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Unknown And what is up, Cat Mojo, tears your cat,
daddy Jackson Galaxy. I just want to give a big thank you to everybody
who's been watching the videos lately, coming on to these little live chats that we do during
the premieres. 00:00:15:13 - 00:00:29:23
Unknown Just showing your cat colors lately because
it's just fun. And at this time, and place in this world
having fun and talking about our cats, it just doesn't get any better than that, right? Let's get on with it today. 00:00:30:07 - 00:00:42:21
Unknown We are going to be talking as I wag my finger
at you. Why am I wagging my finger at you? Here I am wagging my finger at you, because
today we going to talk about the top mistakes that you can make with your cat. 00:00:43:00 - 00:01:02:13
Unknown Like the biggest like, Oh, did you really? Or did you? Not really. We're all students of this thing we call cat. So with that in mind, if you are guilty of
one or ten of these things, then you know, we forgive and forget and learn. 00:01:02:16 - 00:01:17:01
Unknown There's not even that we don't have the OK
anyway. All right. Moving on. Here we go. Number one. OK, so the number one mistake that you can
make when it comes to your cats, and I'm going to make this number one because it actually
informs a lot of the other ones I'm going to talk about. 00:01:17:06 - 00:01:41:19
Unknown And that is not respecting who your cat is
and what I call that is looking at cats through dog colored glasses. Cats are not dogs. And I know that sounds like I'm oversimplifying,
but it really is that big that if you think about the dog timeline, how dogs have co-evolved
with us over over 10,000 years, you know 00:01:41:19 - 00:01:57:11
Unknown , we pull the wolf out of the wild and start
breeding based on doing jobs for me and being more human motivated and and wanting to please
in over all this time and all of the breeding that we've done. 00:01:58:04 - 00:02:15:13
Unknown Dog is now man's best friend. Right? That's because one of their prime motivators
is approval. What do I get with human? You know, anybody who lives with cats knows
that's not the story of cats, you know? I mean, the timeline is very much more. 00:02:15:19 - 00:02:34:05
Unknown It was a mutually beneficial relationship. We were starting to gather food and not just
hunt it, but gather it and store it. And the rats and the mice were like, Hey,
it's it's a buffet. And the cats come along and they're like,
Hey, it's a rat and mouse buffet. 00:02:34:06 - 00:02:48:21
Unknown And we're like, Well, cool, we're not going
to die of being poisoned by rat and mouse poop. And because of that, we're like, you can stick
around. And the food supply was there. They stuck around and then we took a trip
together over 10,000 years. 00:02:49:02 - 00:03:03:09
Unknown And if you think about it, it's not really,
except for the past blip in that timeline that they now live in our homes with us more
and more now not even going outside there, they live here. And that is a new relationship, actually. 00:03:03:12 - 00:03:23:06
Unknown So the next time you think to yourself, why
doesn't my cat fill in the blanks? Want to, you know, be with me all the time,
want to do things for me, want to do anything for me? And then we think less of them because they're
not achieving the the hallmarks of relationship laid out when it comes to 00:03:23:06 - 00:03:43:18
Unknown dog human. Check yourself. Remember, that's the first big mistake you
can make when it comes to cats. Litter box mistakes, scented litter like heavily
scented litter offending cats knows for sure, but then there's litter boxes that you throw
in a corner or behind the washing machine because you don't want to look at it. 00:03:43:23 - 00:03:56:18
Unknown Well, now you put it in a place that not only
is inconvenient for the cats, but actually might be scary. Hello. Washing machine under the car, or because
there's other cats or dogs or kids coming back and forth and they get trapped in the
box. 00:03:57:04 - 00:04:11:15
Unknown So where we place these boxes can be a mistake. If we don't remember that they are doing us
a favor by going in these boxes day after day after day, it's not in their DNA to go
in the same spot every day. 00:04:11:23 - 00:04:30:00
Unknown But they do that litters that are pointy. So when they step on it, it could hurt a cat's
paws. The mistake of not having enough litter boxes
in your house and you've heard me talk about the Formula one cat, two litter boxes, two
cats, three litter box and so on, so forth. 00:04:30:23 - 00:04:43:23
Unknown We're not just talking about not having enough
litter boxes, but cleaning your litter box. I mean, I have seen some really bad things
in all my years of working with cats, and a lot of it is like, Well, I'll scoop in a
few days. 00:04:44:03 - 00:04:56:23
Unknown How about we make it a clean place where they
don't have to like, walk over a little, you know, landmines every time they want to eliminate? That would be great. And the final thing is hiding your boxes is
furniture. 00:04:57:07 - 00:05:10:03
Unknown It's asking for trouble, especially in a home
where it's not just you and your cat. If you've got other inhabitants, whether they
be other cats, dogs, kids, whatever. There's always a chance that your cat is going
to be in that box. 00:05:10:03 - 00:05:22:14
Unknown They're going to try to come out and someone's
going to surprise them and goodbye litter box. And then you've got a real problem on your
hand and you just got to own up to your mistakes, so you better to do it proactively. 00:05:22:20 - 00:05:33:12
Unknown Oh wow, I was going to make a mistake. I'm not going to make a mistake. Good. You didn't make the mistake. Let's get on to more mistakes that you make. All right. Our next mistake is not cat proofing your
house. 00:05:33:16 - 00:05:50:20
Unknown Having a cat in your house is like having
a toddler that could reach the ceiling. You know, whether it's access to cleaning
supplies, whether it's access to things that are in your medicine cabinet. If you have one of those chairs that leans
back a lazy boy or something and cats can get under their eye. 00:05:51:02 - 00:06:09:05
Unknown The list goes on and on, and luckily I made
a list look up there if you want to know how to cat proof your house. Now, speaking of cat proofing your house,
another mistake that you can make is not checking out whether or not the plants that are in
your house are toxic to cats because there is 00:06:09:05 - 00:06:25:06
Unknown an extensive list of plants and flowers and
shrubs that are really toxic not just to cats, but to other animals as well. You know, if if your cat takes a bite of a
lily, it could be death. So it's one of those things that you like. 00:06:25:06 - 00:06:43:15
Unknown I said, Experience, do it first. Don't make the mistake. So now for this next mistake that you can
make for your cat, I want to veer off into kittens for a second and make this kind of
kittens specific, never play with your hands. 00:06:43:23 - 00:06:56:04
Unknown And as cute as it might be to watch your little
eight week old sort of nursing on your finger, your little one is going to be a big one and
no time at all, and it's going to hurt like hell. 00:06:57:04 - 00:07:15:18
Unknown The second thing is a mistake would be not
taking every opportunity when your cat's a kitten to socialize them, to socialize them,
basically the every type of human you can get around them, from men to women, from kids
to teens, stuff like trimming nails. 00:07:15:18 - 00:07:31:16
Unknown I mean, they're going to make a whole lot
of noise. But what you'll teach them is after your tip,
tip comes tree, the tree, the tree, the tree and love, love, love, love. The same thing goes with getting your kittens
used to being in a carrier. 00:07:31:23 - 00:07:45:08
Unknown You can always get your grown cats used to
carriers as well again. VIDEO and in the description. But it's so much easier when they're kittens. And not only can you get them used to it,
you can get them used to thinking of their carrier as a safe place. 00:07:45:22 - 00:08:01:17
Unknown That means you're actually going to take your
cat to the vet. Anything that you can do that will let them
make positive associations for the rest of their lives with humans is such a big opportunity,
and missing that opportunity is a big mistake. 00:08:02:02 - 00:08:16:08
Unknown The next mistake is not taking your cat to
the vet. Regularly getting your cats into the carrier
and getting them to the vet seems to be such a traumatic thing that out of love, sometimes
we just avoid it. 00:08:16:15 - 00:08:30:22
Unknown We're just like, Yeah, you know, she's not
complaining about anything. She seems perfectly fine. We'll put it off for a little while. The more you just get your cat out of the
house in the carrier taken for a short drive, come back again. 00:08:31:12 - 00:08:49:06
Unknown Now, if you've never seen my backpack before,
I sell a little backpack for cats. Take them out for a walk. The more they they, they are exposed to these
experiences. There's no making a vet visit like a trip
to Candyland, but it also doesn't have to be a trip to hell, either. 00:08:49:13 - 00:09:06:16
Unknown Health changes happen rapidly, so you really
want to be on top of it. And next, the big mistakes that humans make
hit parade. We have cat two cat introductions and also
dog to cat introductions, just introductions in general. 00:09:07:01 - 00:09:21:08
Unknown Not doing them properly backfires more times
than you could possibly imagine. The wisdom was. Yeah, you know, just take them home, put them
in a room together. Whatever it is, they'll work it out. Big mistake. Cats are territorial. 00:09:22:10 - 00:09:38:14
Unknown They function beautifully in groups. They function beautifully with other cats. I think cats should be with other cats. But when you bring in a cat to an existing
cat's territory, that cat is not going to be psyched right off the bat. 00:09:38:14 - 00:09:53:02
Unknown So if you do it in a controlled way, once
again, there's a video in the description, and maybe I'll even throw it up here. But when we talk all about cat the cat introductions,
but the same thing goes for dogs if you're bringing a dog into the house for the first
time. 00:09:53:09 - 00:10:05:21
Unknown The last thing you want is that dog chasing
the cat, even if it's just fun for them, because that is a chance at a good relationship gone
bad right from the start. So just take that extra couple of steps. 00:10:06:04 - 00:10:22:18
Unknown Make sure that you're introducing them so
they both feel safe. They both feel like they own the joint, and
that makes for, you know, happy roommates. All right, the next mistake that humans make
with their cats is not codifying their home or environmentally enriching their home. 00:10:22:18 - 00:10:43:21
Unknown I'm going to make a big list here. Just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang of things
that signify environmental enrichment or lack thereof. We can do so much for them, whether it's putting
up shelves or having more cat trees, things like that that will get them up in the air
when you have multiple cats creating that cat's super 00:10:43:21 - 00:11:03:02
Unknown highway lanes of traffic around the house. That's an opportunity, an opportunity to not
get in each other's way all the time, increasing the perception of how much territory we have. Because again, one of the tenets of codification
is to remember that cats perceive volume from floor to ceiling. 00:11:03:10 - 00:11:14:09
Unknown It's not like us when we walk into a room
and we're like, OK, here's my chair. When I sit in my chair, I'm not thinking about
the ceiling. Why would I do that? But your cat does. When they walk in the room, they're like,
Whoa. 00:11:15:14 - 00:11:35:21
Unknown Owning more ownership of territory or perceived
ownership of territory, that means Cat Mojo allowing your cats as much window space as
you possibly can. Cat TV is another one. You know, this small act of hanging a bird
feeder outside your window will get your cats just going. 00:11:36:05 - 00:11:52:10
Unknown Another element of cat ification that I find
really important is the concept of base camp. If there's a room that can be your cat's safe
place and let's just even say it's your bedroom because your scent is so strong there because
it's your bed having other belongings in that room. 00:11:52:21 - 00:12:10:19
Unknown Again, cat trees, litter box beds, blankets
anything that smells or signifies ownership from your cat is there so that not only when
scary things happen in the house, they can go to their base camp and feel safe. But when you move, that's a big one. 00:12:10:22 - 00:12:31:18
Unknown You move. And now, wherever it is that you set up that
base camp, your cat feels like they're home. It's about what I own and and like I said,
from litter boxes to beds to blankets, everything in between that counts and having a base camp
to to sort of house a lot of that good stuff, that's also 00:12:31:18 - 00:12:50:03
Unknown really important as well. Another mistake that we make with our cats
just improper nutrition. Now listen, I have made three videos on dry
food where food raw food. I urge you to watch all three of those videos
just so that you understand just the very basics of what cats need to eat. 00:12:50:03 - 00:13:05:17
Unknown And here's the just the real. I mean, you want to talk about cliff notes. They are obligate carnivores. Your cats need to eat meat, actual meat. Not, you know, little representations of meat,
but meat. They're also very highly carb intolerant. 00:13:06:01 - 00:13:21:23
Unknown So having lots of carbs in your cat's diets? Big mistake. 25 years ago, try to feed your cat like high
quality wet, which was loads of money or raw, which would've meant like you up to your knees
and like grinding meat in your kitchen. 00:13:21:23 - 00:13:39:10
Unknown Just disgusting. Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. There's just so many quality brands out there
when it comes to cat food. The mistake that you would make is just not
learning about what cats need to eat, what they thrive on, and conversely, what could
hurt them in the long run. 00:13:39:15 - 00:13:57:03
Unknown So just learn that right there. Avoid that mistake. And again, we're not here to judge if you're
doing something that you didn't know about. I've been there. We've all been there. I made some very large mistakes when it came
to my cat's nutrition, and I think I paid the price for it or they did over time and 00:13:57:03 - 00:14:16:16
Unknown I learned and I adapted. And that's just what I'm asking you to do. So check out those videos, all about cat nutrition. So I'm saving the biggest offender for the
last on this list. Our final mistake that humans make when it
comes to their cats is Drumroll, please. 00:14:18:06 - 00:14:35:11
Unknown I said, drumroll, please. Man, you just can't get good help anymore,
Kenya. Thank you. Is. Declawing your cat. There is no two ways around this declawing
your cat is a mistake. I think it's abusive. I think it's inhumane. 00:14:35:12 - 00:14:53:23
Unknown I think it's it's it's when you know that
we're not just taking the nails out, but we are amputating each digit at the first knuckle,
changing the way that they walk forever, creating pain that may last the rest of their lives. 00:14:54:06 - 00:15:13:20
Unknown Upping the chances for arthritis. Messing with their confidence. Upping the chance that they will go from scratching
to biting instead. Litter box issues that they've crop up afterwards
and a general erosion of your relationship with them. If you know all that stuff and you still go
out there and call your cat, I don't know what to say 00:15:13:22 - 00:15:27:12
Unknown . That's why I'm making this the big one here
ahead of all of them. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic here,
but I beg you not to declare your cats if your cats are clogging up your furniture,
doing things with their claws that you don't like. 00:15:27:17 - 00:15:43:02
Unknown We can fix that. We have. I have plenty of things to show you where
we can save your furniture. The hands down we can, we can help trim your
cat's claws. They're even nail caps that you could put
on your cat's claws, and people ask me all the time. 00:15:43:02 - 00:15:57:23
Unknown Wasn't that inhumane? No inhumane. The stick flying. But if you're having a lot of problems with
your cat's claws, yet, we can put those caps on there. That's OK. That's OK. The only thing that's not OK is mutilating
your cat to save your furniture or for any other reason. 00:15:58:03 - 00:16:17:17
Unknown So again, I'm not here to shame you if you
have declawed your cats. I'm here to implore you to do some reading
up on the subject, and it's OK if that is your story in the past. Just please don't make it your story in the
future. 00:16:17:21 - 00:16:38:15
Unknown So, yes, there's there's mistakes that we
make in the course of our relationships. And I mean, all relationships like, man, I'm
just thinking about the mistakes I made today. Every mistake that I may have outlined here
and calling it a mistake is is just it's another way of saying that there's an opportunity
that you might have missed 00:16:38:15 - 00:16:54:02
Unknown , but it's never too late to take the opportunity. Don't forget, I get my ideas for these videos
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Unknown He's got a new short. He just put a post up. He's got a Premiere coming. He's dancing around the room with with, you
know, a big hat on. All these good things happen from ringing
that bell and subscribing. 00:17:04:19 - 00:17:11:11
Unknown Now, why wouldn't you go ahead and do that? All right, guys. Till next time. All right, all of all, cat mojo to you.
