(scratching) - Come here, dude!
Charles, no, don't get her!
Please, God, just get along today
before the Cat Man comes!
(cat meowing) (spring bounces)
Okay, today a is very exciting day
because I get to meet my personal cat hero,
Jackson Galaxy.
And I'm like, straight up nervous,
like chills-level,
I don't know if you can see that,
like chills-level excited about this.
Just basically everything I've learned about
being a, I hope, semi-decent cat parent,
is from My Cat From Hell, Jackson Galaxy's show.
OK, here's my number one question.
I work from home and when I'm home, Charles is destructive.
He wants to like scratch up the paper towels,
he'll knock stuff off the counter,
he'll do anything to get my attention.
But when I'm not home, he doesn't do anything.
I come home and he's asleep.
And I'm like, "If you're gonna knock over paper towels,
"can you do it while I'm trying not to record a video?"
See?
Oh, watch out for that.
It's really good, though.
I'm worried he's gonna tell me I spoil Charles
because that's what Ella says.
I'm just treating him the way he deserves to be treated.
(kissing)
I think he can tell I'm trying too hard.
Somebody just painted these.
These are my absolute favorites.
Oh my God.
Charles, do you know you're about to meet a celebrity?
Do I?
Oh, there's even art of Charles on the fridge.
I forgot that one.
Maybe I am a little obsessed with my cats.
(doorbell rings)
I think they're here!
I'm like so excited!
(exhales loudly)
You're a cool guy.
Hi!
- Hello!
- Oh my god! Oh my god!
- I'm good, how're you doing?
- I'm good.
Oh my God, this is so exciting for me!
- Wow, this is exciting for me too!
This is pretty exciting.
Look at you!
- This is Charles.
- What's up, Charles?
- He's very friendly, he's super social.
But it's not just Charles, actually.
- You've got two.
- We've got two.
- What's up, Lady?
- That's Lady.
- Hi, honey!
- Hi.
- What's up, baby doll?
- She's an exhibitionist.
- Look at this, right on cue.
- Should I call you Mr. Galaxy?
- Yeah. No.
(Hannah laughs)
- We're thinking about cutting ourselves off at three cats.
- Here?
- Yeah.
(Jackson scoffs)
- Easily you could have double that.
(angelic music)
- This is Charles when we first got him.
- [Jackson] Oh my God!
- [Hannah] I know.
- How old is he now?
- He's two--he's almost two.
- That was just two years ago?
- Yeah.
- I work from home, so I spend
a lot, a lot of time with them.
Ella was the one who suggested,
like well you know, cats do do better in pairs,
we should just get another cat.
And that's where we decided to get an older cat.
Lady's actually seven years old.
- Wow.
- Yeah, she's seven years old.
Should I hold her while I talk about her?
She actually had babies that were like,
"Wow, award-winning kitties!"
- I have a house full of cats and
on a good day, they tolerate each other.
On a bad day they don't.
And nobody is like, "Oh you're my best friend."
Nobody.
- Well that kind of brings me to like,
what I seek your expertise in, Mr. Galaxy.
- I just wanted to have a little special effect, "Ding!"
- Oh, we can do that.
- Okay, here we go.
Ding! (bell dings)
- Charles and Lady confuse the hell out of me.
They'll either be licking each other from head to toe
in a way that makes you feel like
you shouldn't even be watching.
They'll be cuddling, kissing, spooning,
but then sometimes, he just goes after her.
And she is clearly giving like,
"I don't wanna play right now.
"I don't wanna play right now, Charles."
She'll go into the screechy kitty mode.
- And does he hurt her?
- No, he doesn't hurt her.
Well sometimes she'll get a little scrape on her neck.
- Because you just said it started with,
"She doesn't want to play, she doesn't want to play."
So he wants to play.
Well he's playing, and she doesn't want to play.
You've already identified the dialogue.
If a cat is just geared up to play,
especially if they have that sort of
kitten-y, Denis the Menace thing going on--
- Yeah, he's not two, he's like a year and a half.
He'll be two in February.
- So he's still kind of verging on teenager-hood.
(Hannah groans)
We all know.
- [Jackson] Does he do this all the time?
Is he like a monkey bar cat?
- [Hannah] What are you doing to him?
- See, no but here, this is what I'm saying.
Actually, this is perfect.
Taylor, is it? - Well...
(laughing)
- From this state here,
if Taylor just doesn't do much of anything
like Lady would,
he's gonna get more and more and more--
- Like, into it.
- Stimulated.
Now he'll go to her and give her a hard time.
- I'm like, "Oh he wants to play."
So I'll spend all this time playing with him
and then just boom, go after her,
straight up pounce on her back.
- No offense, but that means she's a better toy than you.
- She is.
Dammit.
- She presents what is irresistible to a cat,
which is prey, you know what I mean?
She does that back-up thing.
She's like, "Don't hurt me, don't hurt me,"
and then it'll almost encourage him to do more.
Number one,
you would wanna step up the play a little bit.
- Will he ever calm down?
- Yes.
- Oh God, I hope so,
because I love Charles but,
it's not like 15 minutes of play a day,
it's like an hour.
- Which actually makes perfect sense
when you think about it--
- Charles! Sorry.
Okay but sorry, can we pick up from spirits?
(dishes clank)
(laughing)
- Do you ever try to walk him?
- Well...
I mean I can show you what happens.
I have a harness for him.
So he loves the harness, he gets super excited,
he asks to go on a walk,
and we get outside.
Oh wow, he's being really good.
Normally he just stands there.
- This is great.
See now this, what he's doing right now,
I guarantee you
that by the time we get back into your house,
how long he's out here,
he will not be as monkey bars.
It's like cat TV when they look out the window
and they just zone.
And by the way, just looking at his body language right now,
he is 1000% comfortable out here.
That's half the battle.
You got him on a harness, you got him used to the leash.
There must be cats in there,
or ghosts.
(laughing)
- Okay but sorry, can we pick up from spirits?
(dishes clank)
Charles, look!
- And then he's in, right?
So then he's in.
So everyday...
And now he gets this because he was such a good boy.
I mean this is how you're going to solve your problem.
Boom.
- This is everything I've ever wanted and more.
- If this was only my show right now,
how happy we would all be.
We're like, "Oh my god the cat freaking did something."
You know what I mean?
Because when you bring an entire film crew
into someone's house, cats, they're gone.
Over 10 seasons
and let's say 120 or 30 different homes,
10% tops of the cats in the homes
made themselves available on the first day.
Now, everyday you get up, you do your own thing, right?
But make this a part of your routine
and make it before feeding
because he'll be motivated.
Now listen, he's not yet two years old,
he's gonna be like this for a little bit.
You got another year of this before he hits a down slope
and then you're gonna miss it.
- Then you're gonna be like, - Then he's gonna be
like Lady? - "My boy's growing up."
Well she's not gonna miss shit.
(laughing)
She's gonna be totally happy about the situation.
- Going outside to all the sights and sounds of the world
for five minutes is enough?
That's so possible.
- It's a little wishful. - That's so possible.
- It's a little wishful?
- Five minutes? No. - 10?
Oh wait look, look, look!
So that's what he does
cause he wants the warm spot to sleep.
At least he left her alone.
He didn't chase her out of there.
- Well no, because again, you've taken just the edge off
a little bit, you know what I mean?
You put him on your shoulder
to let him know it's feeding time?
You know you don't do that.
- No I don't.
- You do that because you love it.
- I do that because I love it,
but also because when I'm cooking I don't put him up here.
So that's me trying to teach him,
"Hey, if you're up there, you're gonna get food
"but if you're not up there..."
- Does that work?
- We'll see in two years.
- You can't feed a better food than this.
- And they come like this, see?
Just totally frozen.
- Just like that.
I'm very, uber happy and proud of you.
No I'm serious, Hannah.
(Hannah crying)
- That's all I've ever wanted!
- My little cat protege, I mean honestly.
Look at you:
Cat-ified to the nines,
feeding raw food.
I mean, honestly.
You took him for a damn walk.
- This is the best day of my life.
I will say Ella took him for a walk on Sunday.
- That's amazing!
- Yeah, we share a responsibility.
- By putting them on the same schedule,
by having them energetically
- peak and valley at the same time,
their relationship will be better.
- Wow. Okay.
I got some notes.
- [Jackson] That's right!
- Oh, this has been so amazing!
- They were so excited when I got here,
now they're like, "Shit."
- Jackson, thank you so much for being here.
Guys, thank you so much for watching.
If you wanna find out more wonderful
Jackson Galaxy tips and tricks,
you can check him out at Youtube at JacksonGalaxy
or on Instagram at TheCatDaddy.
And you're going on tour?
- I'm going on tour.
We start here in L.A. on November 4th.
Wanna come?
- Yeah.
- Right on.
If you go to my website, jacksongalaxy.com,
you'll find the dates
but it is more than you would think it is.
It's gonna be surprising.
- I cannot wait.
- Guys, if you wanna check--
- Puppets.
- Puppets?!
If you guys want to check out more about Jackson's tour,
go ahead and check out the link below.
And okay, guys, fine, you'll be free.
You can be free.
- Be free! - Be free!