these are the rescue cats okay hi guys look at everybody in here so we have 11 cats in here mhm okay they'll start coming out as they get more comfortable so hi snow all 11 cats get along just fine yeah that's kind of remarkable by the time you come back the goal is this will be all new cats okay a lot of these guys some of them are special needs right now okay hi baby doll come here my love I'm just going to hang out here going to sleep here hi babies seeing 11 cats in
one room get along like this isn't just heartwarming it's proof that whatever is behind twinkle cat aggression it has nothing to do with the guardians or the Foster environment itself so now it's time to meet twinkle all right let's go go Jackson's about to meet twinkle and I'm just wondering what is Twinkle going to do is he going to bite is he going to attack okay so he's just immediately red out of here although it's a nice big space that tells me something right off the bat he doesn't want to be in here hey buddy
buddy come here say hi to me it's okay so immediately he's taking himself and erasing the smell of the other cats off us that's what he's doing right yes so he's taking his cheek glands he's taking you know anything he can he's got a job right now he is making sure that look at that that we are not going to smell like anybody else by the time we leave here so that's really important to him in the meantime he's getting very activated while he's doing that this is a job this is not play if you
start petting and petting and stuff like that you are getting him to the point where he is going to get worked up and he's going to start doing that okay boom boom boom this is all because of the other cats yeah that's it okay twinkle my friend bite no bite no bite he's biting Me Now Elaine is she's a little bit too much of a mom in this situation so twinkle starts acting up and she wants to pet him into control she's petting him out of control they are having a hard time adopting him out
because all they're seeing is this bad behavior they're not in any way thinking this is ideal they want it over as much as anybody else does what's that okay you see how well I knew what he was going to do right boom boom Oh we are totally like on the Move now the garage it's cold it's lonely there's no interaction with other humans and then you meet twinkle and he's this energetic troubl seeking Dennis the Menace type of cat and this is no place for him this is the same thing as what he was just
doing to you this is not aggression he is just so filled with that static energy that he has to get it out of his system he about a year old and he just wants to get in trouble and play the second I break out that toy we know who this cat is here's what I want to do I want to have twinkle in the room I want to see once another cat comes into the space can we redirect him can we get him interested in something else or is he going to go so singular that
we won't be able to do it I mean normally would try to make an assessment without seeing that okay but I I don't think there's any way all right maybe we should do Linus lus we'll try lonus see if they can interact okay so you want to go try to get lonus let's keep this door closed so that we have an airlock going on we currently have five of our own cats lonus is the baby he's extremely laidback he loves to play with other cats and if twinkle could be friendly towards any other cats it
would be lus but when I brought twinkle here instantly he attacked my cat lonus when twinkle comes anywhere near lonus l will start growling automatically cuz he knows God's sake holy crap he got you it's a horrible feeling when a guardian gets attacked by their cat when I'm in their presence lonus attacking Elaine because of how scared he was of Twinkle we just got a pretty loud shot across the bow from the other residents of the house they're scared of him yeah elain that's not scared that's terrified yeah I know I am shocked that lonus
attacked the lane a lane bottle fed lonus cin he was a few weeks old just shocking to me okay come on in all right so I still need to see twinkle with another cat I've seen twinkle worked up I've seen him redirect that energy now the only thing that I have not seen is I haven't seen twinkle with another cat in the room now in terms of another cat where's the closest cat to him right now there is a cat Cayenne is an outdoor cat she comes in and she sleeps in the garage oh she's
on the other side other side of what the door now she has experience with him as well yeah okay well here's the plan I do want to see him in the visual vicinity of another cat I'd rather there not be Carnage so what I'd like to do is use what I would call sight blockers so when I know the fight is beginning I would plunk in between and that way they just have that moment and then we can guide them away I figured that the most organic way to make this exercise happen is to open
the door separating the two parts of the garage and have twinkle come into the room where Cayenne is and if anything goes down we can stop it before it gets too bad with sight blockers basically you can use a cardboard box anything where you don't have to bend down and put your hand Into The Fray then you can split them up oh here he goes okay so in he comes okay so she sees him she sees him she knows now he's just doing she may run up wow that right there is a portrait of mortal
fear how many times have the two of them gotten into it three times three times mhm oh there's a hiss oh [Music] boy oh please no fight back here all right there we go I'm checking on cayenne and she's okay up goes that's good now no no no no you ain't going there no I am not letting you out there man he is driven ow when I reach up to even and try to get him focused on something besides Cayenne that's when I got beat up okay I get you baby I get you no no
no no no no no wow driven he is we're going to get down we're going to get down down down down down down down okay twinkle is not coming down from 100 even one point what is it buddy what is it what is it what is it what is it what is it come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on there we go what's really important we get out of that room elain and Eric are shaking up I want to prove to them immediately that this
energy that he's got in him can go right into play that boy has an endless gas tank I wasn't expecting as much energy as he had to expend on that and by the way he's still expending it one of the things that we've seen today is that it's not just about him the damage that you took to your face today is because your other cats are so terrified that they will attack you in order to not come face to face with him okay let's leave him alone go back in the living room and figure it
all out okay all right great so far in the course of just a few hours I've seen olan's favorite cuddly sweet house cat just carve up her face because he was so terrified of Twinkle and if that's not enough I saw twinkle go to war with the other sweet cat living next door in the garage and I already know from going upstairs that Eric and Elaine and the other Foster cats have nothing to do with the problem I'm just going to hang out here I'm going to sleep here so that leads me to one Stark
conclusion about what's got to happen next year and I'm really afraid that Elaine's not going to like it I mean here's my take and it's just it's plain and simple I think that the effort to get him socialized to other cats in this house is is going to be a frustrating waste of time it's not a matter of you know let's get him to work with other cats in this house it's a matter of the only way we can work with him is not in this house he needs social interaction I really seriously feel that
every day that we spend trying to find a solution here is a day that's detrimental to him for his development and detrimental potentially to every other cat in this house so here's what I want by the time I get back here next time he's got to be someplace else a home with no cats out of this house
