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Jackson, I haven't
slept in three days.

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My cat keeps me
up all night long.

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I'm gonna kill her.

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No, I'm not gonna kill her,
but Jackson, you gotta tell me.

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I'm gonna kill myself here.

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Tell me, how do I sleep
through the night?

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And I say, oh, that one?

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That's easy.

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So let me ask you
something, people.

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You ready to get cat-ified?

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Let's go!

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As you have noticed
I'm sure, this

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is not exactly the cat cave.

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It is a cave.

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It's a little echoey in here.

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But no, I am in a hotel room
in San Diego, California,

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where we are wrapping
up filming the season

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of "My Cat from
Hell" season five,

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premiering-- coming
up in the spring.

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Do stay tuned because
you'll find out

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everything you have to know
about the premier of "My Cat

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from Hell" here, on
the Cat Daddy channel.

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Just, you know, stay tuned.

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So today we're
talking about what?

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Your cat allowing you to
sleep through the night.

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Now, the last
episode I was talking

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about the concept of
circadian rhythms,

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a cat's 24 hour clock,
and how naturally it

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wants to get them
up at dusk and dawn.

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We can help guide
their circadian rhythm.

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We can reset their body clocks.

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But there's a couple of
really important things.

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Now when last we met I
also gave you homework,

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and that homework
was about making sure

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that you established a daily
rhythm, that you establish

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rituals that happen
throughout the day that

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helps keep their body going.

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And the one thing that is
most important to what we're

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going to do right now is
they're feeding schedule.

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Remember something,
if you allow your cats

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to graze all day
long, if you allow

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them to eat whenever
they want to eat,

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then not only do you not
have a chance of affecting

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their behavior
even a little bit,

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but you're not
allowing their body

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to process food in
the natural way.

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They're constantly in
this arc of digestion.

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And we don't want that
because then their energy

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is totally unpredictable to us.

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Here's what I would
ask you to do.

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If you free feed, make it stop.

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The next step is, you
bring in meal time.

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Real big change in a cat's life
is not met with nice things.

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And you do not want to
encourage bad behavior,

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and by making rapid changes
like that, you kind of are.

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We'll keep the dry food
out, but then every day you

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just put less and less in there.

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And by the end of that first
week that, there is food

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down there, they don't feel
like they're missing anything.

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But by an hour after
you leave for work,

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they've polished it off and
now they're waiting for a meal.

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Now here's the rule of thumb.

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I would like to see no
longer than between six

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and eight hours you
can make it happen.

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So you're feeding
three meals a day

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and then your cat's
energy is coming up

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to meet those meal times.

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And I guarantee you,
within a week or two

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of instituting this meal
time, your cat's energy

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will come up to
meet your schedules.

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Your second step
is to try to get

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them to go to sleep when you do.

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Let's say your bed
time is 11 o'clock.

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OK.

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So by 9:30 you should be
feeding your last meal.

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But you don't want to
do that in a vacuum.

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In the past-- you know me-- we
have been talking about hunt,

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catch, kill, eat.

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Right?

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And so that means playtime.

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That means you have a
really nice, chunky play

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time right before
that last meal.

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You bring them to a
boil during play time.

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You get them just pooped out.

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Then you let them come
down for a second.

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Again, all cats have the
second wind, the third wind.

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Cats are built for
speed, not for distance.

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So bring them to a boil,
let them come down.

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Bring them to a
boil, now it's going

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to take less time for
them to get worn out.

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Now less time, now
they're tired, right?

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When they pooped out, boom.

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Now, hunt, catch, kill, eat.

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Feed their last meal of the day.

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What comes after eat?

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Groom.

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Yeah, baby.

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We're all about getting
clean right now.

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And then sleep.

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And then you go to sleep.

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Now we're getting
to the hard part.

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Because now you've got
to do some serious work.

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So now it's 3 o'clock
in the morning,

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and your cat is waking you up.

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But you know, I gave you
a meal at 11 o'clock.

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I wore you down at 9:30.

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You should be down for the
count right now, but you're not.

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Now here's the tough part.

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I mean, I'm laughing
only because I

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know how ridiculously
hard this is.

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What you've got to do at
3 o'clock in the morning,

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your cat's driving you crazy.

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You ignore them.

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You ignore them completely.

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Completely.

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And you definitely don't get
up, feed them, walk around,

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go to the bathroom,
come back again.

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You don't play with them.

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Nothing.

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You ignore them completely.

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Because that is payoff.

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Negative attention, positive
attention, any attention

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whatsoever is still attention.

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You have to
extinguish the payoff.

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If you tell them
night after night

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after night that nothing's
going to happen when they

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do that certain behavior,
that behavior will stop.

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So people, what that means
is that for about 10 days

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to two weeks, it may be
really, really long nights.

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Don't kill me.

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Now, if it goes past 13 nights?

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Whatever, come find me.

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Because I'm telling
you, it won't happen.

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In conclusion, let's
give you some homework.

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Take a look at that blackboard.

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Now, write it down here.

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First thing you do
is change your cat

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from free-feeders
to meal-feeders.

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Big change.

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Next thing you do is you feed
in conjunction with play.

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Third thing, remember
that your cat's energy

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moves with your energy.

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So remember that you're trying
to merge the two together.

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Your energy, your cat's energy,
your clock, your cat's clock,

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merge them together.

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Then don't forget, the last
meal of the day an hour

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and a half before you go to bed.

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You're going to hunt, catch,
kill, eat, let them groom

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and sleep until you go to bed.

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Boom.

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Then we get through the night.

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And then the last step, folks--
the last, most important step

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is, ignore them.

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You guys can do this.

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You can affect your
cat's body clock,

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and that's how you do it.

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That's how you sleep
through the night.

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Boom.

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Consider yourself cat-ified.

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Alright.

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Let's wrap this up.

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Hey folks, if you're trying
to find me, I'm easily found.

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Take a look at Facebook
and Instagram and Twitter

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and YouTube and Google+.

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And don't forget,
speaking of Google+,

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every month we do Live
from the Cat Cave.

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And that is a live
Google Hangout.

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This month I'm just going to be
doing live question and answer.

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That will be a lot of fun.

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In the meantime, folks,
take care of yourself.

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Take care of your cats.

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And all light, all
love, all mojo to you.

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THEME SONG: You're a bad cat.

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I'm not a bad cat.

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You're a bad cat.

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I'm not a bad cat.

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You're a bad cat.

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I'm just misunderstood.

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Meow.

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