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Well, and as if by chance, we have reached the channel's fifth anniversary. But since not everything can be positive, today I'm going to address the things you don't like about me. Hello, I'm Carlos and I'm a veterinarian. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Five years is a long time, a long time for many videos. I don't know how many we've made. And in all of these videos I give you a lot of information so that you know how to take better care of your animal companions. Logically, I don't always like everyone, and I may have said things in a video that you don't agree with. So, as always, we're making a special video to celebrate the anniversary of Happy Pets and Families. Today I'm going to address the things you don't agree with me, or the things you don't like about the channel, or that I've said you don't like about the channel. Well, in general, your comments about what I've said, we put it on Instagram so that you could send us your comments. With all these comments and as a celebration, we are going to review many of the topics that we have already covered on the channel. And Jose will also refresh our memory by showing the clip that the comment refers to. So it will also be useful to see a little bit of the evolution of the channel and of me. You can have a laugh, grab some popcorn. Jose will leave all the videos here in the description box so that you can take a look if you don't remember very well. Well, I won't ramble on any longer and I'll go straight to reading your comments and seeing how you have behaved with me, which I hope you have been very good. The little love bites when you pet her are because she doesn't know how to react to my interaction. My cat specifically sits on my neck to sleep and after purring for a while and falling half asleep, she bites me on the chin. Little love bites. You have to understand these little bites as a way of returning all the love you give them. Although there are loves that kill. Well, I think there is a misconception here because little bites of love which your cat gives you when they are very comfortable with you, are one thing. And it is another thing for your cat to feel overwhelmed when you pet them a lot. In this case, I don't think they are little bites of love or you are not referring to the same thing, because little bites of love are not when your cat bites you when they don't know how to react, but rather when they feel overwhelmed. Little bites of love are small bites that your feline companion gives you when you are petting them, and they have nothing to do with that bite they give you on the chin. Look, I understand that many times I talk about so many topics that in the end we end up mixing up the concepts. You said in a comment that you can have cats if you are allergic to it is not always possible. There are serious cases of asthma. I bought a Siberian cat because I am allergic and that does not make me any less responsible. It seems that those of us who buy are the devil. Not because you are always respectful. Let's not make hasty decisions. Everything will depend on your degree of allergy, and therefore it is absolutely essential that before anything else you go to the doctor and find out very well how it affects you that your cat lives near you. I am the cat doctor and I can only give you some advice so that your allergy is not an impediment to sharing your life with a feline companion. Of course I have not said it, but I think it is implied. Never abandon your cat because you have an allergy. Always find it a home where it can have a full life. Let's see. I think this has caused quite a stir. It even caused some controversy on Twitter. I was in the video about cats and cat allergies. Right, Cat allergies. Well, I was referring to the fact that you could look for alternatives before deciding to get rid of your feline companion. There are people who tell you that they are allergic, and with mild cases of allergies, they also tell you to get rid of the cat. In the video, I explained what alternatives you could look for before making such an abrupt decision. So I'm not saying that you can always do it if you want to, but it is true that on many occasions we can look for alternatives if we are allergic and live with a cat. Obviously, one of the alternatives is to live with a cat that is considered hypoallergenic because it secretes less of the protein that causes asthma in us. But there are many more, and obviously there will be people with very severe allergies who cannot live with a cat. I won't go into that because the allergist will have to tell you. In any case, the message of that video was that not all is lost if you are diagnosed with an allergy and live with a cat. And above all, don't think of abandoning or giving your feline companion away as the first option. We shouldn't Encourage abandonment if there are other alternatives that we can apply. Restrict access to food. If cats are managed well, they don't get fat, they don't eat anxiously. I don't see the problem with having their food available. The only thing I disagree with you about is on demand feeding. All my cats are okay. Free access makes cats fat. I have five and they are all at the same weight. They have easy access to food. Well, I leave the food bowl free for them to eat and none of them get fat. Don't leave food free for cats to eat. Cats eat many times, not just twice a day. I understand rationing food in anxious cats, but mine eats little by little throughout the day. And I have tried many times to explain to many families who come to the clinic that cats don't always have to have food in front of them. In fact, that is the reason why many problems can arise. There are still many people and even many veterinarians who usually recommend that cats be left with food all day long while that you fill their bowl in the morning, that you leave it there, and that they will self medicate. I always recommend that you feed your feline companion in small doses spread throughout the day. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, what a mess this has caused. Let's see. I am simply proposing my point of view and I do not think it is either the best or the worst. It is simply one of them because you do not know beforehand if your feline companion is one of those greedy cats, one of those cats that eat a lot, and if they are going to ration it or not. It is more difficult to fight with an already obese cat to lose weight than to do things that prevent the cat from gaining weight. And one of the tools to combat obesity is to give them food in portions. That is why I recommend it, to avoid greater problems. Now, obviously, if your feline companion is doing well with the food bowl always full and he gradually rations it out, well, that's it, no problem. Also, this is the recommendation that the International Society of Feline Medicine is currently making. I mean, I'm not the one saying it, they are. They know much more about cats than I do and everyone can do what they want. Amount of wet food. My vet recommended that I give him less. Not every day. When you come to the office with your cats, I always recommend that you give him at least one serving a day. Always of wet food, soft food, canned food. I always say the same thing here. Whatever your vet says is the law because he knows your cat perfectly, much better than I Do. Normally, we should give all cats one serving a day because that's also what the experts say. However, if your vet recommends something else in your case, and this applies to anything I tell you in a video as opposed to what your vet tells you, you should always listen to your vet because I am speaking for a general group of cats. But obviously there are specific and special cases such as that of your feline companion. And obviously even each vet has their own opinion based on their experience, what they have studied, etc. I always say the barb diet is bad. I personally do not like the bar diet because the arguments I have given you against it weigh much more than the arguments I have given you in favor. If you are choosing the Barb diet, I am not saying that you are feeding your dog poorly or that anything bad will happen to your dog because it should not. I am simply telling you that in my clinical experience there are cases in which it does not work so well and that is why I do not like to recommend it. I don't know why I had a hunch that in this video we were going to talk about the barf diet. Look, there are many people who defend the barf diet above all else. At no time did I say that the barf diet was bad. I simply said that you should be aware that feeding your canine or feline companion a barr diet had some risks because many bacteria are not killed by freezing. There are some that are. For example, Toxoplasma, which is not a bacteria but is also found in meat, is killed by freezing. Campylobacter is killed by freezing. But there are some bacteria, such as Salmonella, that remain alive and kicking after you have frozen the meat. So if you are going to give it to your cat, at least be aware that there are some risks. And of course know what your cat's specific needs are in terms of its diet. Do not be guided by an Internet tutorial because they will not know what your cat's needs are. They will tell you in general terms, you should consult a veterinarian to design a specific diet for your feline companion's needs. The best food for an animal is an ultra processed food full of unhealthy additives in parentheses. Feed, feed, care, kibble, balanced food, food in general. A good feed must first and foremost have animal ingredients for both dogs and cats. If in this type of feed you find some type of by product among all that, well, as long as the first one is not there, we could consider it acceptable because we understand that it has A lower proportion than the main ingredient. What would be a bad feed by all accounts? Well, if the first thing you find, as in many supermarket and many low quality ones, is cereals, because they are giving our animal companions a lot of calories of those nutrients that I mentioned at the beginning, they are filling a lot with ingredients that for them are not as good as if they were of animal origin. That is why we should leave this type of feed aside when choosing the best food for our companions. When did I say that precisely? In the video on how to identify the best food for your animal companion. I told you that if it had a lot of additives, you shouldn't opt for that food. Obviously it's processed food, but you have to identify the ingredients on the label very well to know which is the best option for your cat or dog. So no, I don't prefer a feed full of ultra processed additives and all that stuff over a natural diet. But of course now we have to define what a natural diet is. But we'll leave that for another chapter. I adore you, but I don't agree that dry food helps clean teeth, that cats should eat dry food and that dry food cleans their teeth. Advantages of dry food. The first, which is very important is that it is beneficial for their teeth. Well, it's because of the action of the dry food itself on the teeth when the cat is eating and has to chew and bite those grains of kibble, kibble or what I always say, balanced food. In the end it ends up dragging the plaque that is on the surface of the teeth. Obviously this is not the only care you have to take for your feline companion's mouth, but dry food has that effect. It's true. I hate it when you say kibble or kibble, which I know is not your thing. Well, in this video you will, because I'm repeating it. Kibble, kibble, balanced food, or whatever each person calls it in their area. Kibble, kibble, balanced food. What I always say kibble, kibble, well, balanced food. What? You know, I always say kibble, kibble. You know, the usual. I'm sorry, but there are many people who when I say kibble, don't know what kibble is because in their countries it is not said like that. So as I am aware that our videos reach many countries where people speak very differently, I have to say it because otherwise my video messages will be filled with things like what is feed? Or more ironic messages like I think therefore I am. That's why I mention all the names for Cat and dog food. And let it be known that according to the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, I think that if it is animal food, I don't think that vegetable juice made from almonds or other seeds prepared at home is harmful to cats. Well, it's really a drink that you're giving them as an accessory. If they don't need it, why are you going to give it to them? You might be increasing the calories and in the end what the cat ends up doing is getting tired. This is also one of the topics that has caused a lot of controversy. I think it was more on the secondary channel than on the main one. But anyway, I also expected it to come up in these types of questions. I have never said at any time that vegetable milks are harmful to our feline companions. Obviously if they have sugar, gum, I don't know how much things that our cats probably shouldn't eat, it wouldn't be the most appropriate thing for us to feed them either. From there to it being harmful, there's a very long way to go, especially if you make it at home. But I always say the same thing. Why does your cat need to drink almond milk? Your cat will prefer almond milk to water. The cat will have to drink water to stay hydrated instead of almond milk. Because in the end it's 98% water and 2% almonds. Why would you give that to your cat? What I mean is that this doesn't give your feline companion any advantage over drinking water. And that's why I say it doesn't make any sense to give it to them. You can't mix feeds. And if you do change, do it gradually. My cat has always eaten several feeds at the same time. I give her one each time and even mix them. Thank you. From here we're going to start making the change gradually. On day one and day two, we're going to give her 75% of her old feed and the remaining 25% of her new feed. And of course, during these first two days, you're going to have to observe your animal companions behavior very carefully. Well, because in this case your cat isn't following one of the premises I mentioned in that video about how to switch from one feed to another. In that video I mentioned that your cat was very used to always eating the same type of food. And that's why you have to make the change gradually to avoid problems, especially when it comes to going to the bathroom. Because if we make a very abrupt change, they tend to get diarrhea. If Your cat is eating one type of feed every day. It's normal for her to be used to eating different types of food. But as I understand that not everyone at home is going to have five different bags of dry food open to give to their feline companion each day of the week and that they are used to eating everything. That is why I tell you that you should make the change gradually. In any case, it is very important, especially for those cats that have a restricted diet due to a health problem, that we do not mix the feeds. Because there are people who come to me and say, no, my cat has a kidney problem, but since he does not like his specific food for his kidneys, I mix it with another food or different kibble and so he eats it very well. Well, in this case we are not giving him the food he needs and the food is not having the effect to improve the cat's health. I do not agree with you that you do not think that cats should be bathed. My parents insist on bathing meal only because sometimes he rolls around on the rustic floor. I, broadly speaking, am against bathing cats in my practice. I will continue to recommend that cats not be bathed and I will do so convinced that it is the best thing for their health. Well, these two comments go together because I'm not against bathing our cats at all times. Obviously, if your feline companion gets dirty, if they go to the litter box and have diarrhea and come out covered in dirt, if you have suddenly taken them somewhere and they come back covered in dust, straw, or other things that you want to remove from their fur because they make it dirty, then in these cases you should bathe them. What I said in that video, and perhaps what was not fully understood, is that we do not have to bathe our feline companions as a matter of course. We do not have to bathe them once a week or once a day so that they smell like roses, because the cat has to smell like the cat, which is also what they like to smell. Many times we put fragrances on them with shampoo to make them smell really good, and the cat does not like that at all. If they could roll around somewhere to get that smell off, they would. And I stick to my idea that you shouldn't bathe your cat unless it's absolutely necessary. And before that, if you can wipe them down with a pet specific wipe because of the ph of their skin, all the better. If I had human babies, I would like to let them sleep with my cats. The cat may have gained a lot of trust with the baby and become very attached to them and want to lie down very close to the baby. This can even make it difficult for the baby to breathe because if the cat falls asleep on top of them, the child obviously won't be able to breathe properly, which is not at all desirable. Also, if the cat lies on top of their body, it may make it difficult for their chest and lungs to move. Well, this is obviously a personal decision. I told you in that video to simply keep in mind that when a baby is very young, they can't move as freely as they would like. If the cat, for whatever reason, makes it difficult for the baby to move, there may be some kind of problem. Logically, this is a general consideration that you have to take as advice that I am giving you, not as an obligation. Then each person can do what they want. Of course, and be careful. I understand that this was misinterpreted a bit because I received several comments from people who thought that I was saying that it was bad for the cat to be with the baby. And nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it is good for the baby to gradually interact with the cat because that also helps them develop fewer diseases, as has been shown in some studies. Well, I think I agree with everything except that I need to cut my cat's nails, that nails should not be cut. I have three cats and I have to trim the tips every week. People ask me what I think about cutting cats nails. The truth is that I am completely against it. Your cat needs its nails. Please do not cut its nails. This also caused a lot of controversy back then, and we had to make two videos, two videos for the main channel because people literally jumped on me. In the second video, I had to qualify the first one a little because people didn't understand it. And I realized that perhaps there had been a communication problem on my part. Of course, we already talked about the Le Pentida. You only have to cut your feline companion's nails at the very front, literally the tip, so that they don't get caught in fabrics, your bed, the sofa, etc. If you only cut the tip, even if you have to go over them every week, you're doing it right. And in fact you're agreeing with what I'm saying. If you cut them more and do it so that they don't scratch your sofas, you're not doing it right because your cat needs to mark with their little claws. And that's what I said at the time, and it was misinterpreted. The first time. The second time. I'm seeing it right now, and I hope that with this clarification, it will be completely clear. Probably not. Yeah. Hello, Carlos. I've read and watched videos that talk about positive reinforcement when the cat does something right. Just like they say that when it does something wrong, we should ignore it. If my cat scratches the sofa, it bites the cushions like there's no tomorrow. It bites everything. For me, the first one, how can I ignore it? There's another form of punishment called negative punishment. Negative punishment is a way for a cat to learn because through an action of yours, you're going to take something away from the cat. For example, you're going to take away your attention. If your cat knocks on your door at night and you don't pay attention to it, little by little, it will learn with punishment because you're not giving it the attention which is what it wants, by knocking on your door. Okay? Okay. It's one thing to ignore your feline companion when he's demanding your attention, and quite another to ignore him when he's biting your arm and causing a huge wound. Obviously, in the second case, you shouldn't ignore him, and you should redirect the action he's doing to your arm to something else. For example, throwing a ball at him so he'll leave you alone. What you shouldn't do is start yelling or shouting at him or scolding him, because that's not good for your cat, especially because it's not going to make your cat change his behavior. If your cat bites you because he doesn't feel safe in your presence, yelling at him will make him feel even more insecure, and this type of slightly aggressive reaction may be triggered. It's counterproductive, and that's why you shouldn't do it. Not for any other reason. Well, in the first videos, you said to sterilize cats at seven or eight months, and then you lowered it to five or six. At what age can a cat or dog be spayed? Either a dog or a cat, or a. Or a cat. It doesn't matter if they are male or female. And this age is more or less between 7 and 10 months of age, when the cat is already sexually mature. And that happens from around six months of age. Cat medicine is not mathematical. Okay, next question. No, let's see. Between seven, eight months, five or six months. There are only a few months difference. Obviously, it will depend on the degree of maturity of your feline companion. There are some cats that go into heat a little earlier because heat does not only depend on age, but also, for example, on light. And so if your cat is going into heat earlier and it is better to spay him before the first heat, that is why we have to bring it forward. But I do have to agree with you on one thing. It is true that I have given several pieces of information. It's one thing to ensure that when we castrate our feline companion, it doesn't pose a risk to their life and that it's safe. In this case, the guidelines are to do it when the cat is a little younger, between five and six months old. It's another thing entirely when it might be more convenient, depending on your cat's level of development. Lately, ethologists are recommending that we castrate our cats a little later so that they have developed their behaviors a little more, and this doesn't cause them problems in the future. So what behavior experts say is one thing, and what veterinarians in general physiologists say is quite another. Well, I'd also like to take this opportunity to tell you that in the five years that we've been running the channel, it's also very likely that the scientific evidence has changed and I'm always learning more and changing my way of thinking. In the end, it's also possible that I've made a mistake in some video and given a completely different figure. But in general, I want you to understand that neither veterinary medicine nor human medicine is mathematics. And that is why sometimes it is recommended a little earlier and other times a little later. And, well, I am delighted to have received this comment because it has allowed me to clarify everything. And so I believe that there are no doubts left. Needing a litter box plus a cat. I have two cats. I bought three litter boxes and they only used one. Your theory of N1, which is great for those who live in a palace. The rule of n 1, n number of cats that live with this at home. And you always have to add one more litter box. In other words, if two cats live in our house, we should have at least three litter boxes. Well, let's see. The theory of N1 litter boxes should only be applied when cats do not get along. When cats are not going to use the same litter box. Well, obviously when we live with a couple of cats, if we live with 11, just one litter box is not going to work. We should have more. Logically, the idea of providing one more litter box for the number of cats will come in handy when they fight over that litter box and don't get along. If you see that your feline companions get along, one litter box if two live together, or two litter boxes if three live together may be enough. If we don't live in a palace. I think that in any average sized house you can have two litter boxes and also have enough space for them to be in two different parts. Washing the litter box once every three or four days. I clean their pee and poop every day, but washing the litter box itself with soap and water once every two weeks or a month, and that's it? Well, no, you have to clean the tray every three or four days. Since your cat can still use the litter, you take it out, put it in a bucket, in a bag, clean the tray and put it back in later. Well, obviously what I recommend is more or less to maintain hygiene. If the maintenance you do to your litter box at home is enough to keep it clean for a long time, then that's fine. It's fine to do it every two or three weeks or every month. But above all, we have to think about our feline companion before our own comfort. And above all, there are some cats that when the litter box doesn't smell very good, even if the litter has been changed, they stop doing things in there and start doing things all over the house. That's why I told you to clean the tray once a week. But everyone has to use their own criteria. Not in a video, but one day. I asked you a question and you didn't answer me. I want you to answer my message. I just want you to answer my question. Official STATEMENT it is humanly impossible for us to respond to all the messages we receive on the one hand, because we receive so many and we just can't. I mean, there just wouldn't be enough time in the day. But on the other hand, as I always say, this is not a veterinary clinic. I can't find out what's happening to your feline companion just from a message. And if you have any kind of problem that needs urgent treatment, you have to go with him to the vet. I make general videos so that they work for everyone, but obviously I don't know the specific problem that your feline companion has, and I'm not going to be able to find out from a message that you send me. And that on the one hand, for everything else, as the MasterCard ad said, for everything else, when we receive a message that we think may be of interest to the rest of the people who watch the channel, we select it and answer it as a question on the secondary channel or we make a video on the main channel. So of course we answer a lot of questions from a lot of people throughout the year. But in any case, and we go back to point one, it's impossible for us to answer them all. I'm sorry, forgive me. It's just that with your videos you encourage me to have more kittens, but with the last one, I lost my job. Everything for the vet, including the vaccines I mentioned before, the visits to the clinic, the emergency visits, the surgeries, everything, everything, everything in a cat's Life comes to €755. All this makes a total of around €629.24 in a year and throughout your cat's life. And hold on tight, because this is the highest figure I'm going to give you in the entire video. You're going to invest between litter, dry food, wet food and treats. Well, that's why I made the video. No, no, not for you, but because we have to think about this money issue before deciding to adopt another cat. We love living with our feline companions, but we don't think about the financial consequences of living with more than one cat or with just one cat. And we have to think about that. That's the first thing. So if you already live with a cat and you see that you can afford to live with another cat, go ahead and adopt it. But if you have the slightest doubt that you can afford it or can afford the expenses involved, I recommend that you don't do it. Not to mention that another of the intentions of the video is to make people think about all this before adopting a cat, so as not to encourage indiscriminate ownership, and that this indirectly ends up translating into abandonment. Regarding the last video, the average salary in Spain, I don't know whether to cry or throw myself off a bridge. As of today, in July 2022, the average salary in Spain is €1751 per month and the minimum wage is €1050 per month. If we convert it into dollars. To make it a little easier for you if you're not very good with euros, the average salary is approximately €1,782 and the minimum wage is €1,069. Regarding the average salary, I have to tell you that I consulted official statistics to provide comparable figures. In fact, the ine, the National Institute of Statistics of Spain, states that the average salary per worker is €25,165.51 in 2020, which, if you divide it by 14 payments, comes out to the €1,700 that I gave it is another matter that we are living in a reality that is different from that given by the statistics. But logically, when I make a video, I cannot base it on what I think, but on verifiable data that is published by official sources. I do not agree with the price of sterilization because they charged me €400. This operation costs differently depending on whether it is a male or a female. Males cost around €90 and females around €150. Well, in you have animals that have specific rations, it is more expensive per year. If we consider that approximately 10kg of cat food costs us around €54.60 and that our cat will eat between two and three bags a year, the total cost is €131.04 each year. And these cans have an average price of approximately $0.97 per 80 grams, which is the usual size of the can. So if we give him one can a day, over the course of a year, we will have spent approximately €354.20. My vet's estimate is more expensive, yours is cheaper. I couldn't finish the video. I think the price of keeping a cat in the video, you've been very high. The total cost of keeping your feline companion throughout his life, including vet fees, the equipment you're going to have at home and what he eats, food, litter, etc. Is €15,788 with 76 Timothy's. And regarding this video that we recently published about how much it costs to live with your cat, if you notice, there are people who tell me that I was too high and people who tell me that I was too low when I made the video. I took high prices, low prices, medium prices, and at the end I did an average calculation to tell you more or less how much it could cost you. Obviously there will be variations, but this was an awareness video so that you would get the idea that living with a cat entails expenses and they are not exactly small. And that is something that you should always consider before adopting one. Introducing them little by little. Okay, but I was lucky. I did it on the first day. Keep in mind that the process that we are going to follow with Jackie is sequential. That is to say, we are going to have to develop steps little by little to adapt Dana's coexistence with him. Imagine that you are your cat, that you are the king of the house. And right now an intruder arrives and is brought into your home, you don't really know why, and that he starts competing with you for all that how would you feel? The first thing is to stop the pressure and the desire. You have to let them fly and get to know each other under the door. When you start to see that under the door, they start to get curious about getting to know the other cat. They start to get fond of each other or even start to paw at each other as if they wanted to start playing with each other. It is a good indicator that this moment is approaching. Well, you played Russian roulette in precisely a Russian roulette in which your head was not in the middle. Because if the two cats had not gotten along, the problem would have been for both cats and for you. It could be that because of that somewhat reckless act, I have to tell you off a bit. They would never have tolerated each other in life, and that could have made living together a torment. If this is not done well, it could lead to you saying they can't be together. I have to give this cat away. And you'll have to give it to a friend, a family member, or in some cases, not to mention yours. That other cat could even end up abandoned. That's why we have to be aware that introducing them is not something capricious. You may have been very lucky, as you say in the comment, but if you hadn't been lucky today, have you stopped to think about it? That process that you've already gone through is irreversible or it will be very difficult to reverse. And that's why it's better to be safe than sorry. If you go through the process and realize that it goes too quickly, great. Better for you. But never risk introducing them all at once. I'm traumatized by the video about the safety measures to prevent cats or kittens from falling. First of all, when it comes to cat proofing the environment, the first thing you need to think about is how to protect the windows so that your cat can't jump out of them and suffer what we know as parachute cat syndrome. The net is a bit flexible and a cat's head can fit through a very small gap. If its head fits, I assure you, its whole body can fit through and your cat could fall. Then the frame has to be very well secured to the wall because if not, your cat could give it a push, the frame could fall and your cat could fall with it. Well, but first make sure that your cat can't fit through the gaps and doesn't do like Totoro. The downside of mosquito nets is that they're not the most resistant option by far. The cat can tear them with its nails. In fact, I have come across many cats that had mosquito nets installed and thought their windows were completely secure, but who have ended up falling because they have seen something behind the window torn, the mosquito net made a hole and fallen. Yes, but the thing is that when we work in the clinic, we realize that the lack of security measures, or if the security is not adequate, ends up taking its toll. It may not be the case for you, you may not know anyone who has experienced this, but all it takes is for a cat to fall and get injured, or have a fracture in its legs, or have something that, for example, causes problems for the rest of its life. For us to recommend that as a precautionary measure, you always put up nets and mosquito nets, as I told you in that video. Of course, sometimes we have the other side of the coin. People tell me my cat goes out onto the terrace without a net to watch birds and nothing happens. I don't like the nets and the bugs. Well, I would be devastated if your cat went out onto the terrace without a net. In fact, last week I saw a case of a shelter that had rescued a kitten that had been abandoned and had fallen from a great height, had fractures, and that's why they had abandoned her, because they couldn't afford the operations. We didn't make it up that cats fall out of windows and off terraces. In fact, it's something that happens very frequently at the clinic. We see it almost every day, if not every day, every week there are many cats that fall out of windows and off terraces, even though they are very used to being outside. So, please, in these cases, it's always better to be safe than sorry. And your cat can't decide about its own safety. That's what you're here for. You have to be a bit more thoughtful. And instead of not liking the aesthetics, you should think first about the safety of your feline companion, because your cat doesn't know the repercussions of falling. But you do that by ignoring my cat. It would stop scratching the door and meowing at night. And finally, if none of this works, close the door to your room, the living room or wherever you are. I know this is a drastic solution, but this way you will physically prevent your cat from grabbing your feet or hands. And when all else fails, you have to take these types of solutions. In this step, I have to warn you that your cat is not going to get used to it from the first day, and that at first it may try to scratch the door or scratch to get to where you are getting your cat used to it is a process that will take quite a while. So don't despair. Well, again, I have to tell you that this is not mathematics. There are some cats that can be a little more stubborn than others. Generally, if you ignore your cat when it tries to wake you up at night, it ends up working. Your willpower also plays a role here. Think about whether you have gone long enough without giving it the necessary attention. That surely works for most cats. If you find that this isn't working for you, we have other tricks that I'll leave you with. Videos linked in the box below the aluminum foil trick on the door. Don't let the cat go outside. I know the risks and I'm careful. But if she goes outside, I. I let her. I see her happy and free. Then one day, my parents forgot to close the door and she ran away. And then she was able to go outside from the garden and she wasn't used to everything outside. The noise, the cars, the people. Then she suddenly ran into a neighbor of mine who was walking her dog, and the dog scared the cat. And the cat. Well, instead of confronting the dog, because logically she was afraid of it, ran away and started to flee. She crossed the road with such bad luck that at that very moment a car was passing by and ran over her. And it was the neighbor who was walking her dog who approached her, approached my parents and told them what had happened. And of course, at that time my parents couldn't help the cat because it had already died. After what I've experienced, what I've seen, I can't tell you that your cat can safely go outside. A cat that lives in our house is not adapted to that type of environment. Not to mention other things like the fact that it faces diseases on the street, such as immunodeficiency, which, as you know, has no vaccine, fleas and ticks, or that it could catch a mouse or a bird and that could give it parasites that could end up affecting you. So to prevent all this, why don't we leave cats at home? And as I've also told you, I've had traumatic experiences with cats that went outside. So I. Don't move, please. The best place for your cat is your home, not you, Jose, with leaving underwear for them to use in the bed. I'm going to add a point from Jose here, and that is that he puts used underwear in the ocean. My God, how disgusting. Please, I don't want to know anything about that. Please. If you do it, tell me in the comments. Okay, I understand. That left me traumatized too. That's it. I understand you. We're going to set up a psychological support number for people who haven't gotten over that image and we're going to start a class action lawsuit. I support you. It almost ruined my channel. I still think I'm right that cats shouldn't use the human toilet. I've taught my kitty and it's the best thing. In recent years, it's become very fashionable for us to try to teach our cats to use the toilet. In fact, many families are increasingly considering it. This is precisely one of those things that pops up from time to time and that denaturalizes our animal companions. That's why I'm not very much in favor of it. The best for whom? It seems like I'm a bit touchy because I don't accept being told that I'm not being agreed with. Right. But you have to think about it. What's best for whom is what's best for you or what's best for your cat? I don't know if you've seen your cat much happier or if using your bathroom has brought her some kind of benefit in her day to day life, but if it hasn't brought her any kind of benefit, then perhaps it's best for you. Obviously, you may not spend money on pebbles or sand for the litter box now, and that may have a certain ecological pass, but having your cat go up to the VC to do her business brings some other kind of benefit to the cat itself. Or perhaps we are humanizing her too much. I am in favor of maintaining that type of custom if the cat does her business in an area of sand and needs to dig to cover it. Because they don't do it on a whim. They do it because physiologically that is the ideal place for it. So why would we change a cat's behavior that has taken centuries and centuries to adapt to just because of our whim? It doesn't make sense. That's why I still think it's better to use its litter box. It's not that I disagree, but I was shocked by the idea of vaccinating your cat every two years because Mebet says once you'll need to revaccinate your cat with a trivalent feline vaccine the first year after it was given to your cat as a kitten. And then you can space it out a bit more and give it to your cat every two or three years. You'll need to get the leukemia vaccine the first year after it was given to your cat as a kitten, and then you can generally space it out to every two years. Of course, this is just a recommendation, but it can vary depending on the risk or the type of vaccine. You should always listen to your veterinarian about when you should re vaccinate your cat. Well, it depends on the risk. There are some diseases that our feline companions are more likely to come into contact with, and that's why it's more important to vaccinate them more frequently. But if your cat doesn't go outside and doesn't have contact with other cats, feline medicine experts do recommend that this vaccine be spaced out. And I remind you that I make general videos with recommendations that can be useful to everyone. Then each case must be assessed by the veterinarian who knows the cat. In this case, the video about jealous cats. Yes, they are jealous, but they didn't see certain types of jealous behavior that, for example, do develop in dogs. And this led them to think that either cats don't show jealousy exactly the same as dogs, or they are less jealous. But then are they jealous or not? Well, the study says that there are signs that they are and signs that they aren't. Well, it's one thing for you to think that they are jealous. In fact, in the video, I did say that depending on what cats could see, they could get a little closer to people if they saw that their hand was being fought over. Jealousy is ultimately a human feeling, and we can't always extrapolate human feelings to our feline companions. It's one thing for them to be a bit territorial and claim everything within that territory, and another thing entirely for us to call that jealousy. The only thing I've missed on your channel is more videos about our canine pets. Cats are adorable, but there are also mixed families of cats and dogs on the main channel. We have an audience that, for whatever reason, has grown more towards the public and people who live with cats. So the videos we have that talk about cats have a much larger audience than the videos we have that talk about dogs. So far, so good. The thing is that when we upload a video that talks about dogs, YouTube suddenly realizes and thinks that the video is of less interest. YouTube doesn't care whether the video is about dogs or the video is about cats. It simply cares that the video has an audience and that it is more or less in line with the average audience that we have. So when YouTube suddenly realizes that the video is less interesting and that fewer people are watching it, what it does is show it to far fewer people, that's harming the channel in general. If it turns out that YouTube suddenly decides that the channel is going to show it to far fewer people, in the end, what we're achieving is that the goal of the videos and the goal of why I'm here trying to help you isn't being fulfilled. Oh, the dog thing. The truth is that for me, it was hard to stop making videos exclusively for dogs because I know that there are families who live with cats and dogs and who would be interested in this advice. But I think that YouTube's algorithm rules. To begin with, dog videos are shown to far fewer people, which sinks the channel. And this ends up meaning that the following week you probably won't know that we've released a new video because YouTube simply decides not to let you know. So since we see that in the end that's detrimental to the channel, we've decided not to make videos exclusively for dogs. However, I have to say that the idea that we don't make videos for dogs isn't entirely true. We make videos that can be applied to both cats and dogs, regardless of the fact that Jose often only shows a cat in the thumbnail, but I mean it in the video. Hey, this also applies if you live with a canine companion, and this doesn't just happen with dog videos. YouTube's algorithm is very clever, and sometimes we make a video of about cats that you might not be that interested in that ends up ruining the channel in the following weeks. That's why we have to look for the content that might interest you the most so that the channel can continue. Because if YouTube shows us when we make a video, this channel is ultimately not viable. It doesn't make sense. And we've received other comments that Jose has seen and put them in a folder called Random, which I'm not sure what it contains. It scares me a little. Huh? I could find almost anything in there. Huh? Well, I don't know. Let's take a look first. Will you be filming outdoors again? Are we outdoors, Right? Well, yes, we've filmed outdoors again, but it's true that we can't film outdoors as much as we want because we live in a place where it rains quite a bit and sometimes the weather doesn't allow us to be outside. Not even if you see light coming out the window and you say, wow, look, it's sunny. Why aren't they in the park? It could be that it rained the day before and I, for example, can't be in the park because I'm wet. That's why we've been making more videos indoors lately. But as soon as we have the chance, like today, we head outdoors. I love your videos, but I don't like backgrounds with candles and lights and lots of light in your face. Well, the interior designer is Jose, so I'm going to leave you a suggestion box so you can tell him what the backgrounds for the videos should be like. He's also responsible for when we record in the parks, making sure everything looks really nice behind me, because he's the one with the artistic vision. Anyway, let's take note, because we've recently changed sets. So if you haven't seen the latest videos, you'll see that there are no backgrounds with candles or weird lights, but your face is still very illuminated. Well, because this face needs to be illuminated. That's the part that interests you. You're a geek. The Wii U, Toro, Super Mario. But hey, I am too. So I don't think it's something you don't like about me, because if you're one too, you can't accuse me of anything. Well, yes, man, I'm a bit of a geek. But it's also true that we started to put Totoro out of necessity on the channel, and in the end he stayed. Geekdom has brought us all something positive, a personality as strong as Totoro's, which no one knew he had. You ramble a lot. You get quite distracted. It makes me laugh sometimes, but it's kind of to the point. These donors can either be animals that collaborate with the veterinary clinic where, for example, the surgery you mentioned is being performed, or they can be animals that, as I said, collaborate with centers or blood banks whose blood is stored in the blood bank so that it can be used whenever needed. It's true, right? And I would go on about it even more if Jose weren't behind the camera, because you can't imagine how many times he interrupts me to say, come on, you're just getting carried away and not getting to the point. After all, I really like explaining things, because explaining things. And on top of that, there are misunderstandings and people don't quite understand what I'm trying to say in the video. Just imagine if I didn't explain it and if I said everything like that. As if things. There's a French cat magazine called Meow. Hi. Here I come with Meow. I want to find out the latest gossip in the cat world. Come on. Look, a cat personality test. What do you mean? I'm a box Cat, this is useless. This is just a scam. Well, they should pay me the intellectual property rights because they probably came out of it. After seeing my great magazine, Meow, and all the articles it contained. I came up with a cover there with very, very interesting articles. Of course, it was a joke, and I had no idea that a magazine called Meow existed. But, hey, you know that we like to add a bit of fun to our videos so that not all the videos are the same. Otherwise they'd be very boring. Who's more of a tyrant, Jose or Totoro? Totoro is probably a troublemaker. Greetings from Argent. What? Oh, no. Give him food. Oh, okay, yes, but what's the point of you feeding your feline companion? Your feline companion. Okay, okay. But what's the point of you telling your feline companion to be fat? No, man. So you don't get bored. Leave the last few words you repeat until the end because otherwise it'll turn off even your mother. Okay. Hey, you've explained it like crap. You said that very recently. Yes. Oh, so fake. Okay. To her face. It's boring. You should know that this way you lose all credibility in the world. No, no, no, no, no, no. Thanks, Carlos, for this. Out. Forgive me, but we have to record Jose is forcing me. Well, even though it may seem like a lie, I think Jose is much more of a tyrant than Totoro. I would love for you to see a day of filming so you could see that Totoro stays by his side in diapers. Well, in the end, I think you've behaved pretty well. We've been celebrating the fifth anniversary, but since the video has been so long, I think we've already reached the sixth. Anyway, I hope you had fun in that. Well, that you got to know us a little better and that you'll continue to follow us for another year or the ones to come. And that's it. Thank you very much for following the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Thank you very much to those people who have been following us since day one and since the first year that we've been watching you in the comments and we know that you're still there. And to all those people who have been joining little by little, and since it's been so long, we're going to cut it short. See you in the next video. You're always, always respectful. Always. Oh, well, then I still say the same thing. Well, you put this here and you do it. The big bumblebee up there. Come on. What I'm telling you is not to laugh. You've put me under the hibiscus so that the bumblebees can come and sting me. I think I take care little croquette balanced. You know, people thinking that I was saying that the cat. That comment is not very well expressed very much in these cases. Giving a little more sauce. Well, now I've been saying it like this and throwing that to direct a little. It's okay, it's okay. No, you're not getting wet now. Okay, you have to make me focus again. It's just that all the water has splashed on me and now the fountain is working. When did I recommend that? Leave me below in the comment. What is the video where I said it and the exact minute. Maybe I'm challenging people. My mouth is very hot. Bad people. Yes. Oh, now that I speak badly of you. It's no use to you. No, I only talk about my private life after paying for a good exclusive and having it featured in a good gossip magazine. Yes, it can be on the COVID like Vikki feed. But that later closes many doors for me, especially with this audience that in the end tells me that I'm very handsome.