So, I ordered this on Friday night, chose two day shipping for 'el free-o since I'm a prime member. BAM shows up without a hitch. The packaging was nice and I did read about the theme of the book.
While I haven't read this book just yet, I bought it as a Mother's Day gift (2014) for my mom. We get together once a week and marathon a few episodes of My Cat From Hell, and then catch up on the kitteh's on the web series of My Cat from Hell, How Do You Like Meow. What's amazing is how well that show captures the humanity in a lot of the owners, and in 90% of the episodes you're left teary eyed if not crying at how happy the stories make you.
Being a cat owner myself and sharing a similar story to Jackson's I can relate.
For me in 2010, I was let go from a job I had worked so hard to obtain. Great pay, good people and in the field I absolutely love. After a fellow employee decided that they just didn't like that my position allowed to dictate rules and changes that they weren't used to they, through a series of unconnected events, were able to get their wish and have me terminated for a grey area in our recently changed handbook a few days earlier. I had just moved into a bigger place and out of my parents at the time, the prior year I had a huge surgery and since a doctor had marked my condition as "pre-existing" insurance didn't cover a dime. After I was terminated I looked up and down for a job in the market I'm in, which lead to a lot of stress. I ended up having hypertension as the hospital called it, which lead to severe panic or anxiety attacks. It got so bad, and lasted so long I lost so many friends and relationships because nobody actually knew what it was like. You often get replies from people like "oh I have a panic attack and I just think it away and im fine" to which I used to reply, that's NOT what I'm experiencing. It's as if you're stuck in some malfunctioning body and your brain is telling you everything is fine, but your body just won't move.
I was terminated two days after Christmas, and 3 days after being terminated a cat that I had had since Childhood had passed away. He was 18 and we loved him more than anything. A woman I worked with happened to have an almost identical in looks and personality cat. While my other one was alive we would often send video/pictures of both our cats doing similar things and comparing about how much we loved them. I get a call one day while I'm frantically trying to manage anxiety and filling out tons of resumes online asking if I could take this cat in since it was decided she had way to many cats/animals at their place. I stated that I had absolutely no money to pay a pet deposit at my place and she agreed to cover that and the first few months food bills. It wasn't long after she dropped him off that me and the cat hit it off. He sat on the edge of the bath tub as I sit trying to relax my body in a hot epsomsalt bath, he'd follow me around my place and sit with me wherever I was, always meowing at me to make sure I was okay. He even went out and would bring animals he caught in through the window I would leave open in the bathroom so he could go in and out when I was home.
I would go on to have a few interviews and panic attacks in the middle of them, some I had to call on a friend or family member to drive me home, and once I got there he was waiting for me. I'd lay down on the bed or couch and he would just come lay on my chest and purr until I fell asleep or I wasn't feeling so tense.
When we were hit by the EF-5 Tornado of 2013 and me and my family stepped outside to see our entire neighborhood destroyed, houses, vehicles and the local elementary school where my niblings went and I eventually drove to to help pull kids from the rubble, I would return to find that he was missing. My heart began pouring out for him, I broke down in the middle of our street with debris all around, sobbing like a young child that had lost his mother. My neighbor and father had believed it was from the trauma of seeing the things with the children and perhaps it was, but in the end it was the thought that I lost my best friend.
In almost an instant of clarity, my neighbor said "is that your cat right there?", I looked down the street and saw a white plastic bag flying across the street, I explained "that's not a cat, it's a plastic bag". "not that" he replied, "Right there", I looked down once again and saw my buddy running low to the ground and scared. I yelled for him and he came running to me, I held him, and dried him off, felt him shivering. So glad he survived.
3 years have gone by and my anxiety is pretty much a thing of the past and I'm almost 100% back to the person I was before. I don't know how I could have done it without him and I can't think of any other cat I'd rather have. It's so hard to walk into the pet stores and see cats up for adoption that are 2-8 years old. I almost cry just walking by thinking how somebody took them to the shelter after loving them for years, only to abandon them. I want to love each and every one, although I know I cant. I hope each and every day they get a good home where they too can be loved as much as I love my cat.
With Jackson Galaxy's help, I've been able to play with and connect with my cat even more with his advice and techniques.
Thank you so much Jackson.
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