his dishes, his litter box is the king of all scent

soakers. Once the cat owns that first spot, that first piece of real estate,

then we take all the things that define safety and we move it out to the rest of

the house. Wherever there's a scent soaker, There's home.

Hey, Candice?

Yeah? Come on in. I just wanted to show you the concept I got here. This is all

Twinkle's stuff.

And the way that I've laid it out here is we're making something that I call

Base Camp.

So I took his tower and put it right by the window. That way, he can spend time

getting the vibe of the whole neighborhood just by that window. We can

the window. Plus, when the kids come in to visit him, he has the option of going

up, away from fingers and hands, and...

seeing what they're all about, right?

And the cherry on top is this bed.

This bed is on your bed. Now we're starting to mingle his scent with yours.

as soon as he gets out of this thing, he's going to go, okay, them plus me.

Equals something, right?

My hope is he falls into the rhythm of this family.

It takes cats a good week to fall into that rhythm. So allow that. Allow Base

Camp to really be his chill place.

The reason why it could take up to a week for a cat to become confident and

ownership of their territory is because their scent is so strongly associated

with the sanctity of that territory. Plus, it does take a while to build up

trust with the new guardians.

Because this is a home with three kids under the age of five.

It's a bit of an uphill battle.

You guys ready?

Sure. Let's let him out, man.

All right, buddy.

Welcome to base camp.

Hey.

Welcome to... Wow, he is just all about it right now. I want you to meet

somebody. He's like, wait a minute. I got stuff to do. I got stuff to do.

Hold on. Okay, wait. Look at this. This is how base camp works, right?

Okay, so, right, my box. Okay, I get that. It smells like me.

Wait, this smells different. This is somebody else. I smell something new.

Okay, we got new stuff here. Look at the way he's exploring all of this.

This is all yours, buddy. He's taking every ounce of it in. Let's see if he

wants to go up on his tree. That would make me really happy.

Atta boy, Dave.

That's what I wanted. That's such a great sign, I got to tell you. Right off

bat. Nailing the whole house like that? Ooh, that gives me goosebumps a little

bit. I don't know, that's the kind of cat guy nerding out, I know.

Man, he is such a confident cat.

Well, look, he's in the perfect position right now. He's up and away from the

action. Let's bring the kids in. What do you say?

Okay, cool. All right. All right. Hey, cat.

You know, the funny thing is, is that he's not nervous at all, but I am. I'm

nervous with Twinkle around children.

per se.

I'm nervous with Twinkle around three children under the age of five years

My stomach starts doing back flips, man, because I can control the cat, but I

can't control the kids.

Hi. Go say hello.

Hello. Hello.

Can we introduce me to the kids? This is Levi. Hi, Levi. Cheyenne and Preston.

Cheyenne and Preston. With all this noise, he's doing pretty okay right now.

Yeah. He's keeping himself away from the action a little bit, which I like.

Now, of course, your job as parents here.

is to keep them away from his action. Right now, he's just getting worked up

because he's in a small space and there's a lot of noise and action going

here. And that is when he's going to get mouthy, right? So it's really

important. And I know it's tough because, you know, your kids are at a

young age right now.

Right? So if Preston right now were to reach and grab, he's going to get it.

Most important thing is to not set Twinkle Up for failure.

I want to teach you guys really fast how to play with cats.

It's important that we start teaching the kids right now that play is not done

with hands because I give you three hours and someone's going to get there.

I'm concerned about Twinkle biting my children. It would be a deal breaker.

However, Jackson teaching us that play is essential for a cat, I think will

definitely help defer any type of scratching or biting.

So this thing is your best friend. So look, there's all this stuff going on.

He's immediately into this. Look at that.

Immediately. This is all he cares about. And this is a way to get all of that

electricity out of his system right now. Now, here's a great little tool for the

parents right now.

If you want him out of the way of the kids, this is the way to do it. Watch.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Right? So I've got him up and out of the way of

the kids right now. So they can be watching him.

And look at that.

Look at our little hunter.

This is one of those cats.

You want to bring the thing out of them. When they're hunting.

they feel like a complete cat, right?

If you guys can get this kind of behavior out of him, and I'm talking

almost an hour a day, you won't have to worry about any of this. You want to

try? Yeah. You ready?

Go for it. Okay, let's make it long. And this is the best part, right?

There are the hands.

There's the toy.

Go for it. Swing it.

Swing it. There you go.

Good job.

Good going, man.

He's had so much vented up energy at my place. He is one of the most energetic.

I think they're going to tire him out.

I would be the happiest guy in the world if that were the case, man.

There you go.

These kids are always going to know that playing with this cat means having your

hand on a toy.

The kids are all fighting over who gets to play with the cat with the toy.

That's fantastic.

At the same time, having three children under the age of five and a cat is

barely contained chaos.

But if I can get these kids playing with Twinkle, he's going to get that energy

drained out. As long as we can control his energy, things might work out here.

I'm really encouraged by what I'm seeing, but I also have concerns.

For instance, maybe he shouldn't be around kids under five.

But in the meantime, I hope it works. And to maximize the chances of that

happening, I taught you both how to play.

It is the most important tool that you guys got because number one, you saw

that toy, it keeps hands far away from the action. Next thing, I have a concept

called the cat superhighway. The cat superhighway is this concept where if a

can be in a room and go around the room without hitting the floor, everybody

wins, right? Kevin, if you could find a way to attach that tree,

for instance, to these shelves where it's just a little shelf so we could

up and then he's up.

Get him to stay out of the kid's way so he can make that choice.

I'll meet them on the floor. It's my choice.

Or I'll observe the mayhem from over here because it looks a little

I'm not a fan of changing my house to fit an animal.

As far as the shelves, I don't like it. All I'm saying. If he can get there

without it, God bless him.

Well, I'm not a fan of changing my house to fit an animal.

I'm here at Twinkle's possible foster home.

Twinkle seems to be doing really well so far. Suddenly, I'm getting pushback

from Kevin about the catification.

That could be a red flag.

I'm not going to go out of my way to build something so he can get on my

shelves. All I'm saying... If he can get there without it, God bless him. He can

stay up there. I'm saying, listen, this is all I'm saying, is I'm trying to set

you up for success. I'm doing it because, like... If he makes your kids

a regular basis, then he's coming back to Elaine's garage, and I don't want

to happen. And it will happen if he's always hanging in the way of their

So think about it this way.

Even if it's temporary, even if it's something that we can set up and you can

rip down, I'll put it out there that the only way I know how to make this work

is to keep him up.

I'm concerned because of who he is. I mean, we're not pulling punches. He's a

cat who gets overstimulated easily, and he's got sharp nails and sharp teeth,

and he's used them before.

So I just want to make sure that we stay as safe as possible. I don't want the

kids to freak him out or him to freak them out. I want it to be a great

relationship, so, like, I just want to see it work.

When I come back here next time, we're going to come to a decision. Is Twinkle

going to just be here temporarily?

Or is he going to be your cat?

You guys got two weeks to decide because we need to be working towards a forever

home for Twinkle. I'm totally excited and a little on edge. I'm not going to

to you. All right, time for us to go.

I'm hoping this is going to work. I really am. Well, I'm treating these guys

foster parents first.

Possible forever home second.

It's important that they lay a foundation that's good for Twinkle. We

him leave this home afraid of children, man.

That will put Elaine behind the eight ball in a huge way. So we've got to make

sure that they do it the right way, and they do it now. Bye, guys.

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.

My name is Jackie, and I'm guardian to Little Bunny Suru. My name is Curtis. I

am Jackie's husband. I am also Little Bunny Suru's guardian.

Roo is a cat from heaven, and she's just been a tremendous inspiration to us and

our friends and family.

I'm in New Orleans, and I'm here to visit with Curtis and Jackie and their

Little Bunny Suru. Now, Little Bunny Suru only has her two hind legs, but

has not slowed her down one little bit. She's inspirational to hundreds of

thousands of people around the world. Now, that's a cat I've got to meet.

Hi. Oh, my gosh. You are gorgeous.

Tell me how you got her. Well, I work at a vet clinic, and one of our clients

was contacted by a shelter that someone had surrendered a two -legged cat. I saw

her photo, and it was absolutely love at first sight, and I brought her home

that night.

So, tell me about her front side here.

So, she was born without her front leg, and it's a congenital condition, so it's

all she's ever known.

The tail is also natural?

Yeah. Look at how moist it gets around. It's amazing.

It's absolutely amazing.

Little Bunny Suru was born with a rare condition called terminal transverse

hemimelia. Terminal in this case means a permanent condition that is not life

-threatening. This cat does not see herself special needs. She's a cat.

She gets her out.

You've done a great job with her because, I mean, just behaviorally,

so present. She's so fearless.

We continue to be so impressed by her. Is there anything going on here that's

not kosher? Well, one thing with Rue is she doesn't travel very well for a

medical reason or even just coming to the clinic for a regular checkup. Is it

because she hates the carrier?

Yeah. So how about you take me to where the carrier is, and let's start working.

Cats generally don't like the carrier, and that's because they associate it

going to a place they don't like. In Little Bunny Throughroof's case, that's

vet. Now, it's not uncommon at all, but it doesn't have to be this huge

challenge to get them to make that positive association.

So it's all about positive reinforcement.

And then you start training her. Train her to go in. And as soon as she gets

click treat, right? And then come right back out again.

Oh boy, this is going to be easy. Now she's going to go in, and as soon as she

crosses the threshold, there you go, now the treat. See how easy this is.

We use click and treat method. So when little bunny Suru hears the click, she

knows she's done something right and that a treat is coming. Me too.

And this process keeps her coming back and creates a positive association with

the carrier.

Now the second she eats that, she's going to see the laser, come back out,

now again, as soon as she's out.

Exactly. She's going to go back in.

And then there we go.

This is her place. She loves it. There's no problem. Now we're out again. What's

going to happen very quickly is that she's going to not have any association

with in, out, in, out. And then you go up, you go down, click treat. Zip, zip.

And then pick up, pick down. Break it down into every last motion. And once

do that, you really shouldn't have much of a problem with it. So Jackie's going

to break it down to micro challenge lines to make sure that the carrier is a

positive association.

She is an amazing presence.

At what point were you like, we've got to show her off to people?

Our number one intention was to just have her. And then it was like, hey,

share her with the world.

Overnight, she gained 20 ,000 followers.

So how many fans do we have on Instagram right now? She is just about to hit 300

,000. Goes really quickly, yeah.

It's been a really wonderful thing to share her. So many people all over the

world love her just as much as we do.

There's plenty of people that say, I want one, or I want Roo, which they

have Roo. You've got 300 ,000 people that are telling Jackie and Curtis, I

your cat.

And it suddenly occurs to me, these guys can be a massive instrument for change.

I can hook you up with pictures of one adoptable special needs cat after

another, and you can make the most unbelievable difference in the lives of

thousands of special needs cats.

I would love that. I'm looking forward to using Rue's Instagram page in order

help other special needs cats.

I know that there are a lot of other animals that would certainly enrich

people's lives and give them the same joy that we found with Rue. I am so

psyched that I came and spent some time with you. We are too. It's so good to

meet you, Jen. Hey, it's been fun.

All right. Bye, guys. Bye -bye now.

There are special needs cats that die in shelters by the thousands every single

day because there's an assumption that nobody wants them. If little bunny Suru

is so widely desired by hundreds of thousands of people, then we can tell

they can have their own little bunny Suru by adopting a special needs cat.

Today is a huge day.

I'm here at Elaine's house to check out how life has been post -Twinkle. I'm

sure a little bit quieter. And then I'm going to head over to McGinn and figure

out how life has been with Twinkle and whether he's got a foster home, a

home, or no home.

Hey. Hey.

How are you?

I'm doing great, thank you.

It's been a long road.

I just got a feeling that at least...

Life has got to be a little quieter around here, yeah? Absolutely.

You're good.

You've got cats who are walking around unfettered. Yeah, Linus is doing better.

He's feeling better.

Can I say hi to you?

Can I say hello?

He's like, remember that cat you made me hang out with?

I know. He's still, like, a little bit cautious about going near the garage

door. Ow!

So the first time I was here, we needed to see Twinkle with another cat.

That happened to be Kyanne. She's like totally back to the amazing cat that she

is. It's incredible. I mean, I've had the experience too. You have one cat in

house full of cats and kaboom, everything twinkles down.

The twinkle down effect.

Yeah, it added a lot of stress to the household.

On a scale from 1 to 10, I'd say it's a 10 that Twinkle is not here right now.

Things are great.

I got to tell you, I was actually pleasantly shocked when we went over to

McGinn's house. We walked in there.

Mayhem. I mean, I was so overstimulated that I couldn't even be in public for 24

hours after that one.

But he was just like, this is my energy.

This is what I'm all about.

It seemed like a good fit.

Listen, I mean, I don't know about you, but my worry was...

Kevin was brutally honest, and he said, I don't build for Kat.

They fit into my life, but if Twinkle has to compete for floor space with

children under the age of six years old, that's too much. So if for some reason

the McGins aren't going to work out, then we'll make something work out, but

he's not coming back here. Thank you.

You're welcome.

After seeing how much better life is for Elaine and her animals at Happy Homes

Animal Rescue, I realized that I can, in good conscience, allow Twinkle to come

back to this house. So I'm going to personally take on the responsibility

whatever happens to Twinkle from this point on. Bye.

Thank you.

Twinkle's counting on you.

I'm here for my final visit with the McGinn family, Twinkle's foster family.

It's make or break time. The last time I was here, Kevin had reservations about

commitment, which gave me my own reservation.

Hi. Hi, how are you?

I'm good. How are you doing? Good. What a good -looking cat you are.

Hello, my friend.

Hello. What the heck is going on here, man?

I mean, not that I'm shocked or surprised or anything like that, but I'm

shocked and surprised.

This is the first time I've ever seen him sitting still before.

When I left you guys, I was worried about him with the kids. Have you had

problems with him?

No. Nothing. Nothing. He seems just so well -adjusted to your life. Look at

You'd hear the kids starting to scream.

And look at him.

He does not give a rip.

He's just looking up to his tree. Yeah, there he goes.

Well, from what I'm seeing and hearing and everything you guys have said,

Twinkle seems to love his new home, so that's nice.

I actually changed his name.

Oh, did you?

What's his name?

Tucker. Oh, that's a good one.

Sure, it's nice that this family gave Tucker his new name, but that's still a

far cry from actually committing to him for the rest of his life.

Also, there's just something about Kevin's body language that's just off.

But regardless, it's time to put them and Tucker's future to the test.

If you guys want Tucker as a forever home, I want you to have him if you want

sign the papers.

I'd like to talk to you one -on -one outside for a minute.

Heaven needs to talk to me about something. It feels like you're in the

of a wedding and the preacher says something like, speak now or forever

your peace. It can't be a good thing when they speak. I do have a few issues.

I do have a few

issues.

This is a problem because the only plan B I've got here is me taking Tucker

back. And to where, I have no idea. So I'm really hoping it doesn't come to

that. As you can see, it's a very chaotic house. And having a chaotic cat

somewhat checkered past.

He's had a little bit of violence, and I'm not really sure if I want that for

family. I get you.

I got you. Believe me, I thought about it too when I brought him over here, and

I was really concerned. But when I saw him interact with your kids, and I know

that he's been okay for two solid weeks with you guys, I will stake my

reputation on this one.

You guys are the right home for this cat.

You mind if I take a moment to talk it over with my wife, and then we'll give

you an answer? Sure, man. Take your time. All right. So Kevin and Candace go

into the next room to talk about this whole thing.

I'm left sort of twiddling my thumbs and sweating this one out, man, and

wondering if this is really going to happen.

You can come back in. Okay, thanks.

So, where are you guys at?

We've come to a decision, and we're going to go ahead and adopt Tucker.

Yeah? Yeah.

Yeah. Yay!

Yay! You got a cat brother!

You guys are the right home for this cat.

I have rarely experienced the cat.

Just coming together with a family like this before, I mean, it was really

magical the way he just got here and he was home.

Let's sign those papers, yeah?

It's time for the big moment here, guys.

Let's fix this.

There.

There's my OK, and whoever wants to sign, right down there below my name.

Fantastic. You guys are now officially the guardians of a cat named Tucker.

Congratulations.

The thing I love about placing Tucker in this home is that you wouldn't think it

was the right home. And we saw through that, and he surprised us all.

It's been wonderful working with you guys. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. I love the idea of a young cat being brought up with young

children. These kids are going to be teenagers.

They're going to be going off to college, and there's going to be Tucker

goodbye to them. Thank you. Bye, buddy.

All right, guys.

Take care of yourselves, okay? Thank you. All right. Bye -bye. Bye.

Ah, that feels good.

God, that feels good. This is the right home for that cat.

He is going to be the happiest cat in the world. I am the happiest cat daddy

the world right now.

We win. All of us.

All snuggled with Kevin.

The hell isn't over yet. Go to the My Cat From Hell Facebook page for

Microsoft's gifts and much more.

Bye.