Jackson Galaxy, star of the new Animal Planet show, 'My Cat From Hell,' makes his living trying to figure out what makes cats crazy and then nipping it in the bud. If you have a cat from hell, Jackson Galaxy may be the guy who can get little Mittens to start acting normal.
Well, normal as a cat can be, anyway.
Galaxy is the star of the new Animal Planet show My Cat From Hell, which debuts May 7. The show features him helping owners of some very stressed-out cats who, in turn, are stressing out their owners in the grossest ways imaginable.
One of my clients was a big guy who moved in with his girlfriend who already had the cat, Galaxy told AOL Weird News. He was trying to be understanding of the cat -- until it started peeing in his mouth while sleeping.
Although Galaxy is a cat lover, he concedes the idea of drinking cat urine while snoozing is unpleasant.
However, the hardest part was getting the guy to calm down, he said. I understood why he was upset, but, to me, the real issue was what was coming out of the guy's mouth that made the cat want to urinate.
The solution turned out to be a real snoozer: Galaxy recommended the client go through a sleep study and, sure enough, the man had sleep apnea and snored very loudly.
The noise scared the cat and he was trying to wake the guy up because he thought something was wrong, Galaxy said.
In case you're wondering, that story will not be featured My Cat From Hell, but Galaxy believes it illustrates a point beyond the obvious one that cat urine is vile.
We need to better understand cats, he said. The problem, I think, is that we think of them in terms of a species and not as individuals. That approach might work occasionally, but it's like that idea that if you put 100 monkeys with 100 computers, one of them will eventually type Shakespeare.
I believe that if I can find the stress, I can solve the problem, he added.
Galaxy has used that approach to great success, despite not being a vet or having certified cat expert credentials.
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