Cattitude - Episode 282 9Cats2Lives: Tim Carthon’s Cute and Crazy Feline Universe

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome Tim Carton. He
<v Speaker 2>is a keynote speaker and he's also the creator of
<v Speaker 2>hashtag nine cats, two lives. Welcome Tim all right.
<v Speaker 5>Thanks for CEO I appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm excited to have you on the show. So I
<v Speaker 2>know you do keynote speaking. Another part of your life
<v Speaker 2>is you're the creator of this nine Cats, two Lives, funny,
<v Speaker 2>humorous little show that you have online. Now you had
<v Speaker 2>it and then you brought it back. So we'll talk
<v Speaker 2>a little later. Can you first share your background.
<v Speaker 5>With us well as you've already told them. I'm a
<v Speaker 5>keynot speaker, but I'm also a business infrastructure specialist and
<v Speaker 5>author and a creator. So I help people literally frame
<v Speaker 5>their businesses who do startups because most people they have
<v Speaker 5>great ideas, but they don't know how to put them
<v Speaker 5>into actual action. So I do that as well. And
<v Speaker 5>I've been in business for the past twenty five years.
<v Speaker 5>I've started over thirty businesses. I edit documents, over two
<v Speaker 5>hundred thousand documents. I think I've done contracts, articles, resumes
<v Speaker 5>LinkedIn all of that stuff. I've also written twelve books
<v Speaker 5>and I've published six of them, and five of those
<v Speaker 5>books that I publish actually have to do with this
<v Speaker 5>nine Cast two Lives brand. So that's a little bit
<v Speaker 5>about little o me.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well that's exciting. Yeah, So tell us, how did
<v Speaker 2>you say, your five books that have that are a
<v Speaker 2>route nine Cats in two Lives. So we weren't doing
<v Speaker 2>anything about the bucks. So I don't know a lot
<v Speaker 2>about your bucks. But tell us what is nine Cats
<v Speaker 2>two lives?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, Well, here's the thing, because this is an interesting story.
<v Speaker 6>Now.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know how people are when it comes to
<v Speaker 5>their accounts on YouTube, Facebook, all these different social media accounts.
<v Speaker 5>But one thing about these businesses is they like to
<v Speaker 5>have content that people really like to see and that
<v Speaker 5>they considered advertiser friendly. Well, I have several things. My
<v Speaker 5>friends called me a business Swiss army Knight because I've
<v Speaker 5>mastered so many roums. But I had different things, politics, channels,
<v Speaker 5>relationships channels, all this type of stuff. And what happened
<v Speaker 5>was I wasn't getting the movement that I wanted to
<v Speaker 5>get with these things because YouTube is you know, they're
<v Speaker 5>more app sereal towards those type of topics. So I
<v Speaker 5>decided I'm going to come up with something else. And
<v Speaker 5>the story of how I came up with it is
<v Speaker 5>actually fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So let's hear that story because I asked you
<v Speaker 2>before we started. But let me ask you so our
<v Speaker 2>listeners know you don't really have nine casts.
<v Speaker 5>No, I don't have nine cast. I had one and
<v Speaker 5>I named it after I named it after the daughter
<v Speaker 5>that I never had, Jasmine. I think it's a beautiful name.
<v Speaker 5>But when me and my expert, you know, she took
<v Speaker 5>the kids, as they say, which is the cat? So
<v Speaker 5>I don't have one now, but I actually love casts.
<v Speaker 2>So you need one, and you know that they say,
<v Speaker 2>you know you need two. So there you go. All right,
<v Speaker 2>tell us the story of how it came about.
<v Speaker 5>Well, because of that whole thing I just told you
<v Speaker 5>with YouTube and all, I said, well, I have to
<v Speaker 5>come up with a brand, some type of thing that
<v Speaker 5>I can do on these social media platforms where they
<v Speaker 5>will give the advertisement to me. They won't be looking
<v Speaker 5>and over their shoulder and me. It'll just be something
<v Speaker 5>non controversial. So I came up with something I called
<v Speaker 5>my brand of Worlds. And I actually every one of
<v Speaker 5>these brands in with the word world. So I came
<v Speaker 5>up with something called a Peaceful Dream World. Why I
<v Speaker 5>help people sleep with these videos. But it took so
<v Speaker 5>long because they were like ten hours. So I said, okay,
<v Speaker 5>came up with something called a Beautiful Travel World. People
<v Speaker 5>love travel videos, but those videos weren't getting the attraction
<v Speaker 5>that I wanted them to get as far as sub scarters.
<v Speaker 5>Then I came up with something called a Healthy Food World,
<v Speaker 5>teaching people how to be healthy. That's the site I
<v Speaker 5>have as well. But when it came to another one,
<v Speaker 5>I said, man, I got this great brand of worlds.
<v Speaker 5>He said, but I like cats, Say hey, why don't
<v Speaker 5>I do something with cats? And then the Cute and
<v Speaker 5>Crazy Cat World was born. I always liked to try
<v Speaker 5>to do things that are creative inside of a genre,
<v Speaker 5>not just do the thing that everybody else does. So
<v Speaker 5>I created that, and I actually this time I made
<v Speaker 5>sure I wrote that all the stuff that came with
<v Speaker 5>the creation of it, because when you documented in history,
<v Speaker 5>it's easy to make the movie about it later. Yes.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, so the Nine Cats Two Lives came about to
<v Speaker 2>help kind of faciliate your other businesses. But how is
<v Speaker 2>that kind of enamorogy about cats? And did you think
<v Speaker 2>cats were that I guess adored by the.
<v Speaker 5>Y Yeah, because the thing about I've noticed this, like
<v Speaker 5>people love humans. Humans are awesome. You know, of course
<v Speaker 5>you have some outlies, but humans are generally awesome, and
<v Speaker 5>humans just love animals. I like cats, but I'm not
<v Speaker 5>Steve Hren. You know, I'm not the guy who you
<v Speaker 5>will see you in an ally or or something. But
<v Speaker 5>people like animals. So when I came up with set.
<v Speaker 2>We call them fur babes.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, they cover fur babies. Right, So when people
<v Speaker 5>think about animals, they think about, Okay, I like turtles,
<v Speaker 5>or I like fish, or I like this whatever type
<v Speaker 5>of animal. And one thing about ass is that they're
<v Speaker 5>kind of loved by a lot of individual humans. They're
<v Speaker 5>probably seeing more in homes and all than anything, probably
<v Speaker 5>except dogs. So I was like, hey, it's like, I
<v Speaker 5>like cats, so why don't I make a serious about
<v Speaker 5>them because they are kind of hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>They are. And I don't know the exact number anymore
<v Speaker 2>because it changes all the time. But in the shows
<v Speaker 2>I've had all that there's actually more dog pet parents,
<v Speaker 2>but the total number of cats is larger, right because
<v Speaker 2>most people they might have won dog two dogs, but
<v Speaker 2>cats it's rare that there's one. There's usually two or three.
<v Speaker 2>I had five at once, but two were like outside
<v Speaker 2>but catered to like the head of house.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, they don't have there are people will have
<v Speaker 5>a ton of cats because cats their size, them being
<v Speaker 5>so much smaller, it's kind of a thing of well,
<v Speaker 5>since they're so much smaller, they won't take up as
<v Speaker 5>much room. But it's almost like how people when they
<v Speaker 5>have more money, they spend more money. Well, when you
<v Speaker 5>have more room because you have a smaller animal, guess
<v Speaker 5>what you do? You more animals to feel more room.
<v Speaker 5>So somebody may have one dog, but they'll have four cats.
<v Speaker 2>They are smaller, but I don't think they're less expensive
<v Speaker 2>than dogs. Especially they'd like to play with each other.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and that's part of the funny.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's why we always say when you adopt a cat,
<v Speaker 2>you should adopt two, because one cat by itself, you know,
<v Speaker 2>if you're at work and not home all the time,
<v Speaker 2>the cat, it's boards.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, they'll just sit under the table or something, or
<v Speaker 5>under the bed. But when you have two, they run
<v Speaker 5>around like crazy fur bunnies as you say, fur babies rather.
<v Speaker 5>So it's fun to watch though, because it's like a
<v Speaker 5>brother and sister, but brothers and sisters who have the
<v Speaker 5>speed of the flash in Superman. So you're just watching
<v Speaker 5>them go crazy and it's like, wow, amazing animals.
<v Speaker 2>When they get these especially zoom. All the zoo cats
<v Speaker 2>get them too, not mine. Mine are all older and lazy,
<v Speaker 2>but most of them. But I'll tell you anytime I am,
<v Speaker 2>when I'm charging my tablet or a phone, all of
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, Molly could care less about anything. She's a diva.
<v Speaker 2>She sees that cord go in and her ears perked up.
<v Speaker 2>She's all excited. She wants to bite it. Why this
<v Speaker 2>one cord? I don't know. She goes nuts for this
<v Speaker 2>one cord. I don't know. I've heard cats see in
<v Speaker 2>black and white, and this one is a lighter colored cord,
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know if that has anything to do
<v Speaker 2>with it, or she's just, you know, a cat.
<v Speaker 5>Cats get enamored by things that make no sense to humans.
<v Speaker 5>We'll look at them and they'll pick up something like
<v Speaker 5>one thing about cast that people will probably notice, soupad
<v Speaker 5>cast is like if a cat is like not having keys,
<v Speaker 5>their spade or neutered or something. They will pick up
<v Speaker 5>different items, like they'll pick up a sock, pick up
<v Speaker 5>a shirt, and in their mind that's like them carrying
<v Speaker 5>their child. And you'll hear them start purring, making a
<v Speaker 5>specific sound for them when they're just walking around with
<v Speaker 5>their sting in their mouth because in their mind it's
<v Speaker 5>almost like they're carrying their baby, but it's a sock.
<v Speaker 5>Cats are extraordinarily interesting.
<v Speaker 2>I never had my cats do that, but I don't
<v Speaker 2>doubt it. What do you think makes cats so funny?
<v Speaker 5>Well, I talk about my brother. My brother is hilarious, okay,
<v Speaker 5>and everyone knows it. They just when they get around him.
<v Speaker 5>He's just somebody with whom you can just laugh. I
<v Speaker 5>am too, but because I'm so serious a person, majority
<v Speaker 5>of the time, I don't show that to most people.
<v Speaker 5>So this actual brand gave me a way to be
<v Speaker 5>able to let out my funny by doing the things
<v Speaker 5>on these web series videos that Cat's doing real life.
<v Speaker 5>They're like what I call my brother. I call them
<v Speaker 5>and it's not an insult. I call him an individual idiot,
<v Speaker 5>because in some cultures, when you say, oh man, you're
<v Speaker 5>an idiot, you're you're actually saying if they're funny, you
<v Speaker 5>just it's an actual compliment in the context. So I
<v Speaker 5>called them like individual idias, like they can be by
<v Speaker 5>themselves and have fun with themselves and you're just sitting
<v Speaker 5>there looking at them, like, what's going on in this
<v Speaker 5>cat's mind? I'm seeing a cat kick themselves in the
<v Speaker 5>face multiple times, and I'm city, I'm sitting there, like,
<v Speaker 5>are you having an internal battle with yourself?
<v Speaker 6>Sir?
<v Speaker 5>I don't know what's happening.
<v Speaker 2>You think they were trying to groom or something and
<v Speaker 2>they just whack themselves.
<v Speaker 5>But yes, they were because they were they were looking. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>they were like grooming themselves. They're like Paul, and then
<v Speaker 5>they just kicked themselves in the face four times. It
<v Speaker 5>just was like pat, Pat, pap, I'll said, what is
<v Speaker 5>I don't know. Maybe they got upset with themselves because
<v Speaker 5>they didn't clean their Paul correctly. This is just the
<v Speaker 5>types of silly things that they do. It's just hilarious
<v Speaker 5>to watch.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we're gonna take a quick thing and we'll be
<v Speaker 2>right back to talk more about your comedy and maybe
<v Speaker 2>learn something about some of the stars of your series.
<v Speaker 2>So we'll right back.
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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to everyone. We're talking to Tim Cartan and
<v Speaker 2>we are talking about his comedy series that he has resurrected.
<v Speaker 2>It's hashtag nine Cats, two Lives. So, Tim, what are
<v Speaker 2>some of the topics we will see in your cat comedy.
<v Speaker 5>Well, here's the thing, and it's funny that you ask that,
<v Speaker 5>because most of the series that you see of people
<v Speaker 5>online or on television wherever, they usually have a sequence.
<v Speaker 5>So if you watch one episode, then you can watch
<v Speaker 5>the next episode and it'll be like in a sequence. Well,
<v Speaker 5>with me, I just make different subject matter videos that
<v Speaker 5>might not necessarily tie to the one before. So I
<v Speaker 5>can make a video about the cats finding out what
<v Speaker 5>a phone is. I'll make a VW about one cat
<v Speaker 5>getting scared because they heard a fan, and they never
<v Speaker 5>heard a fan before. Just it could be any little
<v Speaker 5>thing because I know how to make the most but
<v Speaker 5>nine thing funny, especially when you have the different characters
<v Speaker 5>that I created.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, can you share a little bit about your characters?
<v Speaker 5>Okay? So this is one of the best things that
<v Speaker 5>I think about this series because the series is called
<v Speaker 5>nine Cats, two Lives. Now, normally when people hear nine
<v Speaker 5>when it comes to a cat, what do they think? First?
<v Speaker 5>They don't think nine cats, They think what nine lives? Exactly.
<v Speaker 5>So it's called nine cats, two lies because it's a
<v Speaker 5>play on the words. And the two lives are the
<v Speaker 5>life that they had before they came into this particular home,
<v Speaker 5>and then this particular home life that they have is
<v Speaker 5>the second life. That's why it's called two lives. But
<v Speaker 5>the nine cat are because there are nine cats that
<v Speaker 5>I'm bringing in. And it's funny because the cats were
<v Speaker 5>named differently before, but I ended up changing it to
<v Speaker 5>whar every single cat. I'll give this little titbitch, you're
<v Speaker 5>getting a little bit of an exclusive. All of the
<v Speaker 5>cats names, all nine of them, begin with an S,
<v Speaker 5>all of them. Yet only four cats have been introduced.
<v Speaker 2>Why why did they all start with an ass.
<v Speaker 5>Because I thought it would be cover for all nine
<v Speaker 5>siblings to have a name where it starts with the
<v Speaker 5>same letter, same sound. So it started off with three cats,
<v Speaker 5>and the first carat is kind of a reflection of me.
<v Speaker 5>My friends say that they're called serious Cat. Now here's
<v Speaker 5>the thing about Serious Cat. He's like the default leader
<v Speaker 5>of the siblings, but he doesn't really know it, and
<v Speaker 5>that's because he's kind of an owner. He's always serious
<v Speaker 5>and logical, even to a fault sometimes. But one of
<v Speaker 5>the cats that'll be name in the future is his
<v Speaker 5>best counsel. He keeps the other cats in check when
<v Speaker 5>things start to unravel in the home, but only when
<v Speaker 5>he chooses to be the enforcement. So he's very protective
<v Speaker 5>of his sillies. That's one of the fore casts that
<v Speaker 5>have been introduced, Serious.
<v Speaker 2>Cat, Serious Cat Hat. And then the second.
<v Speaker 5>Cast, the second of the four, he's Silly Cat. Now
<v Speaker 5>you can just imagine Silly Cat. He's the easy going one,
<v Speaker 5>always trying to tell jokes or make the others laugh,
<v Speaker 5>and he always knows what's going on in the house
<v Speaker 5>before everyone else. So you'll notice a pattern of these cats.
<v Speaker 5>They have a dichotomy with it. So although silly Cat
<v Speaker 5>is silly, his second piece of him is that he's
<v Speaker 5>the one who knows everything that's going on. You see.
<v Speaker 5>It's so each cat has two parts to him. So
<v Speaker 5>the third cat, and this is this is a lot
<v Speaker 5>of people's favorite cat. Okay, it's called special Cat. Now
<v Speaker 5>special Cat. He's a really strong, physically strong cat, maybe
<v Speaker 5>in the top three strongest of the bunch. But it's
<v Speaker 5>almost always saying seemingly something that's kind of, you know,
<v Speaker 5>missing the point, kind of a little bit of loose.
<v Speaker 5>They don't know it. But this is because he came
<v Speaker 5>from like a clueless style family with the sister who
<v Speaker 5>was like if you've ever seen this show, married with children.
<v Speaker 5>His sister was kind of like kind of like Kelly Bundy,
<v Speaker 5>kind of dating myself. But however, remember each of them
<v Speaker 5>have two things about him. However, every Blue Moon Special
<v Speaker 5>Cat will say something that seems completely backwards but actually
<v Speaker 5>makes the others go hmm. Like another old school show
<v Speaker 5>ar Senior Hall used to like, such cat may say
<v Speaker 5>some people what he just said made sist. So that's
<v Speaker 5>his dichotomy. So those were the first three casts I introduced.
<v Speaker 5>The other cats only get introduced once every one to
<v Speaker 5>two years. Literally, you won't see a new cat for
<v Speaker 5>every one to two years. So a fourth cat came
<v Speaker 5>I think a year and a half to two years ago.
<v Speaker 5>And that fourth cat, which is these are on the
<v Speaker 5>only four that are actually public, it's called Somber Cat.
<v Speaker 5>And if you know what the word somber means, you
<v Speaker 5>can imagine every answer from him reeks of existential thread.
<v Speaker 5>Have you ever seen another old school show called the
<v Speaker 5>Smurfs and you not a grumpy Smurf? That's kind of
<v Speaker 5>how Somber Cat is. When I thought about it, I said,
<v Speaker 5>he kind of seems like grumpy Smurf, everything like weeks
<v Speaker 5>of existential dread. But here's his dichotomy. What he's saying
<v Speaker 5>is actual facts. So he's not just being a pessimist.
<v Speaker 5>He's saying something that if you actually looked at it,
<v Speaker 5>you'd say, well, what he's saying is true. So just
<v Speaker 5>imagine those four cats, Serious Cat, Silly Cat, Special Cat,
<v Speaker 5>and Somber Cat having different conversations and different things happening
<v Speaker 5>inside the house. The series is fantastic. It's funny because
<v Speaker 5>all of them together and these and these being cats
<v Speaker 5>and how silly they are this in general, and me
<v Speaker 5>being able to let my silly side out. Oh, it's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for sharing that with us, which was of
<v Speaker 2>the four cats, and I know there's more to come.
<v Speaker 2>We're closest to the personality of your cat, Jasmine.
<v Speaker 5>You know, that's funny. I never thought about that. I've
<v Speaker 5>never thought about that. Which one let me see. I
<v Speaker 5>would say that it was more between maybe silly cat
<v Speaker 5>and serious cat, because I don't think Jazzmine was a
<v Speaker 5>somber so I would think it would be more between.
<v Speaker 5>She was kind of a hybrid between serious, serious cat
<v Speaker 5>and silly cat. So I would say that that was
<v Speaker 5>a great question. I never thought about that.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I pick him out. I pick him out of there.
<v Speaker 2>So my listeners now though, sometimes something comes out of
<v Speaker 2>left field, and it's just like after doing so many shows,
<v Speaker 2>I kind of can kind of imagine what my audience
<v Speaker 2>would like to know. Also, So now to change a
<v Speaker 2>little bit up to but let's talk about sense of humor.
<v Speaker 2>Why is it more important than ever for us to
<v Speaker 2>keep a sense of humor, especially for pet parents. And
<v Speaker 2>I know that these are challenging times, and I could
<v Speaker 2>get into politics better. Our show is about cast right,
<v Speaker 2>so I'll get too political, although we do. All anybody
<v Speaker 2>listenings is we're recording in August twenty twenty five, knows
<v Speaker 2>that there's a lot going on in the world, a
<v Speaker 2>whole lot of crazy. No matter what you believe, it's
<v Speaker 2>just a whole lot of crazy, right, So I said
<v Speaker 2>that to just set it up. I don't think anybody,
<v Speaker 2>no matter where it can say, oh yeah, everything's perfect
<v Speaker 2>and we're recording. You know we're North America, US. But
<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of crazy other word too. But so
<v Speaker 2>keeping that in mind without going into politics, why is
<v Speaker 2>the sense of humor so important, especially for pet parents.
<v Speaker 5>Well, one thing about just existing itself. Existence itself can
<v Speaker 5>be something that's positive if you look at life a
<v Speaker 5>certain way. You try to be optimistic, you try to
<v Speaker 5>move forward, keep yourself around people, or are kinds awful
<v Speaker 5>in the whole nine. But one thing about life is
<v Speaker 5>it'll do some baseball on you. It'll throw you some curves.
<v Speaker 5>And when it throws you those curves, depending on how
<v Speaker 5>much you built up positivity of your life can be
<v Speaker 5>a determining factor of how well you're able to knock
<v Speaker 5>those curves. Out of the park. If you had a
<v Speaker 5>life to where it's been consistently something negative, then what
<v Speaker 5>happens is makes it more difficult for you to be
<v Speaker 5>able to muster up things inside yourself to be able
<v Speaker 5>to just push through it and smile through all of
<v Speaker 5>the pain. This is why having external things like this
<v Speaker 5>web series, or having external things like television shows, old
<v Speaker 5>school friends or old school Martin, things like that helps
<v Speaker 5>so well, because there are a lot of things in
<v Speaker 5>this world that can really bring down a person's attitude
<v Speaker 5>and mindset when it comes to just existing, because you
<v Speaker 5>end up finding so many people after certain ages they
<v Speaker 5>start looking at life as though they don't even want
<v Speaker 5>to be here anymore because there's so many things that happen.
<v Speaker 5>But then you find these animals that become in essence
<v Speaker 5>careers of the people who are caring for them. You know, dogs, cats, fish,
<v Speaker 5>you know pir keets, things like that. So having these
<v Speaker 5>positive mindset and having these things where you can look
<v Speaker 5>at and make you laugh, these little clips they work.
<v Speaker 5>That's part of the reason why I built my well
<v Speaker 5>wrote rather my books that I wrote. They're called motivational
<v Speaker 5>quotes and jokes. Think about you have motivational quotes in there.
<v Speaker 5>But then you have the actual cats from this series
<v Speaker 5>telling jokes inside of the books. So I've created all
<v Speaker 5>these different things to where people can grab them and
<v Speaker 5>laugh with them, smile color, laugh at the jokes, tell
<v Speaker 5>their friends the jokes, show their friends the videos. Because
<v Speaker 5>I think you said that you watched the first video
<v Speaker 5>I ever did from the nine Cast Two Lives series,
<v Speaker 5>and it's about bringing joy, So I hope it brought
<v Speaker 5>you joy, of course.
<v Speaker 2>Well you know what, I think what you're saying is
<v Speaker 2>right on. And also you know there's I know Hobbrey,
<v Speaker 2>which is like I think that is the hopefully imb
<v Speaker 2>group quoting this correct because I don't have it in
<v Speaker 2>my notes, But Habrey and app O the Habrey is
<v Speaker 2>the human animal bond. And they've even talked about and
<v Speaker 2>there's been discussion on instead of prescriptions for different medications,
<v Speaker 2>prescribing pets. Right, Oh you're down, get yourself a cat,
<v Speaker 2>get yourself. Well here we just talk about cats. Or
<v Speaker 2>get a dog and a cat and have a cat.
<v Speaker 2>So there's something about cats that I think automatically it
<v Speaker 2>brings down blood pressure, it makes you feel better. I
<v Speaker 2>think I've read someplace and I don't know how true
<v Speaker 2>this status that cat parents are generally happier than none
<v Speaker 2>I said cat pet parents. I met parents in general,
<v Speaker 2>mostly dog and cat, but they're happier in general than
<v Speaker 2>households without pets.
<v Speaker 5>And you know what, I think the reason for that
<v Speaker 5>is because humans like not just positive interaction, but they
<v Speaker 5>like the feeling of cuddling with someone. Because they talked
<v Speaker 5>about hugs things like that, releasing certain endorphins and making
<v Speaker 5>people feel a certain way. Well, what these animals do
<v Speaker 5>is they give humans those types of feelings every single
<v Speaker 5>time a human interacts with them. So imagine that. Imagine
<v Speaker 5>anytime that you need a dopamine hit as they called it,
<v Speaker 5>from the hormone that comes up in your body that
<v Speaker 5>makes you feel really good. Anytime you need one of
<v Speaker 5>those hits, you literally just go look at your cat
<v Speaker 5>and then it pick the cat up and put the
<v Speaker 5>cat on your shoulder, or you call your dog and
<v Speaker 5>the dog comes in wagging their tail and you know,
<v Speaker 5>jumping up on you in the whole nine and sometimes
<v Speaker 5>looking you. You know, those things really give people this
<v Speaker 5>influx of just awesomeness and positivity. So if you can
<v Speaker 5>clip that into some type of package. If you can
<v Speaker 5>put that into something where a person can have it
<v Speaker 5>whenever they wish their hand out to grab it, oh man,
<v Speaker 5>then of course you're going to have it to where
<v Speaker 5>a person will be much happier than someone who doesn't
<v Speaker 5>have access to something like that.
<v Speaker 2>Right, But I have a comment. So he said something cuddly. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>only one of my cats is cuddly. He's old happy
<v Speaker 2>Dennis is doing that. He's like sixteen or seventeen. Charlotte
<v Speaker 2>doesn't like me, so then it's Mollie and she doesn't
<v Speaker 2>like to be picked up or cuddled, none of that.
<v Speaker 2>But I have to say though, I was thinking about this,
<v Speaker 2>and I thought, well, my cats aren't really specially cuddly ones,
<v Speaker 2>and Dennis used to be. And then I thought, well,
<v Speaker 2>I get happiness and enjoy when Mollie allows me to
<v Speaker 2>pattern that. It's kind of ridiculous, but you know, she's
<v Speaker 2>looking at me, and then I have to, you know,
<v Speaker 2>touch your head a certain way. Pan't be too hard,
<v Speaker 2>but you know, or rough a certain way, and then
<v Speaker 2>she'll bower her up let me get better. So I
<v Speaker 2>feel like like she's your highness or something, and so
<v Speaker 2>thank you. I get to pat your head and you're happy,
<v Speaker 2>Son felt better? Is that nuts? Is it?
<v Speaker 5>Well? No, because it's a human thing, ironically, because humans
<v Speaker 5>like to accomplish things. So if there's a cat who
<v Speaker 5>doesn't want to spend any time, or two, if it's
<v Speaker 5>a cat that runs every time you come in the room,
<v Speaker 5>you just buy human nature want to overcome that. So
<v Speaker 5>you may start changing the way you walk in the
<v Speaker 5>room instead of walking really fast because cats perceive that
<v Speaker 5>as a potential threat.
<v Speaker 2>So if you.
<v Speaker 5>Walk flore in the room, the cat won't necessarily run.
<v Speaker 5>Maybe you start making little changes like that, and then
<v Speaker 5>next thing you know, the cat's like, oh okay, I
<v Speaker 5>don't think this person is a threat, so kind of
<v Speaker 5>I'm gonna walk in a little bit. And then you
<v Speaker 5>start hearing them make those songs. I think I got them.
<v Speaker 5>I think I think I.
<v Speaker 2>Have to tell you I tried that with Charlotte. And
<v Speaker 2>she'll let me get close, maybe bring a treat out.
<v Speaker 2>Look at her, and then she darts away, and she
<v Speaker 2>darts pretty fast. Considering she looks like an armadillo.
<v Speaker 5>Wow, she must be she's she's serious cat then, and
<v Speaker 5>in this scenario, she's serious cat. That's what she Oh,
<v Speaker 5>she's a mixed attitude. Okay, gotcha.
<v Speaker 2>We call her misunderstood because she was. They're all cats
<v Speaker 2>that found me and even the other two that are
<v Speaker 2>no longer with us, So she was Charlotte was sitting
<v Speaker 2>in front of my front door for four months and
<v Speaker 2>my partner said, oh, look, she wants to come in.
<v Speaker 2>Let's take her in. Well, she's misunderstood because she no
<v Speaker 2>matter what I do with the little box, she still
<v Speaker 2>occasionally has issues. We'll put it like that.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, gotcha.
<v Speaker 2>He's also sneaky cat, so there's a lot. There's a
<v Speaker 2>lot for her. Anyways, we're just about wrapping up. Where
<v Speaker 2>can all of our listeners find out more about you?
<v Speaker 2>And also about hashtag nine Cats two Lives.
<v Speaker 5>Well, they can find out about me. They can just
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<v Speaker 2>Thank you so much, Tim for coming on Cat.
<v Speaker 5>Too on your morning Welcome Anytime.
<v Speaker 2>I want to thank my guest Tim Carthon for coming
<v Speaker 2>on Panitude and sharing all about his new Cat series
<v Speaker 2>and how a sense of humor with your cats is
<v Speaker 2>so important. Thanks to my Cat crew Dennis, Charlotte Molly
<v Speaker 2>that keep me amused all the time. Thanks to my
<v Speaker 2>loyal listeners of Katatude, thank you so much. I appreciate
<v Speaker 2>your listenership very much. And of course thank you to
<v Speaker 2>my producer Mark Winter for working his magic and making
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