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

continue my journey to showcase

America's heavenly cats. Hello, buddy.

The kittens!

It's incredible to see this cat's journey and tackle some of my most

cases to date.

The hair cats might be trying to kill us. Oh my God, look, look, look, look,

look. I was not prepared for it. It was like this huge one -tooth hunch for Sid.

Here's your new house, and by the way, here's your new brother, and he is the

spawn of the devil.

Maybe I shouldn't be doing this anymore.

He's asking for help, and I'm ignoring helping him.

It's probably a matter of days until we get rid of Bowie. That puts them...

Pressure on. My mission continues to prove there are no bad cats.

Let's go save some cats. What do you say?

Just cats that need my help.

I'm

Stacy,

and this is my daughter, Daniella. And we have two cats, Missy and Fluffy.

My mom adopted Missy about five years ago, and I adopted Fluffy a year ago.

Missy, no.

Missy does not like having Fluffy living in this house.

She bites and scratches. She rips hair out of him.

She's drawn blood from him before.

She sits outside of my door because she knows that Fluffy is in my room. She

just waits for any opportunity.

to get at Fluffy.

Honestly,

I think that Missy could kill Fluffy.

The only option that we have right now is keeping them in separate rooms at

separate times, and we switch them every four hours. Fluffy comes out, Missy's

in her room. Missy comes out, Fluffy's in his room.

It consumes our day.

If someone doesn't do the switch right, then it turns into an entire argument.

It's gotten to the point where my mom and I literally argue about everything

when it comes to Missy and Fluffy.

Close your door so I can let Missy out because it's been like five hours.

Then we have to get my husband involved if he's the one here.

My day's off.

When I'm sitting here relaxing, I'll get pecked. Which cat is out? I need to

change the cat.

Your turn, Fluff. Time to go in.

It's just becoming too much.

You four hours.

Missy has attacked me when I tried to interfere with Fluffy. She just snaps on

anyone.

We try and pet her and she turns around and bites me.

It's scary. It's really scary.

I'm just so terrified.

Every time that Missy does attack Fluffy, it's hard for me to avoid

at my mom about it because at the end of the day, Missy is really her cat where

I feel like she should have.

I've done something to stop it.

Fluffy's my baby. I love him. And if anything were to ever happen to him, I

don't even like to think about it because I don't want to live a life

him.

How are you doing? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Hey, guys.

Stacey, Daniela.

That's Missy. Well, hi, Missy.

Where's Fluffy? He might be under my bed.

He showed up at our house as a stray in the past year.

And then Missy's been in the house for how long? We've had her for five years.

Since she was a baby. Yeah. You got her as a baby. Yeah. So she was an only calf

for four years.

Mm -hmm. Okay, and what is the situation?

Missy wants Fluffy dead.

Oh.

Full on, jumping on top of him, attacking him. She had cut his nose at

point. Wow.

And Fluffy just curls up and does nothing. The worst it had ever gotten

Fluffy was just chilling, laying around, and she was ready to attack Fluffy.

And my mom would grab Missy. Big mistake. Did she get pretty badly beat

Scratches up her arms, both hands.

Oh, my God.

Oh, that's a bad fight.

She was on antibiotics for 10 days and shot. And a painkiller shot. That was

my... That took it to the next level when that happened. That's ugly. We

like, just keep letting this happen, so we just had to completely separate them

at all times. So we do shifts.

What do the shifts look like? Every four hours, we split.

On the dot? Yeah, they're on the dot.

I'm like, oh.

It's very frustrating. We haven't been able to do anything as a family unless

come back or somebody stays here. That's really what's taking the toll right

now. Missy will be locked in my mom's room.

while Fluffy's out here enjoying his space. And then once it's time to

we put Fluffy in my room, Missy comes out. Okay. We get into it sometimes. I

don't want to argue about cat stuff with my daughter.

I'm sure the arguments center around my cat, your cat. What is the thing that

sets you off? If you give one cat an extra hour, then...

You know, my mom would be like, well, it's Missy's turnout.

Right, right. The last switch of the day or morning is about 2 or 3 in the

morning. I stay up every night to make sure that the cats get enough time out.

Wow. It's everything.

You're going to switch cats at 2 o 'clock in the morning? You think the cat

cares where they are at 2 o 'clock in the morning?

Let me wake you up here for a second. No, they don't care.

Was Fluffy neutered by the time he got here? He was.

Okay. How old was Missy when she got spayed? She has not been spayed.

What? Why is your cat not spayed?

It's down on the list of expenses.

We absolutely love our vet and we trust her. And if our cat was to go under

surgery, we wouldn't be with her.

But it's like $500.

Your cat is your family member. It's one of your children.

Find a way to pay for it. Go to a clinic.

We haven't gotten her fixed because it's expensive.

And I'm afraid to get somebody.

I don't trust to do the job correctly.

Just like with humans and with animals, going to surgery makes me very nervous.

This is one of the simplest, easiest, quickest operations.

I think they need to hear that from you to go to the clinic. I'm telling you,

any vet hospital.

does a spay three, four, five times a day. It should be a fairly simple thing.

Daniela and Stacy are consumed with the fear that the surgery is going to kill

Missy. And in the meantime, they're ignoring the fact that if they don't do

Missy's going to kill Fluffy.

It's a must for so many reasons.

Every time your cat goes into heat, she triples her chances of ovarian cancer.

And most importantly, her hormones.

are making this happen. The last thing I can do right now is make a concrete or

reliable behavioral diagnosis when everything that's happening right now is

physical.

What is she staring at? What's down the hallway?

Down the hallway to the left is fluffy. No, she couldn't be.

She goes... So, Danielle, this is your room? Yep, and she goes right to it.

Oh. She just will sit there and she will wait until there's some...

opportunity that the doors open and she'll go at it. Missy is just parked

outside of Daniela's bedroom knowing that Fluffy's in there and she's just

bring it. I want what's in there. Well, here's what I want to do. I would like

to see the switch.

Now, I've seen Missy. I've seen her body language.

I've gotten a lot of information from her.

Now I want to see Fluffy. Fluffy's been sequestered away all day. I want to see

this swap happen.

Hey, Missy.

She knows it's coming.

So this is every time? Yeah.

Come on. You got to go.

You got to

go.

I've seen Missy. I've seen her body language. Now I want to see Fluffy.

been sequestered away all day. I want to see this swap happen.

Oh, God. I can't tell if Missy's desire to be out here is just because we're out

here and she's a social cat or whether she's got murder on her mind. Whatever

is, it's not a good sign.

Did she get you?

Hello. Okay. Normally, in this kind of a situation, I would bring the cats

together so I can gauge their behavior around one another. But as long as Missy

has not been spayed, that is not on the menu today.

Hello, Puffy.

Huh? Hi.

You want some food?

Come on, buddy.

Okay.

What's that?

That is probably Missy scratching at the door trying to come out. That sound is

Missy? Trying to get out of the room. When she knows that Fluffy's out here,

just goes out the door because she wants out.

She means business. Now, just because I can't make a clean diagnosis about Missy

because of her physical state doesn't mean I can't give these guys homework. I

got plenty for them.

First, we are going to get Missy Spade.

Does Missy hate Fluffy? We have no idea. We don't know. So appointment gets

made, she gets in, remembering that as the hormones go away, we've still got

other issues, everything from seeking mates to protecting her territory to

guarding to that sort of hypervigilance. We're going to have to work that after

the hormones are in her system.

The next thing I want you guys to do is feeding reintroduction exercise.

I want you to feed them on either side of the door so there are no sight lines

and they can't see each other. First couple of meals, four feet on either

of the door, eight feet total. And then you gauge.

If at that meal they just eat, walk away, next time a little six inches

And also, no feeding between meals.

What we're trying to rebuild here is a sense of neutrality. You're not a good

thing or a bad thing, but every time I smell you, I smell food. It's a good

place to start.

And we're reintroducing these guys as if nothing bad ever happened. Next thing,

catification, the art of arranging for cats. We're building for the future.

is obviously not going to happen tomorrow.

But when these guys are out at the same time, we're going to try to mitigate

places where there are dead ends.

And ambush zones.

I want to make sure that Fluffy and Misty never have an excuse for fighting

that's based on ambushing or cornering. The hardest part of this traffic flow

situation is going to be that hallway.

Because if these guys are always competing for floor space...

That hallway is going to be a place where all the fights happen. What I want

to think about is lanes of highway, and then we have ramps that lead to those

different places. So they can go on ramp, off ramp, different lanes of

no dead ends, no ambush zones.

Last thing, the whole four -hour switcheroo thing, there's no reason for

all. Usually I am all about... rituals and routines.

This time around, I'm going to say the opposite. I want to see Fluffy sleeping

in your room. I would like to see Missy sleeping in your room. We want them both

to own the space, separately at this point, but equally.

I need Stacey and Danielle to spend some more time bonding with each other's

cats and create a whole family out of this and not this silly competition.

You guys all right with that?

Good? All right.

I don't know. To break the rituals, it's going to take the whole family to make

the changes because we have all gotten into a habit of us doing it a certain

way. I will see you in just a few weeks, all right? Thank you.

Take care, guys.

We got work.

Yeah, you do.

My name is April, and this is my wonderful husband, Brett. We have a nine

-old son, Braylon, and his best friend, our cat, Candy.

I love Candy more than anything.

She's my best friend. Braylon and Candy are like an old married couple. They

cuddle together, they play together, but they also fight.

At any given time, she just changes.

Scratch, bite. I think she's bipolar.

She attacks Braylon more than anybody in the house.

It makes me sad when Candy bites me or scratches me. Sometimes she'll just

attack me at a random time for no reason at all. As a mom, it's very frustrating

to watch Candy.

bite or scratch Braylon, it makes me feel helpless because we don't know when

she will do it. Not only is she attacking and hurting Braylon, she's

tearing up our house.

Candy has completely destroyed all the furniture in this house. Both sides of

the chair where you can actually see the wood, all four dining room chairs.

I just had it. If Jackson can't help us, Candy is out of here.

I'm Jackson.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Hi, how you doing? Brett. Brett, good to see you. Hey, man.

I'm Jackson.

Good to meet you, man. Walking in here, the problem is pretty bad. The house,

the walls, the furniture have been shredded by candy. She has some

behaviors. She is completely destructive.

Okay. She destroys all the furniture, the walls, and the carpet. The other

is, one minute she loves you.

The next minute, she's attacking you. The person she attacks the most is our

son, Braylon, who she's the closest to.

So we've got a double problem here. A double problem. And, of course, the most

pressing one is you.

I see some marks on you, man. Are these all her?

Yeah. She jumped on me, and then she bit me right here, and then she scratched

me right there.

Wow. So she's actually leaving scars.

She literally marks all over his body, yeah.

Has she made you bleed before?

Yes.

Does it happen a lot?

Yes.

What's a lot?

Once or twice a week.

Excuse me?

See, that's it for me. I don't know if we should keep her. I think she needs to

go.

Braylon, you're getting beat up more than anybody else. Why do you think so?

I don't know.

Cats don't randomly attack and make little kids bleed.

Something's just not adding up here.

Candy seems a little scared right now. It's probably because there's a stranger

in the house. It's time for me to go over there and just take her temperature

little bit. You guys gave me a lot of good stuff. Now, I want to hang with

Candy, so give me a second.

Candy?

It's okay, honey, I know.

Hi, my love.

Are you safe?

It's okay. You don't have to be scared.

Candy?

Oh, my love.

Are you scared?

It's okay. You don't have to be scared.

So I go to check up on Candy, and she's pretty agitated.

full of energy and she wants that energy out and she got it out of my hand.

All cats are energetic balloons.

If there's nothing to hunt, then you are just this balloon just waiting for a

nine -year -old to come around and pop you.

Alright, so here's what we're going to do.

I'm going to be candy.

I'm not going to bite you and I'm not going to scratch you. You know that

where you come running into the room and you're telling your mom she just

scratched you?

Tell me what you guys would be doing. I would just be

Sitting down laying there, and she would be like someone like this right there.

All right, so I'm just going to lay down here.

I would just rub her head or scratch her neck.

If I'm going to sit here and pretend to be a cat, you've got to be honest, too.

What are you doing also? Yeah, I'll do like that.

We got that. And then sometimes I would smack her tail.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Not hard, though. Whatever.

And then when she comes by, I just do this.

Uh -huh.

When we're down here role -playing, it ends with him pulling a tail. I need him

to learn more about cat energy, and that means it's time to play.

Braylon, playing with Candy, hanging out with her is totally cool, but I would

do that without your hands. Okay.

So I'm going to teach you about the way that we play with cats.

When you start to play with her, don't just give it to her.

Fast, slow, mix it up, up, down.

Allow her to catch it, but don't allow her to keep it. If you're a cat...

You want that, right? You want her to start doing that. You want to pretend

you're a fly or a bird. I present you with your ground and air toy.

Make me proud.

Thank you. You're very welcome.

Look, Braylon utilizing these hands -free play techniques is essential in

getting him to deflate Candy's energy properly and prevent him from getting

attacked. But now, I've got to see what's going on with the home

Show me the major hot spots. I know that. What else we got? Which is also on

that side, too, if you notice. Right, so this chair is toast.

It's done.

You're done.

What else has gone? Okay, so the dining room chair.

Wow. Yeah.

That's all her?

That's all her.

This is one of her other places.

Wow. Yeah.

Okay, so we got that wall. We got the chair. We've got the dining room

furniture. We have one more important one. Okay, let's take a look.

This is something she does whenever she uses the litter.

Every single time.

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

It's like she's almost made another window.

She's getting close. I mean.

Candy has actually dug into the plaster.

It's plaster. It's not like cardboard.

That's one of the most significant examples of this kind of scratching I

I've ever seen. With all of Candy's behaviors when it comes to scratching or

biting or doing anything, she brings it to the nth degree because she's so pent

up. She's actually a fairly normal cat.

Okay. But she's still Candy. She's still an individual.

Cats are energetic balloons.

All day long, that balloon is just growing and growing and waiting for them

wake up and hunt something.

And if there's nothing to hunt when they wake up, that's when you start paying

the price, right? So you have got a ball of energy walking around the house with

no out.

As cat guardians, you have two choices.

You're either putting energy in or taking it out at all times, 24 -7.

I'm going to leave it to you. This is really your homework, your job, is that

you've got to drain that energy out.

So play therapy every night. Play therapy for Braylon is about making sure

when he pulls out this feather toy, it's going to bring that energy up and then

drain it through play.

And then when she's really tired, you can call it a day and feed her dinner.

The next thing is the concept of the no and yes.

You can always say no, as long as there's a yes behind that no.

So I want to have a scratching post right next to this chair. And I don't

to just have one, right? I want to have multiples everywhere that she's

scratched. If you want your child to stop painting on the wall, don't take

paints away from him. Give him an easel. You want your cat to stop scratching

the couch.

You don't just tape up the couch. You get them a scratching post. I really

if you guys dig into this stuff, it might be a long first week, but the

is going to be huge, okay? All right, guys, I'm going to take off, and I will

see you in just a few short weeks, all right? Great.

The homework has to work because I love Candy. I want to keep her, but I can't

continue to be held hostage in this apartment.

It has to work. Jackson is the cat expert.

This family was held hostage by the past violence and the promise of future

violence between two cats. And for the first time in my career, I'm dealing

a family who knew that their cat being unspayed would help cause the problem,

but they were too scared to do it. So the question remains, as I walk in here,

did they help fix the problem by fixing their cat?

Hello. Come on in.

Hey, how are you?

We're just going to cut to the chase right away.

Did your cat get spayed?

Yes. And it went great.

Thank God they got Missy Spade. Now we can get down to the real business here.

Where is Missy right now?

Missy is in my room right now. Let's go and visit her. Okay. I am going straight

to Missy. I want to know how she is, if her behavior has changed any since the

last time I was here. I just need information.

Can I say hi?

Can I say hi? What's under there?

What's under there?

Who's a good girl?

Hello, sweet baby.

Yes. Oh, my gosh, she's so sweet.

We were playing for quite a long time. She was a little suspicious, but she was

just acting like a cat.

Yay.

That's my good girl.

It's going to take a while for all traces of estrogen to be out of her

but I do notice a little bit more of a grounded feeling from her. What I want

do, because then we can start digging into all the specifics, I want to start

going through all of your video homework.

So what we did is put up these shelves so the cats can get away from each other

and have places to go. Wow, guys.

In different areas in the hallway.

Man, I think these guys did a great job with catification.

And cleaned out this hallway. It used to be just dead ends, and now we can get

around both on the floor and up in the world.

Daniela did not make that midnight shift.

Fluffy was actually out all night long.

Good job. You've abandoned all schedule.

Yeah.

That's great. And how do you feel about having Missy in your room?

I just knew at this point that something's got to change, and I just

Really? I have a harder time, I think, with the cat swapping. I don't know. I

guess I'm more comfortable with Missy right here when I'm in my bed watching

And I don't know. I just haven't thought about, okay, let me go switch you with

Fluffy. I love Fluffy.

I love Missy, but Daniella's been better at the cat swapping.

How are you guys together at this point? Are you dealing with all this together

well? Yeah.

Right on. I was very proud of it.

It was really great to see.

I feel like there's no more my cat, your cat, Fluffy versus Missy, me versus

you. It's just kind of been all of us working together to kind of make them

our cats.

Okay, here we go.

There's Fluffy.

You need to keep him inside.

Wow, that's really close to the door.

Is this how close they've been doing it?

Yeah. Wow.

And there's Missy on this side.

What the?

Did you guys start with it further?

Yeah. First day, it was like here, and then I moved it here.

We've got to see what happens next, because if he eats... Missy hasn't been

eating, though.

When I do it, Fluffy will chow down, but Missy hasn't been eating. Well, that's

why. She just watches.

The family put the bowls too close to the door during feeding time. These cats

are on top of each other. Luffy is so food -motivated, he doesn't care.

Missy does.

So the exercise, by and large, hasn't been the rousing success I hoped for

because they missed that really key component.

We have to have those two eating at the same time. It's crucial to the process,

so we've got to fix that.

That said, I want to do the feeding exercise with the addition that we

the distance between the bowls. So the goal here is that if I see the feeding

exercise going well, I'm going to open the door.

Okay. Now it's time for me to present a challenge line for these two cats. We're

going to put up a gate. Now they can see each other, but they can't get to one

another. And we're also putting a blanket over the gate so that we slowly

one cat to the other. And we'll see how that goes.

Okay. She's eating.

Okay.

We're all eating.

Stacy, just go ahead and open the door.

Okay.

I know what Missy can do.

Because I've been a victim of Missy biting me, tearing me up.

So I am very nervous for the interaction to happen.

Now, you can slowly just pick that up so he can see her and she can see him.

There you go. Let this happen.

Let this happen.

Keep presenting it to him. Worst case scenario right now, Missy just charges

that gate, and the two of them just start going at it through the gate. At

point, that's just as bad as if there was no gate at all.

Look at the way she's looking at him.

She's looking at him as if he were a stranger.

He doesn't care, and I really like that a lot.

Come on, buddy.

There's no way he's going to get through there.

You're not getting through there, so don't get stuck.

No, no, no.

You've got to be kidding me.

You've got to be kidding me. Stacy, please grab him.

You've got to be kidding me.

You've got to be kidding me.

And please don't go under the bed, the one place I don't want you. I can't have

these guys.

Go face to face. Yes, because they get under that bed and it's lights out for

everybody.

Hi.

Can we get back to eating, please? I did not expect that.

Go ahead. The hair on her back is standing up. In the past, any time that

saw her, he would run away. But this time he just went right in and I was

I was so confused. I had no idea what to even do.

Let's call it a day on this. Okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Kathy. Listen, the family might not be jumping for joy right now, but I'm okay.

I think we got a lot of information.

I think there are lessons learned from this experience.

There's a lot of optimism to be had right now. Let's look at the good stuff.

Missy being spayed, bringing down those hormonal urges and aggression, and at

the same time, we're seeing that Fluffy's confidence is growing.

Here's my new plan for the feeding exercise.

First thing is we are going to change the location of the feeding.

Instead of having our dividing line being your bedroom, which is kind of

into a hot spot, we've got to stop that. So I want you to change the location of

the gate into that doorway.

So now, back of the house, front of the house, right? And that's our sight

swapping. I do want you to keep that gate up.

for the feeding assignment. I think it's a great tool.

If they can't focus on eating at all, no matter how far back you put them, then

we have to block their sight line with that blanket. But if they can do it,

let's have them do it. Because if I come back here next time and we've got that

division and that program in place and we're not having major fights, obviously

what I want to do is get these guys together.

I feel like if we really stay on top of it with the homework and get them more

used to each other with the feeding exercises, I'm hoping and praying that

somehow when we put them together next time that there will be no fighting.

Thank you. Bye, guys.

See you. Bye. Thank you.

Hi, dude.

Ow! Braylon!

Tending to meet up with April and Brett, Braylon and Candy Cat.

Last time I was here, I was dealing with a very energetic cat and a very

energetic child.

And that combination was a little explosive. Hopefully, there's a little

order in this house. Actually, a lot of order. If these guys haven't done their

homework, the evidence is going to be pretty obvious.

So, how's life here, man?

A lot better.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's what I was hoping for. Braylon, how are you doing, man? Real

quickly, come here.

Present your arms.

Scratches?

Nothing.

Yeah.

Very nice. Hey, man, everything's going according to my plan.

I mean, I'm seeing a smile on April's face.

Brett is happy.

Braylon is not scratched up. And there's a relief that I'm sensing from the

family that's part of the work they've done. But I want to make sure that it's

backed up with homework, so I want to take a look at their video.

Here we go.

Hi, Candy.

Nice going.

What I love looking at video homework is the

abandon with which he plays with Raylan. He's swinging a toy around, and she is

jumping with such incredible enthusiasm.

She's loving playing with Raylan, and he's loving playing with her. That's

I wanted the whole time.

Okay. So when you're saying Braylon's doing absolutely nothing.

No offense, buddy.

Braylon is never doing absolutely nothing.

You saw what Braylon was doing as we were talking, right? The tossing, the

spinning and stuff like that. So I'm trying to get a beat on the energy in

room at that moment.

Was there lots of back and forth going on? Was it a time where, you know, we

talk about those spikes in energy that happen. When everybody comes home.

There you go. We know.

Everybody comes home.

Energy's high. And she's sitting there. She's like that. The whole family had

just come in.

That puts that cat energy at a nine.

All it takes is this and she's going to act out. Now, the thing that we do is

become proactive.

Right. We know that the energy in the house.

Sends her to that place instead of going straight to the computer, maybe.

Straight to her. Get that energy out. Now we're good, you know?

All right, moving on.

Here is one scratcher.

Another scratcher for Candy.

Another scratcher in the closet.

The place is completely terrified.

And Candy has everything she could ask for.

And look who's scratching.

Yeah, that's what we want to see.

We're just not setting Candy up for failure anymore.

She needs to scratch. So instead of just saying no and getting frustrated, there

are beautiful, scratchified yeses in all of the spots that Candy has chosen to

scratch in the past. And now I would feel secure that the inappropriate

aren't going to get scratched.

Right. She has not scratched the walls or the furniture at this point. I feel

better about that.

Good. The other important thing to you is that... Braylon doesn't bleed all the

time. So now, my hope is that your best friend isn't spending half her time

beating you up. Is that fair to say at this point?

That is very true.

Glad to hear it, man.

Look, the family's doing great, but this is all on Candy. I mean, the last time

I was here, she beat me up pretty good. So I just want to see if I can make sure

she's okay.

Candy has been watching me, so I'm going to grab a toy out of here, and...

Go hang with your cat for a minute, okay? All right.

Candy might be cautious. She might be a little scared at first.

But her love of the hunt overrides everything else. She sees a toy, and she

cannot help herself. She's got to play.

That's the kind of spark I love seeing in a cat.

Such a good girl. Use your tunnels. Get away.

That a way. Good girl.

All right, baby. I'm going to get going.

Like I told you, we play with toys. We don't play with hands.

We scratch scratchers. We don't scratch furniture.

And you'll never see me again.

But you're happy about that.

Okay. So, I hope you continue to play with candy every day. That's what your

is. And remember...

You got a really cool cat. She's good, man.

Thank you. Thanks for everything.

My pleasure.

I'm here for you guys if you need me, all right? All right. All right, guys.

Jackson has helped us tremendously. I am extremely thankful.

Now I don't think I have to worry about Candy beating me up anymore.

Candy is a change cat for sure. I don't think she's going to go back to

scratching other things.

I feel like we're going to be one big happy family.

I'm a little bit nervous for the final check -in with Jackson.

We're going to open the door.

They have no good experiences with these cats, so for them, opening the door is

a massive risk.

Oh, God, they're so close.

Now, you talk about heavenly stories. This one is for the ages. This is about

family coming together because of two cats and a very fortuitous first date.

Can't wait to hear this story.

Hey. Hey, Brian. I'm Jackson.

How's it going?

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Hey.

Hi, Jackson. I'm Kathleen.

And I'm Brian. And our story is the kitten trap.

So, tell me. Tell me how this happened.

So I told my daughter that I would get her a kitten, but there were two cats at

the adoption center.

Yeah. I just moved into a new place with my daughter, and we couldn't have more

than one animal. Right. So we have to separate these two. And we brought Ozzy

home, but for days on end, Ozzy was crying.

Callie kept saying, it's because he misses his brother.

And so I called the shelter and they said that his brother had been adopted

days after. I told Callie, I go, well, you know, maybe one day we'll find him

again. You never know.

Years later, Kathleen and I met on a dating site. We just instantly

He asked me to come back over here. And all of a sudden, out of the corner of my

eye, I see this orange and white cat.

And I did a double take.

and thought that he had stolen my cat.

You did not, really? I really thought this. The next morning, he came into my

house and saw Ozzy.

I was awestruck. This cat was identical to my cat.

I said, get the adoption papers out.

And I remember that the adoption place said that he had to have a brother.

Sure enough, they were identical.

Same birthday, everything.

It just all connected instantly.

Now, Brian, how did you wind up clearly with the brother?

Well, my wife at the time was sick, and so she wanted to make my daughter happy

and bring some warmth into the family before she passed away. So she adopts

cat. This had to start playing in somehow, like it was a sign of some

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. My wife definitely led us together.

She wanted us to be a family.

Having twins separated and then brought back together like this, those odds are

astronomical. And whether you believe in miracles or fate, the universe,

coincidence, whatever it is, one thing you can't deny, these cats were the

piece of the puzzle to bring these two humans together.

With our daughters meeting and coming together with the cats, It was really

reassuring and confirming.

And becoming a family of four instead of a family of two.

Complete fate.

Yeah. Like, we're home again. We're all reunited.

I was really happy that Ozzy found Butter and I found Ruby.

We're really happy together, and I think that we're all really glad that we

found each other.

Obviously meant to be.

Meant to be.

Yeah, meant to be is the perfect term for it. Thank you so much for sharing

story with me. Thank you. Pleasure meeting you.

One of the most unbelievable stories I have ever heard.

I mean, they say the truth is stranger than fiction. Well, sometimes it's more

beautiful than any author could ever come up with.

You know, when I left this house and this family, we had cats who were

definitely not best friends. Now, if these guys just embraced the work, maybe

these two cats can be in the same room together.

Find out.

Hi, guys. Hello.

How we doing?

Good. Yeah? We've been really working hard on this. You know what?

Let's get down to it, man. I've got all of the evidence right here.

So, the feeding under my mom's door has been going so well that we are going to

move it.

to the hallway now this is the closest we've gotten them throughout this whole

thing their noses might as well be touching exactly right i was about to

that and they're more into their food than they're into each other i couldn't

ask for anything more they're up against this fence neither cat cares they're

bored with one another and that's what i've been waiting for clearly we're at a

point now especially with me here where we've got to take it to the next level

so what i want to do today is the regular old feeding with the exception

this time around, once they start eating, we're going to open the door.

Uh -huh.

Listen, let's not be scared because the cats will know if you're scared and they

will get scared and things will happen. Okay? All right. If I want these guys to

keep moving forward, I still have to be able to see the progress for myself in

order to feel good about leaving Fluffy.

Right now, we've still got this one big hurdle that we haven't overcome

together. All we're doing is waiting for our girl to eat. Come on, girlfriend.

She is now eating. Let's pull up. There you go.

Danielle, move like normal.

Yep. You're being very sneaky right now. Now, she's not even looking up right

now. How's he doing?

Good. Then I would like you to just open that door.

The family is incredibly nervous, and they have reason to be. They have no

experiences with these cats. So for them, opening the door is a massive

It's a normal moment here.

Go ahead, girlfriend. Keep eating.

Get it on, Missy.

Oh, God,

they're so close.

God, they're so close.

The last time these cats got so close, Stacy wound up in the hospital.

Is she going after Fluffy? Is she going after a safe place? Right now, it all

just makes me nervous.

God.

Missy's goal in life is not to kill Fluffy. That's the first thing I'm

It's still a pretty tense situation, but at least she didn't go for him right

away.

He's a little, like, trying to pretend nothing exists.

Hey. I know you want to come out here.

I know you do.

Come on.

Let's get past your brother.

Now, we've got Missy sort of in a corner, and I want her to just walk back

again, come back towards her food without hassling Fluffy, but it looks

that's going to be a tough call.

Missy. Oh, my God.

Come on.

We'll take that.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Everything's good. Nobody's hurt. Nobody's scratched.

And we can breathe again. Good girl.

This is a huge win.

The whole family gets to see this moment, which is really key because this

what could happen every day.

Congratulations. That's pretty major. Thank you.

So proud of you two. You guys did amazingly well, both of you. And you did

by the way. Everyone got into the act.

When this whole process started, it was... super divided. But now that we've

worked through this, we can actually start to see results.

And that's all because we're really in this together. So it's a huge

accomplishment for us, and I'm really proud. This is a great beginning.

And this whole process has been a number of great beginnings.

Keep it going. It definitely takes a lot of courage to face your old demons.

I mean, Stacey was sent to the hospital by these two cats, and Daniela...

had this constant fear that something terrible was going to happen, yet they

the homework day after day after day. That commitment got us through. As long

the humans keep walking down this road, the cats will follow.