I'm in Oklahoma right now visiting my partner's family. First time here if you don't include driving through as fast as I can.

GO. Go on, git. No one wants to do this again.

And I think that's awesome, especially for laypeople with cats. BUT. As a behaviorist, that's where I get a bit prickly about his lack of qualifications. Because something like that doesn't really help the owners, or the viewers with cats of a similar personality.

person: "Oh, Fred (dog/cat, doesn't matter) does/does not do (x thing) even when/if we're not around." Me: "how do you know?"

My partner's ex didn't want his cat on the furniture, tables or counters. "It caused a lot of stress in our relationship," he said early on. NO WAY.

WILL...OBEY...CATS...

Exactly. "My cat doesn't use the box." "Oh, you should move it to a room that isn't locked."

it was great when it started. The big GM exodus, and all that. But it got...insular. Clique-y. Echo chamber-y. And I say that as an author and prolific commenter! I made a lot of great friends, but it's just not sustainable the way that GM is. Everybody needs snark.

I will! A million years ago I left here for not #crasstalk but website Crasstalk— I'm starting to have fun again :D

Take it! I only tour rarely now; I'm getting my Masters and doing commercial/film work mostly. If living on a bus with 13 cats, 4 rats, a chicken and a groundhog is for you I can hook you up :)

Rawr!

Just give it time, darlin'. The frisson of anticipation and all that haha.

Likewise. There are only a handful of people I'd die if I met.

Which is why you and I don't have a show haha

Yes, definitely true! With the cats especially. A lot of cats are sort of "latchkey cats."

Thanks! Don't worry. I follow a behavioral philosophy called "do as I say, not as I do."

They are the worst tippers, I hear. Montreal folk on vacation in Florida, STEP IT UP.

Exactly! You want two things for a show like this: 1) drama/good TV and 2) a relatively easy-to-solve problem. I have to say that the most complex feline issues would probably make for the most boring show ever. "So we've ruled out the obvious causes. Okay, now I'm just going to sit here and observe what your cat does…

Sometimes I forget how cool my job sounds. After 16 hours of work, covered in a pound of stage makeup, with cat litter in my bra, it seems considerably less cool :D

In six days, I get to bring home two kittens— one the newest cat circus star, the other my new addition. I trimmed their nails yesterday in advance. UGH. I have scars all over my forearms from cats.