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Zachary sprays Karen all over the house.

Oh, my God. Gross.

Whoa! This is a lot of pee.

We're especially concerned about our daughter, Aurora, because he does it in

room the most.

Zachary's acting very nervous right now.

I know something's going on out there. Oh, I see eyes.

Freddie loves to attack me when I'm in the bathroom, going to the bathroom.

woken up to her biting my face and pulling my hair at the same time. Get

No. If you even touch her, she will draw blood.

That hurts.

She's pretty much a nightmare.

I'm Jackson Galaxy.

Oh, my God, I love my job. The animal behavior that guardians call when

dealing with a difficult cat.

That really ups the stakes a little bit here.

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

Just a cat that needs my help. Thank you.

My

name's

Chad. I'm Rosalyn. And we have a two -year -old daughter named Aurora.

Also, we have a cat named Zachary.

He is so loving and affectionate and sweet and social, but he sprays

urine all over the house.

He likes to spray all over the pillows and the back of the chair. And then he

has decided it would be fun to spray into the closet.

When he sprays, it hits a lot of pillows, bedding, carpet, walls.

Oh my gosh, gross.

He does use Litterbox, but he will still spray while he's in Litterbox.

We're especially concerned about our daughter, Aurora, because he does it in

room the most.

She's two. She's roaming around, putting everything in her mouth and touching

everything. It concerns us for her health and safety.

We just want our home back, our lives back, and we want...

our daughter to be healthy and happy and not have to worry about urine being all

over her room.

I'm meeting up with Rosalyn, Chad, their daughter Aurora, and Zachary, a .k .a.

the pee machine.

Apparently, that boy is leaving his mark all over this house.

Of course, that's why I'm here, right?

Hey. Hi. How are you, Jackson?

Hi, I'm Rosalyn. Hey, I'm Chad. Chad, I'm Jackson. Nice to meet you, man.

Why don't you fill me in? Zachary sprays urine all over the house, specifically

in our daughter's room.

He sprays all over her bed.

Really? The cat's peeing on their daughter's bed. It doesn't get any worse

that. You've hit a nine on the P .O. meter.

Has he always been like that?

Yeah, for the most part, but it's gotten worse more recently.

We just moved into this house last year, and he actually did really well for

about the first eight months. Okay, so you've had him for how long?

We've had him about six years.

Okay, so in that six years, how old is Aurora?

She's two.

When Aurora was born, did he kick it up a notch? He didn't, actually. Okay, so

stress -wise, when she came along, he was okay.

Because usually, kids come along and cats, well, hi.

Who's that? There's our star.

Hi, Zachary.

Come say hi to me. Oh, my God, he's being such a cat. He's like, you come

to me. How about that, big guy?

How about that?

Is this kind of a Zacharias thing to be making the rounds kind of like?

It's very interesting to me because usually the cat that I call them the

cats, right? The mojito cats are the ones who meet you at the door. They're

like, come on in, have a mojito, that kind of thing, right?

He's kind of a mojito cat in that way. He's the one who greets, right?

Definitely. He's coming right up to me, and he wants to be loved and pet and

whatever, walking up to everybody.

Not the one that you would expect who would be doing all of the marking,

I mean, marking is an unconfident expression of territorial horror.

Yeah, it's almost a bipolar kind of thing. It is. I mean, it's actually a

weird dynamic.

Being this present, this mojito, that he's going to come out here and just...

spread himself across the table. So this is normal Zachary behavior.

Right off the bat, he is so friendly, so present. I can't believe that he's the

cat who's peeing all over this house.

First things first, is Zachary neutered? Yeah.

Okay, so we can rule that out. Now, how did you guys wind up with Zachary? I was

working at an animal rescue sanctuary.

He actually got in a lot of fights there.

Interesting. Yeah. He started getting picked on there by some of the other

males. Ah, okay. Now that's important.

We open doors and windows. There are a few neighbors. Yeah, I was about to say.

Did you notice I went... Yeah.

And we have feral cats out there, right?

Feral or neighborhood or belong to anybody, do you know? I've tried to pay

attention to see, you know, if they go into anybody's house, but these cats

seem to go everywhere. They go in everybody's yards and in front of

house. Are they tame?

They tend to run away if we try to get pretty close. So you haven't been able

touch anybody?

No. It didn't take long for me to start putting the puzzle pieces together.

Zachary always peed when he was anxious, but it was never all that much.

They moved here, and boom, it happened. And when did it happen? Around

springtime, when it starts to thaw and cats come out. Let's start looking

around. Show me all the places that Zachary has peed up, which is apparently

lot.

He has peed in the corner of the couch.

This corner here?

It was between both of these.

Which spots Zachary likes to mark gives me important clues to figure out why

this really confident cat feels like he has to mark up the whole territory.

Using my black light, I can find stains that have already even been cleaned up.

He can spray this high.

And that is really, it's like mom, the house is on fire.

This will all help me formulate a plan that will give this family some peace of

mind, hopefully.

You've never seen cats hanging out right here?

No. Something is not right here.

This is one of his favorite places.

He will stand here and spray all over this way. He will hit the bed. He will

the wall.

It will go all on her bedding, her mattress.

It even goes as far as going over and onto the carpet.

That's not cool.

There's two different ways of marking. There's the body marking, the head

marking, the rubbing, the cheek marking, that kind of thing. Very confident,

that's mojito marking right there. Now you've got Napoleon marking, over

-owning, and that's pee.

It's unconfident, it's territorially threatened.

This cat's doing both.

Going with this whole concept of mojito, Zachary, right? So now we're into

Napoleon Zachary, right?

Now he's the over -owner. Look, right?

He needs to be everywhere making sure that everything is cool.

But that's confidence.

This is pretty major. Now, how many times have you done this?

Probably ten.

Ten times.

Yeah, at least.

At least.

It was just right here. It had run down the side there. Let me jump in.

Sorry, guys.

Aurora's head goes up here.

Right, but she never slept in here.

What? What do you mean? Well, because there's always so much pee over here. No

way. You have kept her out of here because of the pee? Yeah.

Wait a second. Your child has never slept in her own bed because of the pee?

This is a 911.

I mean, seriously, this is bad.

She doesn't sleep in there. She's never slept in here.

What? For fear that she's going to be peed on or sleeping in it.

I'm so sorry, because you just assumed the goal is I want my cat to stop

but really your goal is to get your child into her bed.

That would be great. She sleeps in bed with us.

No way.

Now I know what our stakes are. This little girl doesn't have a room right

and that just...

That stinks.

Having Aurora at two years old still sleeping in their bed because Zachary's

peeing in her bed, it can't be normal. And we can't let it continue to be

normal. Obviously, this is a very, very important spot for him.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting this kind of attention.

This isn't just love that I'm getting from him. He has marked me from head to

toe. Cats are covered in scent glands, right?

So when they rub up against you, whether it's their side.

Right here between the eyes, in between all of their pads, their scent glands.

So when they scratch, they're leaving scent. When they butt up against you,

they're leaving scent. That is a confident way of leaving scent.

Not, right? So that's what we're looking at with him. What turns him into

Napoleon? Because the cat I'm meeting right now is just uber mojito. See how

he's picking this spot here?

Look at what our view is, right? I know something's going on out there.

Let me give you some homework. All the fact -gathering is done for now, but I

got a theory, and now we got to test it.

So, my theory is Zachary is just panicked territorially. He feels like

barbarians at the gate, and they're busting through, and he's trying to warn

guys on a daily basis that the world is not a safe place for him.

Now, the homework comes down to you guys proving that theory.

The first step to that is detective work. I need you guys to work the

neighborhood. I need you to figure out...

who those cats belong to if they do also detective wise you can also take the

black light that i'm going to give you and document every spot in the house

he pees i'm going to give you guys a motion activated camera that hooks into

your wi -fi all you got to do is set it up and just monitor it and that way this

time of day you're going to get your evidence and what they're doing and how

they're torturing this guy the second part of the homework is catification I'd

like to get a bed of some sort right on Aurora's bed. Give him that place of

ownership at ground zero. See where he's sitting right now? That's one of his

favorite spots.

Okay, because he's soaking scent in there and he can see out there. Any

that he can put himself, I want his scent strong in there.

Cats need signposts that represent confident ownership of territory.

Scent soakers, litter boxes, food dishes, blankets, beds, scratchers,

All these things where a cat can walk by, smell themselves, and go, I own this

place. If the top part of this house has nothing that says cat, what's he going

to do? He's going to put his mark down when he feels insecure.

I will see you in a few weeks.

All right. Thank you so much. Take care. It was great to meet you. The

pressure's really on the guardians to do their assignments, especially the

detective work outside to find out why Zachary makes his turn from being a

mojito cat to an insecure Napoleon.

Now, if the guardians don't... Gather the clues the way I need them to. The

time I come back here, we're all going to be pissing in the wind.

I'm Sheila. I have a beautiful black cat with a miniature head and big yellow

eyes. She's eight years old. I've had her since she was pretty much born.

I found her about a day old.

And she's been naughty ever since.

Her name is Freddy Krueger.

Freddie loves to attack me when I'm in the bathroom, going to the bathroom,

brushing my teeth. Even sitting in the bathtub, she will come up and give me a

little swash.

I've woken up to her biting my face and pulling my hair at the same time.

If you even touch her, she will draw blood.

Friends come over and I fear for them being attacked.

How many times did she get you in there?

I don't know too many times to count. I've been on very few dates in the past

eight years because of Freddie's personality.

I don't know how much longer I can live like this.

She's pretty much a nightmare.

I'm heading in for my first visit with Sheila and her cat, Freddy Krueger. Yes,

and just like Freddy Krueger, her namesake, she is the master of

causing nightmares all throughout this home and spilling a lot of blood in the

process. So hopefully I can end the bloodshed before I get my blood shed.

Where's Freddy? She's right under here.

Freddy, uh... Hi,

Freddy.

Meeting Freddie the first time, I just get the impression that she's a scared

cat, that she doesn't trust her environment right now because there's a

in it.

Oh, so we have two cats. We have Freddie and... The captain.

The captain. Hey, captain.

Just wondering, did you name Freddie before or after her Freddiness came out

her? I named her before because I found her in the boiler room.

Freddie Krueger's from the boiler room. Uh -huh. And you've had her since she

was what?

Since she was about one day old.

Really? A bottle baby.

The problem here is that Freddie was brought up without her mother, without

litter mates, and with very limited exposure to other humans.

As a result, Freddie was left with no other option than to mirror Sheila.

Captain is like, Freddie, why are you being so chicken?

She attacks mainly people who try to put their hands in her face or they try to

pet her.

Do people just sort of...

They insist on doing that? Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, you want what

can't have.

It's like, please don't touch my cat.

And, you know, they want to touch her. And they think I'm crazy because I tell

them not to.

But I have to do this because, you know, I got to figure out what makes Freddy,

Freddy. Hey, Freddy Krueger.

Sheila's telling me that Freddy has a real aversion to being touched by

strangers. And when I make my own attempt to touch Freddy, she scampers

So it appears to be true. But what Sheila and her friends need to

that it's okay not to want to be touched. It's not terribly abnormal.

Freddie may have some real issues, but this one doesn't make her a nightmare by

any means.

I mean, are you marked up by your cat? I am. I look pretty good right now

because I was gone for a week.

But I will show you. Freddie vacationed and healed up. I sure did. But I will

show you this. This is an illustration.

That my friend made after he met her one day because I do always usually have

marks on me. Wow. And this is what he made after she has killed me. I'm

a good picture painted of who Freddie is, but now I want to see what the

territory has to say to me. I want to see the hot spots where Freddie seems to

act up the most and maybe things will start making sense to me.

Here she throws tantrums. Why? She bites her own feet and screams and hisses on

her own. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's...

Yeah, because she does it every time I have someone over, biting her on the

and screaming and throwing her tantrum. And she also does it if I'm on the phone

or if I'm watching TV.

The fact that there is a situational connection, that every time Freddie

Sheila's undivided attention, she throws this tantrum, and then, of course,

Sheila gives her what she wants, makes this a very obvious thing. Sheila is

creating a conditioned response.

Freddie knows that if she does this action, tantrum or not, she gets this as

result, whatever that payoff is.

So when you're sleeping, what does she do? Show me.

She starts by pressing her face here and licking my nose. It used to be

biting my nose very hard.

Ow!

And you stopped her from doing that? I stopped her from doing that. How did you

do that? Well, I used to just shove her off of me and tell her, no, Freddie.

No, hey, hey, no.

But I don't feel like I can do that to her when she's just licking my nose,

obviously.

Obviously.

There's nothing obvious about that statement at all. But she's kissing my

so I feel bad. Oh, this is going to be difficult. Okay, okay, okay.

What Sheila doesn't realize is that her tolerance of all of Freddie's behaviors

is actually exacerbating the problem.

And then I wanted to show you the other hot spot, if we're doing hot spots.

Let's do it. I sit down, I go to the restroom, and she bites my butt from

side. What do you do when she does this?

I've learned to just go like this and sort of almost play with it. So she gets

me like three times. Sometimes she gets me a little hard. Sheila, seriously?

Now, if Sheila were to just say no, this would probably stop.

But instead, she offers up her foot as an alternate toy.

That's not the way this is going to work.

I want to meet up with Freddie. I want to see how comfortable she is with me

how she acts towards strangers.

Hi, baby love.

Come here, baby.

Come here, baby.

Hi.

Hey, babe.

I can kiss her almost any time of the day with my face.

You know what I mean? Like if I do this.

But I wouldn't dare touch her butt with my hands.

You're telling me that if I put my hands in, she'll scratch and hiss and

whatever. But if I put my face in, she won't. Exactly.

As long as there's no hands involved.

Now, if Sheila is right in saying that Freddie is generally put off by touching

and petting but doesn't mind nuzzling humans, well, that tells me a lot about

Freddie. So I want to try it. But on the other hand, a lot of Sheila's notions

about Freddie have been suspect at best.

Let's just put our face.

Hi, baby.

Let's just put our face down.

Hi, baby.

Oh.

So let's not put our face down. Okay, sorry.

Clearly, she's a little on edge.

Give her some room to breathe a little bit. I feel like I've spent enough time

trapping her in a corner. So in this challenge line, I have learned the hard

way. Face, hands, it doesn't matter.

Freddie is just not comfortable with anybody besides Sheila getting close to

her. Now, first thing that we're going to do.

is to ignore unwanted behaviors.

The thing about bottle babies is that they are the most individual of cats,

right? Because you bring them up just with you. You've got a very specific set

of behaviors that's a product of you guys having your own language together.

So I think that we've got to start with you. And starting with you is rewarding

behavior.

Looking at all these pictures that Sheila's friend has drawn over the years

gives me an idea in order to better convey the homework that Sheila must do

Freddie. We're going to start with this one.

When you sleep.

So you are used to, in the morning, before the sun comes up, having teeth in

your nose, which you said no to. Now it's a tongue up your nose, which is

not fun and not comfortable and very smelly. Well, that's not going to happen

anymore. You're going to completely ignore her, not say her name, not get up

feed her, not do anything.

Don't engage her when she does this routine with you. Here, better example,

right? This, the tantrum.

Kids throw tantrums.

Because they get a desired result.

The day that mom stops rewarding the tantrum, they stop doing it. She's not

hurting herself, but she's causing you to freak out and do something to assuage

her. You're not going to do that anymore. You're going to totally ignore

okay? Number two is play therapy.

For every time that you say no, this is not going to give you payoff, there's

got to be a creative yes. Whether it's a scratching post, game playing time,

feeding, rewarding the silence.

Those kind of things. Okay? Yep. And last assignment is to instill friendly

boundaries. If your friends want to pet a cat, we got Captain right here. He's a

petty cat.

Okay? Thank you so much. My pleasure. My pleasure.

I'll see you in a few weeks, okay? All right, Jackson. All right. Thank you.

Take care. You too. If this homework doesn't work, I'm doomed to be a

for life, and I will never get out of this Momo.

Well. Now I understand why she's called Freddy Krueger, but what Sheila needs to

understand is that it's up to her to end this nightmare.

Zachary's acting very nervous right now.

Oh, God, it smells so bad.

All right, so I'm heading to meet up with Chad and Rosalyn, their two -year

daughter Aurora, and Zachary. Now, last time I was here, Zachary was marking

everywhere, but specifically Aurora's bedroom and the master bedroom as well.

I got no idea what I'm going to find walking into this place.

Hopefully, it's a lot less pee.

Look at what you guys have done, man. Yeah, what do you think? This is

This little piece is really cool.

And it looks like it's already starting to get a workout.

Yes, definitely.

That's really cool.

But what I'm really interested in is whether adding all of these scent

around the house had any effect on Zachary's brain. Let's start looking at

homework. We're putting Zachary's bed on a roller bed.

and I'm not even going to wash it. I want his scent to be fully in there. Did

you observe him using the bed on Aurora's bed?

No, actually.

He has not spent very much time in Aurora's room since we've put his bed in

there. That's really interesting, right?

Because it's almost like putting his scent in there in a strong way lets him

know that I don't have to patrol this hard in here.

Right? I had you guys do a lot of surveillance and detective work. Let's

breaking that down.

with the black light that Jackson gave us, and finding some really disturbing

stuff here.

Whoa!

All over our nightstand in the master bedroom.

That is, that's significant.

This is a lot of pee. What we're seeing on this homework is highly anxious,

really motivated pee.

All right.

Now we get into the heavy -duty stuff. What do we got going on here?

Oh, I see eyes.

Right here.

Bang, we got you, sucker.

There is our first suspect.

He is hanging out right there in front of the kitchen window.

Now we're looking at what? Same view.

No, that's a great one.

Ah, bang.

Suspect number two. Well, now we know for sure there's at least two cats

around this house.

The question is, where are they coming from, and what can we do about it?

You know if anybody has, like, a black cat or a gray cat? I think I know who

cat is.

Really? Is it somebody that lives on the street?

So we know what house these guys live in, right?

What's going on out there?

It's time for me to talk to the neighbors. Chad and Rosalyn have too

invested in this neighborhood to be up in people's faces, and guess what? I

don't. I just want answers.

So I am working with your neighbors way down there. Okay.

And I'm trying to locate two cats.

Okay. Black cat, gray cat.

Oh, they're mine.

And they're causing a big problem. Okay. They just hang out and make themselves

at home. We have a cat inside their house who has completely destroyed the

with pee. Oh. And there is no way for me to help fix the problem

unless I help fix this problem.

Okay. So tell me about your cats. They're indoor -outdoor. So my cats have

ability to go in and out of the garage. I have a heated garage for them. He's

reacting so strongly to these guys.

There's no legal thing that we can't keep the cats outside.

So here in Colorado, an outdoor cat is considered free roaming, which means

can't be picked up by animal control unless they're sick, injured, or have

attacked somebody.

They're allowed to just kind of roam.

I mean, this conversation is frustrating. It's really frustrating. I

you're going to let your cat out here in the middle of the night with all these

coyotes around here? I mean, I don't get it. It has to go out at night. They

have always been outdoor cats.

There's no legal thing that we can't keep the cats outside.

They're allowed to just kind of roam. It has to go out at night. They have

always been outdoor cats.

There's nothing I can hold over anybody's head.

It's absolutely up to the human. If she wants to let her cats roam around

outside in coyote country, it's up to her.

Probably have to do stuff to keep them out of the yard.

The nature of cat diplomacy with neighbors is you shoot for the stars and

settle for what you can get.

Today, I'm not even sure we got off the runway.

She's a very nice person, but I've dealt with enough people that I know that

there's no changing her mind, and it is so frustrating.

This could all be solved if the cats were kept inside, and that ain't gonna

happen.

Let's start with what I discovered at your neighbor's house. I cannot convince

her to keep those cats inside, okay?

Really?

That's disappointing.

It is not okay for these cats to come into your yard and say, yo, litter box,

and create a second home. Not good. So we're going to use deterrents to create

boundary. One of them sprays water, okay? So every time a cat comes from a

certain angle, bang, they just get hit with some water. They're going to define

boundaries around their yard with deterrents, and it's a training tool.

cats will come into this yard three, four, five times. Every time they get

sprayed, they'll stop coming around.

Next thing that we're going to do is complete your catification, okay? All of

the cat stuff is still downstairs for the most part, but it's time to

everybody, right, and start bringing it upstairs.

Your room has got to be catified, okay?

I'd like you to put a litter box in your bedroom, okay?

If the stakes are high enough for you, you'll find a way to make it work.

Finally, it's time to push Zachary's challenge line. Have you ever harness

trained him at all?

No. The first step is just to get him used to it.

You put it on, you give him treats, you take it off.

Within a week, you'll have him trained to the point where you can take him

outside. I want him to be able to take control of his territory.

If you can get him into a harness and take him out to that front yard, he goes

out there, smells what the other cats have turned into a litter box, and he

goes. That's his challenge. Go outside, claim your space in a constructive way

so that you don't have to over -own it, over -claim it inside.

Okay? All right, guys. I'm going to head out.

Hang in there. Be tough.

Okay, thank you. Thank you. Bye, guys.

My hope is that by the time I get back here next time, done.

No more peeing around the house. We have addressed the problem from within and

from without.

The barbarians will not be at the gate anymore, and the fear of the barbarians

will be shot as well. The mojito cat will be able to take control of the

and the Napoleon cat will go into the distance. That's my hope.

So I'm heading in to meet up with Sheila for our last visit with her cat, Freddy

Krueger. Last time I was here, not only did Freddy Krueger show me a little bit

of her nightmare side.

But I got some insight as to why this was all going on.

Now, hopefully, with all the homework I had Sheila do, she's gotten that insight

and she's made some headway into solving this riddle.

I want to get straight into your homework.

Okay. I want to take a look at what's been going on here and see if Freddie's

behavior has changed at all.

Oh, yeah, she ain't messing around.

It is that. Freddie.

Clearly, you started ignoring her completely, which I'm sure was

first. She responded pretty quickly, actually.

Did she really? Yeah. I wish I would have done this a couple years ago.

Yeah, yeah.

But she knows that she has to wait for me to get up now.

Fantastic. Yeah. Tell me what I'm not seeing on here. This morning, for

instance, she was frustrated, came into the kitchen and threw a little tantrum,

a little baby tantrum. What did you do?

I didn't do anything.

Nice. Yeah. You reward the silence.

Yes. Okay, so that's great. The other part of it was the play, right? Yeah. So

wanted to make sure that you're draining energy out of her so she doesn't have

all that built -up energy in the first place.

How's that going?

She won't play with those darn toys.

Look, it's your favorite toy. I haven't seen it in a while.

I feel like when I'm doing this, she's more interested in, oh, what's that?

What are you doing with that part of it? I think that what you want to do is

take it from this motion to that sneaking motion so that it's a toy that

around on the floor.

All cats will play. You just have to find that sweet spot with them. Well,

hello, Captain.

Now, have you had any other people over here?

Yes. Okay, how'd that go?

Well, my neighbor Kelly, she came over, and my friends are, you know, not

supposed to touch her. Well, she touched her anyways.

Okay, Freddy.

She got it. She got it. Not hard, but Freddy gave her a hiss and a little tap

and a little baby bite. But, you know.

I told her not to. Yeah, exactly. They have to realize that it's not that your

cat doesn't like this, right?

Yeah. Some cats just don't like touch stimulation.

I mean, some cats are born with it, some because of their life experience. It's

really hard to say.

But we can work with Freddie to interact with humans more positively. It just

won't be based around petting.

I don't want Freddie more than anything to associate.

strangers coming in with bad things.

So now Freddie's obviously not out here because of that, right? So I want to see

Freddie. I want to see if I can get her to associate me with something positive,

right? So where is she at? In the bedroom.

Let's see if I can make friends.

Okay.

Before I leave, I want to show Sheila that her friends can have positive

interactions with Freddie that are not based around petting.

I mean, Freddie might not like the stimulation from being touched, but like

cats, she's going to be food motivated.

I just want to sit here.

So what I'm going to do is let Captain call the shots.

Captain, come over here, buddy.

Captain can be a bit of our social bridge here. And what I want is for

to take food from me. Now, she's going to watch this.

Right? See how she's watching him, taking her social cues from him. Captain

acting like a social bridge.

Captain takes the food off my finger. Freddie's watching and going, okay, that

finger might be a good thing. This is what that social bridge cat is all

Come here, Freddie.

Come on.

It's okay.

It's all right. What I'm trying to do is change up how she sees hands.

It's not a threatening move.

Oh, my God.

Yeah. See?

My girl, Freddie. Wow.

There's a great little combination here of her seeing Captain and also seeing a

hand in a way she's never seen it before.

Good girl.

Nothing feels better than when all of the lessons that I brought to the table

can be summed up in one moment, and that's Freddy taking food off my finger.

changes who Freddy is perceived to be. It changes how Sheila approaches her

and it should change how Sheila allows her friends to approach her cat as well.

Now we have proven that Freddy isn't, you know, the Freddy Krueger that...

We think she is. The more that Freddie has experiences like the one we just

she's going to start trusting people.

So over time, she's going to learn to accept touch from humans.

Just remember to keep using food as a motivator.

The outlook for her future is great because I'm going to keep working with

I'm going to do everything that I can to make her even better.

I really feel good about where she's gotten to and you as well.

Thank you so much. It's been my pleasure. I really appreciate it,

You know what? The nightmare's over upstairs, but the really important thing

that Freddy Krueger was never a villain to begin with. Freddy Krueger was

frustrated, and Freddy Krueger was having her space invaded by humans, and

the humans know better, and that was the key here.

Once you put the litter box and the tree in your bedroom, is your bedroom good

now?

Today I'm in Grove City, Pennsylvania with Draven and his guardian Jessica.

Together they visit hospitals and spend time with patients.

I'm looking forward to seeing this amazing cat in action.

Hi, my name is Jessica and I have a domestic short -haired black cat named

Draven. When we brought Draven home and people would come visit us in the house

and he would go up and think, you know, they came to see me.

That's just how he is.

I realized very early on that he didn't mind being around strangers, so we would

take him to visit patients in the hospital, and he just kind of got into

rhythm of, hey, we're going to see people, and bring that little bit of

happiness into their room. This is Draven.

Look at him, man. He does make room.

He loves to give foot massages.

Hey, Deb. I'm Jackson.

Good to meet you.

It's amazing to me. He takes no time at all to adjust to anything.

Sometimes if you give him a treat, he'll come up and go get a lick. It's

incredible. We've had a lot of practice, a lot of different situations, so he's

used to a lot of different things.

Draven seems to enjoy doing the therapy work. Nothing really seems to rattle

him. It just makes him feel a little better about having to be in the

Watching Draven at work today shows me that therapy animals are not just... a

luxury. They should be seen as a necessity.

If you have a cat like Draven coming into a place like this and somebody

him, and not only physically is there measurable benefit, but there's also

emotional benefit of being a little bit home. What's your name?

June. June, good to meet you.

Do you have cats or dogs at home? I have a dog.

He's been staying for a while.

You know, one of the things I love about this is every aspect of his body is...

Chill. Very relaxed.

Doing the therapy work with Draven is a great benefit to me because sometimes

when you just have a bad day or you get run down, showing up into strangers'

rooms with a cat. Thank you for coming to see me.

It can make you feel a little better because, you know, they're happy to see

you. Thank you so much for taking me on this ride today with you. I totally get

how happy this makes you.

Absolutely. It's been a pleasure.

Keep doing what you do, and you keep doing what you do, okay?

I'll tell you what, man, this is what it's all about. You know, the fact that

cat like Draven can come in here and make people feel good, this just fills

up with good vibes.

It was a good day. That is a cat from heaven.

I'm out.

He's acting very nervous right now.

I'm back in Colorado for my final visit with Ted and Rosalind. Now, neighborhood

cats have been coming into their yard and tormenting their cat, Zachary, to

point where he's peeing all over the house.

And then my hope walking in today is that the homework I assigned works,

is feeling fully confident, and the marking has stopped. We had a lot going

the last time I was here. Let's start by taking a look at your video homework.

Wait, hold on.

Hi.

Hey -oh, my little boy.

He puts off the most mojito -confident vibe that a cat could put off.

All right, let's get back to this. So you guys are putting out some deterrent.

Glad to see Chad and Rosalyn putting out the deterrent. There's no way of saying

if it was the deterrent, making sure that the cats didn't come around. But

bottom line is that the video shows that no other cats are coming around, which

is great.

Cat tree from downstairs is coming upstairs into the master bedroom.

And here comes Zachary.

Zachary's interested.

What do you think, buddy?

We are moving a litter box in the master bedroom.

So very proud of you. Not thrilled about it, but... I got to give props to

Rosalyn. She did not want to put that litter box in her bedroom, but she did

She's going to thank me later.

Once you put the litter box and the tree in your bedroom, is your bedroom good

now? For the most part, yeah.

Your bedroom's good, right?

We're going to try Zachary's harnesses on him now.

Yay.

Good boy.

Well, so far, so good. I'm happy that Chad and Rosalyn have taken me seriously

in regards to the harness training Zachary. And now he can leave his mark

outside, which is good for his confidence, and keeps the other cats

And I hope that means that the peeing has stopped inside.

Just found some pretty disturbing stuff in Aurora's room.

Yeah. He's on Aurora's bed.

So apparently, after taking a break from peeing in this room for a while,

Zachary has...

darted up again. That's not good news.

I just found some pretty disturbing stuff in Aurora's room.

This is on Aurora's bed.

So apparently after taking a break from peeing in this room for a while, Zachary

has darted up again.

Just came in while I was brushing my teeth.

Handed it on the counter right here and sprayed.

Man, Aurora's room and other places around the house are just hit like

no tomorrow. I mean, obviously, Zachary felt really threatened. We've got to get

to the bottom of this.

What could have been going on that could have set him off? The day before that.

We had been in the storage area and were pulling out old boxes and bins.

Okay. And the last time that it was out was in our house in Florida, and we had

foster cats at the time. Oh, God.

He had been doing pretty well since he left up until that point. Yeah.

So that could have been a trigger. We have now put... deterrents outside, he's

going outside, all this stuff we can totally zero in on. This is why we do

work. At the end of this, the three of us sit down and we say, this makes

this makes sense, but does it make sense?

Is it a rational response to stimuli?

No. We know Zachary has peed multiple places and multiple times since my last

time here. We did everything that we could to try to solve the problem, and

the end of all that, he still needs a little bit of help. I think I've had a

realization recently that

Being at the sanctuary and being around the other cats that bullied him so much,

it's sort of like PTSD that he has from that. And, you know, sometimes people

need meds and sometimes animals need meds too.

Zachary is post -traumatic. He is suffering from PTSD.

He had a really bad start to his life, which included being completely

terrorized by many other cats.

Now he's perceiving that that's happening again.

alarm system is completely out of whack.

In his mind, the world is still on fire.

The only solution in my book is that we put him on a short course of meds. Just

for long enough to decrease his anxiety to the point that he can see the world

is safe.

And then hopefully, we won't need the meds anymore.

It would be really easy for you to take the P at face value and go, we've gotten

nowhere. And I hope you know that.

You've gotten really, really far. I feel like there's been an amazing amount of

progress in this home. And if you had to look at one huge piece of progress,

it's in the guardian.

These guys know their cat so much better now than they did before.

I have so much faith in Chad and Rosalyn, and I have faith in Zachary.

going to keep working, and after a couple weeks, we're going to check back

see where he's at.

Okay. We've really gotten to know him a whole lot better, and now we can get him

feeling better.

Yeah. You should get it. All right.

Take care, guys.

Living with cat pee in a home, to the degree of this house, especially with a

young child whose room is being targeted, it's really stressful.

These guys came through in an amazing way, and we know this cat better than we

ever did, and now we can make the world better for him. That's the important

thing.