Live from the cat cave in downtown God
knows where next to the washer and the dryer,
it's Cat Mojo with Jackson Galaxy.
Welcome, welcome to Cat Mojo.
I'm Jackson Galaxy live from the cat cave.
It is actually looking more like a cave these days, isn't it?
There's all kinds of fun stuff here.
I wanted to point this out.
Diane Dial in Florida, thank you, Diane,
for sending this picture, this painting,
of my lovely cat Caroline.
Don't you see the resemblance, Caroline?
It will become a permanent fixture in the cat cave.
Let's talk about Cat Mojo 101.
What is cat mojo?
We've talked about this before, but let's bring up
that little dictionary looking thing.
It says cat mojo, what motivates all cats.
It's very simple.
The fact is that it wasn't until about 120 years ago
that we permanently brought cats into our houses.
And that means that they live a very pure existence.
They still have it hardwired in their brain to hunt.
And that is the first thing about cat mojo,
hunt, catch, kill, eat.
What's the second thing that's so important about cat mojo?
What motivates them?
Well, with the hunting, and the catching, and the killing,
and the eating comes the owning, right?
It's all about ownership.
Cats need to own their territory.
If they don't own their territory,
bad things will happen to them or to you.
So first we have the confident owner
of territory, the one who walks in chest
held high, tail in that backwards question
mark, everything relaxed, comes up to you,
gives you a little head butt, weaving
in and out of your legs, blinky eyes at you,
that kind of thing, very confident.
Now, who is that cat?
If they were a person, you would come in
at a party, a cocktail party, knocking at the door.
They open the door with a tray of mojitos.
And would you like one of these mojitos?
Cucumber, a little bit of cucumber in here,
I thought you'd like that very much.
Welcome to my house.
Don't you love it very much?
Come on.
I'll give you a tour.
Mojito cat, that's who mojito cat is.
Number two, Napoleon cat, aka the over-owner,
who is that cat?
The chest out, a little bit of the ears forward glaring
at you a little bit, eyes zeroing
in on you just a little, going down
in that offensive, aggressive posture,
perhaps laying down across the doorway of the house
to make sure you've got to step over
that line, peeing on things.
Yes, peeing, because they don't trust
their ownership of the territory.
All whether they're people or animals who
don't trust their territory over-own, right?
Hence Napoleon, or sort of a gang mentality.
You see the writing on the wall?
I own this.
Why does that come out like that?
Why you puff up like that?
You do that, man, because you are not confident
that you own the joint.
So you over-own.
That is Napoleon Cat.
Number three, that would be the wallflower.
In cat world, the wallflower literally hugs the wall.
In the meantime, the over-owner laying
across the doorway, the mojito cat just walking around,
hey, how you doing?
Then you've got The Wallflower hanging back against the wall,
never walking across the middle of the floor.
That would never happen.
In the meantime, they are going, I don't own this.
You, you, you're the owner?
Fine, fine, I'm not looking at you.
I'm not looking.
I'm just going to the litter box over there.
I'm just leaving, goodbye.
That's the wallflower.
Now, I want all cats to be the mojito cat.
That's what I strive for.
If they are the over-owner, if they are the wallflower,
we got problems.
Cat Mojo 101, your homework assignment
is take a look at your cat.
Watch them walk into a room.
Watch them interact with other cats and other humans.
And figure out who they are, who they resemble.
If they're a wallflower, we've got
to bring them out a little bit.
If they're an over-owner, we've got
to bring them back a little bit.
Why?
Because we want everyone to be the mojito cat.
That is the quest, the quest for the mojito cat.
That's what we're getting at here.
But figure out who your cat is.
Watch him walk around the joint, because that's the thing.
Do they display confident ownership of territory?
Are you encouraging your cat to hunt, catch, kill,
and eat through play every single day?
Are you feeling them a bio-appropriate diet?
Because that will also feed in- ha ha
no pun intended-- to that healthy lifestyle of every cat.
That's what you want to be looking at.
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I'll answer your questions, and we're
going to talk more about declawing.
So stay tuned for more information.
But, man, get that on your calendar and do it now.
Hey, I hope that helped.
I hope you get the concept of cat mojo
even more so than before.
Take a look at your cats.
Remember every cat is an individual, just like people
and snowflakes, except there is a place where we all start.
And that's an important thing to figure out, OK?
Until next we meet, folks, all light, all love, all mojo.
Love you.
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