Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet's "My Cat From HELL."

I don't think he's a genius, but I do think a lot of cat owners are idiots.

Will agree with that!

There have been several episodes that have boiled down to "your boyfriend is an ass".

Ha yeah. Like the guy who wouldn't let the cats in the bedroom.

Cats are pretty simple andf ppl are, indeed, prone to be idiots. This is essentially the entire premise of the show.

Would be interested to know how he deals with cats who weren't properly weaned off their mama's teat, as this has been the case with every broken cat I've ever known. Also is some variant of this problem the reason why he makes himself look like that.

michael white and grady otm: the look is a huge, huge problem, but he seems like a decent guy, and he clearly knows & loves cats. figure his appearance is some consequence of horrible LA style and the need for everybody on TV to have some kind of trademark (same thing, i guess).

His head is really pointy.

also, he is in a rock n' roll band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J-hmyAS6c

I don't have a lot of experience with improperly weaned cats who are terrified of everything (because I like to adopt the ones that will talk to me in the shelter), but the ones who don't know their limits in playfighting because of early socialization issues aren't too hard to deal with: control your fear and don't react big, punish only by ignoring, and (as Galaxy says every episode because, duh, these are cats), make sure they're playing enough and have appropriate stuff to kill. That's worked for me a couple of times.

is his surname actually galaxy

if it is he should be in a band with Danny Invincible and they should have powers and his could be CATS

the league of extraordinarily lame looking guys

can't hate on a cat bro

Animal Planet should make this available on their website or through Netflix so I can watch it while I drink coffee on Sunday mornings.

Oh, you can buy it from iTunes but boy, I don't know if that's worth it.

Animal Planet is running a "Cat-a-thon" today, so no doubt this poor idiot's going to appear at some point.

imagine you hung out with this guy. there'd be a moment like at the bar or at the end of dinner. he'd take off his glasses, and you could see the glasses-crease on the side of his face, and the flat top of the sideburn.

imagine how horrible that would be.

I can't stop thinking about this post.

the idea of ~cat furniture~ is appaling to me

Cat gazebo!

Cats really aren't that hard to figure out: the crazy ones need to play hunt, the mean ones are hurt or don't have a quiet spot to be alone, the ones with bad bathroom behavior are sick or have a grungy, badly placed or inappropriate litter box, and they all appreciate a little cat style communication (blinking, purr-talking, petting)

This does not fix all problems, and is an oversimplification. There are so many different things that can be going on with cats.

^^^yup.

Name three.

napkins, manky, and mr. boo

I've seen two shows and both contained interesting cat stuff and pretty amazing babes who happened to be the owner of the cats (one was a yoga instructor and the other one's cat was called minibar) - which made me suspect he only helped good looking women with cat issues, but that's entirely based on the only two shows I've seen - but um yeah, cool dude.

x-post

OK, you got me. Cats with dumb-ass names will rise up to destroy you for humiliating them, and cannot be stopped.

imagine you hung out with this guy. there'd be a moment like at the bar or at the end of dinner. he'd take off his glasses, and you could see the glasses-crease on the side of his face, and the flat top of the sideburn.

imagine how horrible that would be.

― goole, Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:00 PM (2 days ago)

this happened on the first episode i watched!!!!!!! i looked right at that crease!!!!!

lol, j/k. i agree with you in general, but but i have experienced a number of cat problems that don't fit easily into one of those groups. imbalances in dominance behavior among multiple cats, for instance, or the psychological/behavioral consequences of improper weaning (can be a real problem with kittens lost or abandoned very early on). there are general "rules" that apply to most cats, and i think you described them quite well, but like any living thing, there's still an enormous amount of variety from individual to individual. some cats are just outliers, have weird little fur-brains.

^ that to 3-word's xp

*sprays all over this thread since y'all are making me nervous*

aaaah. that's better.

Declawing and abuse can both have damaging psychological effects on a cat, and I don't think the solutions are always as simple as giving the cat space or toys, etc.

No, that's fair enough -- but I think about my "rules" as better describing the sorts of things humans can do to help cats than a description of various forms of cat psychology. For example, I had a cat with extreme aggression problems that were certainly part physiological (hyperthyroidism), and probably (but I could never know this) in part the result of trauma AND improper weaning. A real mess, but he was fixable, and it wasn't that complicated a fix -- the right meds, and learning the difference between scared defensive aggression and overly aggressive play, and comforting the one and getting the other into shape by combining withdrawal of attention for really bad behavior and getting the good craziness out on toys -- it made a huge difference, and he became an amazing friend to me. Domestic cats are social animals and liking the people you depend on and making them like you is a matter of survival -- that simplifies the whole thing. But it is also true that I always start with a cat by seeing if it reacts to my peaceful attempts at communication, and I don't take the ones who don't home. I do think that a cat who is not completely feral and not brain damaged or -- and yes, I admit there are cats like this -- really stupid can learn to live with people.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CitytheKitty

An alum from the program (StanM, one of his two mothers you may remember from her tight t-shirts).

no jackson galaxy, but i'm closing in on 2hrs of too cute (kittens!) on animal planet.

o ver loa ded

napkins is an awesome name for a cat btw

Especially if it's a functional name.

my 2nd cat was named Boo (as distinct from "'Mr' Boo".) current cat is named Tanky, which i guess is one letter away from 'manky'. contenderizer and i obv have similar leanings in cat names

this guy does seem like a bro. albeit one that has a crappy band.

http://www.moderncat.net/2012/03/09/cats-guitars-jackson-galaxys-place-gets-a-moderncat-makeover/#comments

That looks way too cluttered and he's got a litter box next to his bed and his desk, which is going to stink and result in a pound of litter in the sheets. D-

napkins is an awesome name for a cat btw

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:01 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Especially if it's a functional name.

― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:05 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc376/copyranter/cat-1.gif

"zOooooooooooooooooooom"

was a little disappointed to find out "Jackson Galaxy" was not the name of a cat, because that's a good name for a cat.

also good names for cats: every single character from star trek: the next generation and deep space 9.

Also: Tuvok

can't hate on a cat bro

― some crap (electricsound), Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:41 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and Neelix. And Tuvix.
xp

napkin

I had a kitten once, for a day, I named him 'pizza'

did he end up thin crust?

if you want to hear me and Chaki talking about Jackson Galaxy and My Cat From HELL, skip to 19:26 here: http://www.fccfreeradio.com/shows/illogical/live/illogical_show.mp3

fuck did ILX eat my post?!?!?
i wrote like three paragraphs about my feelings for this guy a couple nights ago.

Yes that is also a direct quote from his living room.

i for one have found a new level of admiration for the man

It is my firmly held belief that Jackson Galaxy would never go on TV and suggestively waggle his tongue under a stream of Pellegrino.

was just drinking some san pelligrino myself. have pushed the bottle far across the desk now.

ya that image shd be banned tbh

i mean pelligrino is a good decent family drink

http://i49.tinypic.com/14u0pw.jpg

cmon man

FP

bummed that he wasn't in guardians of the galaxy tbh

saw a good ep where a lady was dressing up her cat in little like princess or whatever outfits -- amongst the homework that jackson gave was, you know, you need to stop that -- cut to showing jackson the homework video -- they are having a whole orchestrated CAT WEDDING

i really thought they were trolling but she ended up being all 'well we already had it planned, invitations had gone out' & i honestly was like well ok

lmso