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what's up team cat mojo it is your cat daddy jackson galaxy so obviously a lot of questions
get asked of me i like answering whenever i can sometimes it comes down to technique sometimes
it comes down to knowing cats sometimes it comes down to a little bit of that and then a little
bit of human diplomacy why am i setting all this up because you and i are going to argentina climb
aboard here we go heading off to argentina so that we can meet up with sophia and her cat kimmy oh i
see them let's go hi jackson i'm sophia and this is kimi she's 16 years old we've been having some
troubles so there's a cat that comes to my house every single day and she doesn't like it at all
she always attacks him and she doesn't go out as much because the cat is out there and she's
kind of stressed out and i wanted to know if there's something i could do or that i should do
to stop the fighting or the attacks because it's more it's my cat attacking the other one the other
one just he doesn't fight back he just stays there please help i don't know what to do thank you for
emergency now bye maybe now what i was saying at the beginning makes a little more sense to you
guys what sofia is dealing with and to an extent what kimmy is dealing with is an interloper what
does interloper mean i wonder [Music] definition over the course of my career i've had to be
the ambassador from one cat home to another cat home in order to resolve these problems
and i'll give you sophia a couple of different things that you can do
just for the sake of kimmy and kimmy sanity but at the same time we have to deal with who is this cat
let's first start dealing with how to make kimmy a little more sane now the first thing that i'm
hearing from you is that you know kimmy usually does go outside also now that's a problem because
we can try to control what goes on around your home we can't control anything the second that
kimmy steps out of your home for the sake of her sanity and let's face it her health i would say
keep her in why do i say health because it is a known fact that cats who go indoor outdoor at will
then their life is shorter whether you know there's people and cars and predators and cat
fights that can lead to disease all kinds of things so that said if kimmy is not against it
if she's not like sitting there like here are my list of demands i go outside you know and she's
gonna make your life miserable if she doesn't for right now let's just pretend that kimmy is cool
she's cool kimmy kimmy is also 16 years old so the amount that she can fight off predators
or infection or stress there's a ton of reasons sofia to keep her in anyway so like i said let's
say kimmy's cool kimmy's cool kimmy she's like you know what you're right indoors is fine with me
great let's move on to our next uh idea that i can give you now we have to deal with the fact
that no matter how friendly this cat is and she looks really friendly let's take another look at
her oh she's really friendly looking and look at and when she looks in the window ah i mean come on
that's that's adorable i know as innocuous as her presence might be and how friendly she might be
you have to think about it in terms of how kimmy perceives it kimmy perceives it as batten down
the hatches the territory is on fire think about you know you look out your window and there's a
burglar out there they're a nice looking burglar and they smile at you and everything but they're
still trying to jimmy the window you know and that's how kimmy perceives this really adorable
cat now she's not allowed to explore her world anymore because somebody else took it there is no
greater perceived threat to a cat in a home than another cat outside the home period if she's not
spayed then she's putting off hormones all over the place that again threaten kimmy even if kimmy
is spayed then she still smells these things and that smell of of hormone in the air equals threat
so all of this information i'm giving you points to one thing we gotta keep our well-meaning
cat burglar out and i know that's harsh but it's really the only way to restore kimmy's
sense of ownership and her and get her stress level manageable around this whole thing so how
do we do that a couple of things that i would have to suggest to you number one if you're feeding our
little cat burglar then stop i'm sorry to say just stop it's okay if you want to take a dish of food
and bring it well outside the boundaries of your yard outside of your gate that's fine do that
the second thing is a deterrent and i don't want to sound mean at all having been down this road
way too many times we have to let our tordy know that the grass is greener someplace else
so the way we do that is say the grass is definitely not green here you know i've been
debating this because the thing is that i'm going to recommend products that might not necessarily
be available in argentina but i'm just hoping that this is the case the ones that i've found that
have worked the best they're hose attachments you just basically attach it to your hose it has a bit
of an electric eye to it so as soon as um a cat or any other being including humans watch out cross
in front of it they get wet and that's it you know and and it's a training tool it's not something
that you have to keep up forever once a cat tries to come into your yard three four or five times
and every time they get wet they're going to be like yeah i'm i'm not doing this anymore uh as
long as you know the pathway that torti is getting into your yard and it looks like from this picture
that it seems like she's coming in the gate and if that's the case you just point this thing at
the gate all done okay and i like i said i know it seems mean but you gotta look at the greater good
here and the greater good is kimmy because kimmy was here first right right last thing we were
talking about feeding but what about affection clearly she's friendly and she could be looking
through your window not because you give her food but because you give her some sophia cat love and
that also has to stop you have to give her no reason to come into the yard no affection
no food and an aversive all these three things together is jackson being a very mean person no
i'm not because tordy cat burglar will find another place to go that's not your yard
who is the tortie we know that this torti is tame b and we know that because she comes into
the yard she has no fear of the windows she has no fear of you or of kimmy so she's been acclimated
to humans she's been acclimated to other cats and to homes so the the chance that she's feral
is pretty low if torti happens to be feral then what do we do it is the magical three letters t
and r these magic letters are how we take care of our community cat friends we trap them
we get them neutered and we release them back out into the world because we know that that's where
they live they're not friends of humans or they don't think they're friends of humans and uh they
have their own life out there and the most we can do is stop them from breathing and stop them from
releasing those hormones all over the place so that's th that's what we do with our torti if she
is feral if she's not and like i suspect she is tame then now we're into cat diplomacy now we have
to go door to door around your neighborhood and figure out where she belongs uh who's home it is
and then we have to start having a conversation with those neighbors and i know that feels
uncomfortable but let me just give you the perspective of somebody who's done this a lot for
other neighbors who are too scared of doing it you're doing it from the perspective
of my cat's safety and your cat's safety that your cat is coming to this yard and my cat is trying to
beat her up and i want to avoid vet bills and infections and disease don't forget that there
there are diseases that are passed from cat to cat only in the case of deep bite wounds it'll
wind up being like a blood and saliva transfer so there's a lot to be worried about and the and
then you can start getting into negotiations let's say your neighbor is like oh right sophia no my
cat likes going out she's gone out all this time and and i'm not changing her life around just to
make you happy okay well now we've got a little bit of a problem here you know uh so then we just
change our tactic to is there any way that we can have shifts where tordy goes out in the morning
and you keep her in in the afternoon in the evening so that kimmy can go out that kind of
thing you have to try to negotiate because really there is no other way to do this diplomacy is is
what's called for the one thing i can tell you not to do sophia is to go to your neighbors in a huff
and say i can't believe you let your cat roam the streets i i can't believe you you know you have no
regard for my yard for my plants for my cat for me for my house your cat pees and poops in my garden
you know all that's gonna do because just think about it if it was kimmy and your neighbor came
and you know all angry and huffy to your house about kimmy you'd get defensive because she's
your baby right and just remember as long as our torti is not feral she's somebody's baby
oh well that brings us to point number three here she's feral okay we know what to do she
is quote unquote owned we know what to do what if she is spayed she's social and she's nobody's cat
in that case then kimmy i would say and this is me knowing buenos aires i've been down there i
i've talked to folks in the rescue community down there and and you guys have a really strong animal
welfare presence in buenos aires use it get her and get her adopted either you foster her uh where
she would be in a separate room from kimmy i know that sounds counterintuitive but it's temporary
and we find her a home and that is the last way to get her out of the yard is to get her into a
loving home the last thing sophia is that if we want to keep kimmy sane in the short term while
we deal with these solutions the best thing that we can do is block off the sight lines so in this
picture right here where our cute torti is looking through the window and you can see kimmy's like
you know block that window off whatever you got to use a piece of cardboard or whatever so that when
that cat gets looking through the window she's not looking directly at kimmy kimmy doesn't have
a direct eye line out that window that's just the the definition of a band-aid that we put in
place just for now just so that we can um get the problem solved oh and by the way lest i uh exit
this video without taking notice of the fact that as soon as you introduce kimmy that's a per that
let's let's just listen once again hi jackson i'm sophia and this is kimi she's 16 years old nothing
wrong with hearing a nice little pur coming out of a 16 year old happy and healthy right okay so
let's keep her happy and healthy uh hopefully this helps you sophia i i do think that a combination
of these approaches are going to work obviously i'm casting a wide net here because i don't know
kimmy very well and i know even less uh about our torti friend because you might not know anything
about her so let's find out who she is and then hopefully these tools will help you approach
the solution and the solution is humane on both sides it's taking care of both cats but but just
reminding our little torti that this place belongs to somebody else and not the place that you want
to be anyway let it let me know how it goes for you guys i love hearing follow-ups and speaking
of which i would love to hear from you guys if you've got a topic that you'd like me to address
that's what the comments are for just ask me questions if you want even a better guarantee that
i'm gonna answer your question do what sophia did film yourself asking the question show me your cat
show me what's going on and then send it right here and like i said better chance
that i'm gonna answer it assuming i have an answer which most of the time at least i have
a quasi-answer so there you have it until next time you guys don't forget to subscribe
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