You know, it's amazing.

你知道，這太神奇了。

I just forget how badly I need this, you know?

我只是忘了我有多需要這個，你知道嗎？

Just get away and stop thinking about everything, everything, everything.

離開這裡，不要再去想所有的事情，所有的事情，所有的事情。

Hmm, I wonder if the cats are okay.

不知道貓咪們還好嗎？

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Yeah, I'm sure they're fine.

是的，我相信他們很好。

Ah.

啊。

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You know what's funny?

你知道最有趣的是什麼嗎？

When I think about it, I always start things with, you guys have been asking me this question all the time, and let me give you the answer.

當我思考這個問題時，我總是以 "你們一直在問我這個問題，讓我來告訴你們答案吧 "作為開場白。

Not this time.

這次不會了。

This is one of those things that nobody really thinks about until I reference it, whether I'm talking to my clients, it gets referenced all the time.

在我和客戶交談之前，沒人會真正想到這一點。

Anyway, I'm talking about what I think you should do when you're going away from your home, whether you're going on vacation or just visiting someone for a few days or whatever it is.

總之，我想說的是，當你離開家的時候，不管是去度假，還是去看望別人幾天，或者是其他什麼事情，我覺得你都應該做些什麼。

I have this thing in my head that I go, you know, I wouldn't do this, and you could get away with this.

我腦子裡一直在想，你知道，我不會這麼做，而你卻可以這麼做。

This would be fine.

這樣就可以了。

This is ideal.

這是理想狀態。

And every time I say it, everyone has the same reaction.

每次我說這句話時，每個人的反應都是一樣的。

They're like, oh, yeah, yeah, I didn't think about that.

他們會說，哦，是的，是的，我沒想到這一點。

So I'm just, you know, getting ahead of the whole game here.

所以，我只是，你知道，在這裡得到了整個遊戲的前面。

It is time for you to take a vacation.

現在是你休假的時候了。

So what leads me to put things in the absolutely no, the yeah, this is fine, and this is ideal buckets?

那麼，是什麼導致我把事情放在 "絕對不行"、"可以"、"這樣很好 "和 "這樣很理想 "這三個桶裡呢？

When you think about what it is that gives cats their mojo, their confidence, and what robs them of it if they don't have it.

想想是什麼給了貓魔力和自信，如果沒有，又是什麼剝奪了它們的魔力和自信。

So the first thing is the three R's, and that is routine, ritual, rhythm, a sense of an ironclad circadian rhythm that cats are just tied to.

是以，第一件事就是 "三R"，即常規、儀式、節奏，一種貓與之緊密相連的鐵一般的晝夜節律感。

They do not thrive on anarchy.

它們不會在無政府狀態下茁壯成長。

They thrive on the repetition.

他們在重複中茁壯成長。

The second thing that gives mojo is the perception of confident ownership of territory.

其次，"魔力 "是一種自信擁有領地的感覺。

Without that, they also suffer from anti-mojo.

如果不這樣做，他們也會受到反魔咒的影響。

And the third thing is relationship.

第三點是關係。

It's not just the stuff that gives them their three R's.

讓他們獲得三個 R 的不僅僅是這些東西。

It is relationship.

這就是關係。

And I know sometimes it's in the back of our heads.

我知道，有時我們的腦海中也會有這樣的想法。

So there we have it, the three buckets.

這就是三個桶。

Again, the three R's, territorial confidence, and relationship.

同樣，三個 R、領土自信和關係。

All right, so let's get to the how to leave your cats at home when you're going somewhere else buckets.

好了，讓我們開始討論如何在去別的地方時把貓咪留在家裡吧。

The first one is the no.

第一個是 "不"。

Let's just cut to the chase.

我們就開門見山吧。

Not great, Bob.

不是很好，鮑勃

If you think that going away for a few days, even 24, 48 hours, and you think that it's OK to leave a trough of food and a fountain for your cats and say, you know, they can do without the scooping for 24 hours, no.

如果你認為離開幾天，哪怕是 24 或 48 小時，你認為可以給貓咪留一個食槽和噴泉，然後說，你知道，它們可以 24 小時不用舀水，那是不可能的。

No.

不

With cats, we just assume they will be fine.

對於貓，我們認為它們不會有事。

Don't assume that.

不要這麼想。

And don't just leave them alone.

而且，不要對它們置之不理。

So the next one is also not great, even though you think it might be.

是以，下一個也不會很好，儘管你認為它可能會很好。

No, it's not.

不，不是這樣的。

And that is having your mom or your friend or your neighbor just stop in for 20 minutes a day.

那就是讓你的媽媽、朋友或鄰居每天來坐 20 分鐘。

I know.

我知道

He wanted to do a stop-and-shot.

他想攔截射擊。

I didn't want to do a stop-and-shot.

我不想進行即停即拍。

Scoop the boxes, put down some food, freshen up, say bye, kitties, and they're gone.

舀舀盒子，放點食物，梳洗一下，說聲再見，小貓們就走了。

Again, it is such an interruption.

又是這樣的干擾。

Oh!

哦！

Oh, no!

哦，不

They're coming in through the back door!

他們是從後門進來的！

In the territorial confidence part, in the three R's, in their relationship with you, you're not even giving them a remotely soft landing.

在領土自信的部分，在三個 R 的部分，在他們與你的關係中，你甚至沒有給他們一點軟著陸的機會。

And I know it just feels easier, but it's bad easier.

我知道這只是感覺上更容易，但其實並不容易。

Number three, taking them to a boarding facility or even taking them to somebody's house.

第三，把他們送到寄宿機構，甚至送到別人家裡。

And for dogs, it might be just fine to take them to a facility, but you take a cat out of that home turf and the smells that tell them I'm home and all the signposts that say I'm confident and their base camps and the stuff that smells like you, and you put them in a space that is and has to be sterile.

對於狗來說，把它們帶到一個設施裡也許沒什麼問題，但你把貓從它的主場、告訴它們 "我回來了 "的氣味、表示 "我很自信 "的所有路標、它們的大本營以及聞起來像你的東西中帶走，然後把它們放到一個必須是無菌的空間裡。

It's still far from ideal, but it's also destructive for them.

這離理想還很遠，但對他們來說也具有破壞性。

So by the time they get back to the house, they may act out in an anxious way that you weren't even expecting, that kind of rebound effect, because they were robbed of territory for X amount of time.

是以，當他們回到家時，他們可能會表現出你意想不到的焦慮，產生反彈效應，因為他們被剝奪了 X 時間的領地。

Now, that all said, if it's an emergency, if you've got to get your cats out, you know, a gas leak, whatever it is, take your cats to a boarding facility.

現在，說了這麼多，如果是緊急情況，如果你必須把你的貓弄出來，你知道，煤氣洩漏，不管是什麼，帶你的貓去寄宿設施。

There are plenty that try their hardest and really do their best to do a home-away-from-home type of thing.

有很多人竭盡全力，真正做到了 "賓至如歸"。

So do it then.

那就去做吧。

It's just my take is it's still not home, so it's not ideal.

我的看法是，這裡還不是家，所以並不理想。

All right, so now on to what I think is really good, and then there's sort of the Emerald City that I'll get to in a minute.

好了，現在說說我認為非常好的東西，還有翡翠城，我馬上就會說到。

But it all revolves around something that I feel is just really going to solve the problem, and that's a pet sitter.

但這一切都圍繞著一個我覺得能真正解決問題的東西，那就是寵物保姆。

There's some websites that you can go to.

你可以訪問一些網站。

I'll put them in the description, just a few of them, and that also insists that their members are licensed, bonded, insured.

我會把它們寫在描述中，只是其中的幾個，它們也堅持認為自己的成員有執照、有擔保、有保險。

These guys are serious, and if anything happens, it reflects terribly on their business.

這些人是認真的，如果發生任何意外，都會對他們的業務造成嚴重影響。

So they really do take a lot of good care, but like any job, you interview them, you have them come over to your home, meet the animals.

是以，他們真的會悉心照料，但就像任何工作一樣，你要面試他們，讓他們來你家，見見動物。

I mean, the animals will let you know.

我是說，動物們會讓你知道的。

If the pet sitter comes over, and the animals are like, nope, and they run or they scratch or they do whatever, then maybe you should move on.

如果寵物保姆來了，動物們卻說 "不"，它們會跑，會抓，會做任何事，那你也許就該換個地方了。

Another thing you can do is, in a more organic way, go to places that you trust, whether it is your vet's office, a groomer that you work with, or the smaller sort of pet stores, or solicit information from people like friends and family that you trust, and you will get a pet sitter that they've worked with, and they go, yeah, this person is the bomb.

你還可以做的另一件事是，以一種更有機的方式，去你信任的地方，無論是你的獸醫辦公室、與你合作的寵物美容師，還是小型寵物店，或者從你信任的朋友和家人那裡獲取信息，你會得到他們合作過的寵物保姆，他們會說，是的，這個人就是炸彈。

They can be trusted with your house and with your animals, and like I said, interview them, have them come over.

他們對您的房子和動物都值得信賴，就像我說的，面試他們，讓他們過來。

Now once you have settled on that person, here's how it can go, both really good and ideal.

現在，一旦你選定了那個人，就可以按照以下方式進行，既可以是非常好的，也可以是理想的。

Really good is you would have them come over twice a day, morning and at the end of the day, just to get those real big components of your cat's rhythm down, because that morning energy, when the sun comes up, they're used to you guys getting up and that peak of energy, so you want to maintain that.

好的方法是讓它們每天來兩次，早上和晚上，這樣可以讓貓咪的生活節奏更有規律，因為早上太陽昇起的時候，它們已經習慣了你們起床，習慣了那種精力旺盛的狀態，所以你們要保持這種狀態。

They're up, in comes somebody, feed, a little bit of play, get that energy going, and then by the time that person leaves, then they're just, you know, hunt, catch, kill, eat, ah, groom, sleep, right?

它們起床，有人進來，餵食，玩一會兒，讓它們精力充沛，然後等那個人離開，它們就開始，你知道，打獵，捕捉，殺戮，吃東西，啊，梳洗，睡覺，對嗎？

Then at the end of the day, that same peak that they're used to happening, around dinner time, you know, or a little later, the sun's going down, you see where I'm going with three Rs and the maintaining of sameness.

然後在一天結束的時候，也就是晚飯前後，你知道，或者再晚一點，太陽下山的時候，他們會習慣性地出現同樣的高峰。

Most pet sitters will have structure for the way they charge based on how long they're there.

大多數寵物保姆都會根據他們的工作時間來確定收費方式。

You can pretty much call the shots on that as long as you plan in advance, and that's really important, and make sure that your vacation budget includes a pet sitter.

只要您提前做好計劃，您幾乎就可以在這方面發號施令，這一點非常重要，而且要確保您的度假預算中包括寵物保姆的費用。

That's how important I think it is.

我就是這麼認為的。

Our vacations, if it's an actual vacation, you know, we're planning this ahead of time.

我們的假期，如果是真正的假期，你知道，我們會提前計劃好。

Most of us just don't have the money to burn and like, yeah, I'm going to go to Cabo for the weekend, I wish, but you're planning these things months in advance, and you're thinking to yourself, all right, we got to deal with this much for plane, this much for hotel, this much for food, this much for our pet sitter.

我們中的大多數人都沒有那麼多錢去燒，就像，是啊，我要去卡波度週末，我也想啊，但你提前幾個月就計劃這些事情，你會想，好吧，我們得花這麼多錢買飛機，這麼多錢住酒店，這麼多錢買食物，這麼多錢請寵物保姆。

You're just adding that in.

你只是把它加進去而已。

It just should be a part of your planning.

它應該成為你計劃的一部分。

Now listen, if you can't plan budget-wise for this, if it's just absolutely a no-go, then go for asking a friend or a family member to come predictably.

聽著，如果你無法從預算上做出計劃，如果這絕對是不可能的，那就請朋友或家人來吧。

This is when you have to do it.

這是你必須做的。

Feel okay about saying, this is a job,

說 "這是一份工作"，你會覺得沒問題、

I really take this seriously,

我真的很認真地對待這件事、

I really want you to do this, this, and this.

我真的希望你這樣做、這樣做、這樣做。

That's the important part of all this.

這才是最重要的部分。

That's what puts this in the yes bucket, is the maintaining of the three Rs, the maintaining of relationship, the maintaining of territorial confidence by having this regular trusting presence.

這就是把它放在 "是 "桶裡的原因，是通過定期信任的存在來維持三個 "R"、維持關係、維持領土信任。

That's what makes it a yes.

這才是 "是"。

But then what makes it ideal is going from having somebody visit two times a day and then going overnight.

但是，從一天兩次的探視到通宵探視，這才是最理想的狀態。

If a pet sitter does overnights, they basically do it in blocks of 12 hours.

如果寵物保姆通宵工作，他們基本上是以 12 小時為組織、部門。

You might think that would be ridiculously expensive, but usually it's not.

你可能會覺得這太貴了，但通常不會。

They basically build it into their price structure.

他們基本上將其納入價格體系。

So 12 hours, let's say it's 7 to 7.

那麼 12 個小時，假設是 7 點到 7 點。

You got dinner, you got bedtime, you got breakfast.

你有晚飯，你有就寢時間，你有早餐。

Bang.

砰

That is the insertion of those three Rs, territorial confidence and relationship, all in one nice 12-hour chunk.

這就是把三個 "R"、領土信任和關係，全部整合在一個 12 小時的時間段裡。

Now hopefully I've sold you on the idea of being a little more structured around your absence, but now I want to get a little more detailed about what you can expect and what will make you feel better.

現在，希望我已經向你推銷了讓你的缺勤變得更有條理的想法，但現在我想更詳細地告訴你可以期待什麼，以及什麼會讓你感覺更好。

So the first thing is when it comes to what to expect from a pet sitter, and this is why I think it's just a one step over having a friend or family member stay, is the expectation that it's a job and they should know that it's not just a matter

是以，說到對寵物保姆的期望，這就是為什麼我認為這只是比讓朋友或家人留宿更進一步的原因。

I'm going to come over,

我要過去

I'm going to put some food in a bowl, and I'm going to cut out.

我要在碗裡放一些食物，然後切出來。

It's about what the rituals are that your cats will need to feel exercised and relaxed and knowing that, okay, this is how my life goes.

這關係到你的貓咪需要什麼儀式來鍛鍊身體、放鬆心情，並知道 "好吧，我的生活就是這樣"。

You can really detail it out.

你真的可以把它細化。

As a matter of fact,

事實上

I mean, in my home, we do this.

我是說，在我家裡，我們就是這麼做的。

I mean, when we have somebody coming into our home and we're going away for a bit, this is what comes in.

我的意思是，當有人來到我們家，而我們要離開一段時間時，這就是我們要做的。

Now, of course, you might not make it as publishable as my wife did, but look at what's in here, man.

當然，你可能無法像我妻子那樣把它發表出來，但看看這裡面有什麼，夥計。

I mean, from emergency phone numbers to this is who you call if this happens, if the lights go out, you call this person.

我的意思是，從緊急電話號碼到如果發生這種情況，如果燈滅了，你就打給這個人。

Everything is in here.

一切都在這裡。

That makes it so you can leave with confidence.

這樣您就可以放心地離開了。

In my home, we have little signs all over the place to say, hey, lock this patio door.

在我家，到處都有小牌子，上面寫著 "嘿，鎖好天井的門"。

Hey, don't forget, you know, we have a door dasher.

嘿，別忘了，你知道，我們有一個門扇。

Every time you open the door, don't let so-and-so get through.

每次開門時，不要讓某某通過。

You don't want to be sitting wherever you're sitting and going, man, I hope that cat does not run out the door.

無論你坐在哪裡，你都不會想 "夥計，我希望那隻貓不會跑出門外"。

Can you imagine how that feels?

你能想象這種感覺嗎？

You don't have to if you prep.

如果你做好了準備，就不必這樣做。

Now, here's another hint that I think would be great, especially if your pet sitter or friend or family member is a first-timer over at the house.

現在，我想再給你一個提示，尤其是當你的寵物保姆、朋友或家人是第一次來你家時，這個提示就更有用了。

It's an exercise that I will refer to as the handoff.

我把這種練習稱為 "交接"。

And the handoff is, depending on how, you know, skittish your cats are, is to have the pet sitter come over for a meal and a hangout once, twice, three times, where at first, they're just witnesses to mealtime, so they see you do it.

交接方法是，根據貓咪的膽小程度，讓寵物保姆過來用餐和閒逛，一次、兩次、三次都可以，起初，它們只是用餐時間的見證人，所以它們會看到你這樣做。

Here's an example.

這裡有一個例子。

I've had people come over to the house before where they just take the can of food and they dump it on the plate.

以前有人來我家，他們就直接拿著罐頭把食物倒在盤子裡。

Like, it looks like a hockey puck and they walk away.

比如，看起來像個冰球，他們就走開了。

My cats, they need to have it mushed up.

我的貓，它們需要把它搗碎。

They need to have it with a couple of drops of water.

他們需要加幾滴水。

I demonstrate to that new person how it's done.

我向新人演示如何操作。

In the meantime, the cats are watching it happen and they start to trust the person by association.

在此期間，貓咪們看著這一切發生，它們開始聯想信任這個人。

Next time they come over, they do the feeding and they do a little bit of playing.

下次他們來的時候，他們會餵食，也會玩一會兒。

They get them to trust a little bit, even if they're just sitting on the couch with you.

即使他們只是和你坐在沙發上，也能讓他們產生一點信任感。

I know, it sounds like overkill, but if your cat is that wallflower, especially, you want that.

我知道，這聽起來像是矯枉過正，但如果你的貓是壁花，尤其需要這樣。

One other thing that you want to make sure that your cats have, just because you don't want to leave it all to the pet sitter, obviously you want to have toys that you can put around the house.

您還需要確保您的貓咪有玩具，因為您不想把這一切都留給寵物保姆，顯然，您需要有可以放在房子周圍的玩具。

The category of toy

玩具類別

I call self-activated, which are the ones that they will hit or it's battery-operated, it's intermittent, and so as the pet sitter is leaving, they would put that out.

我把它們稱為自啟動式，即它們會撞擊或用電池驅動的，它是間歇性的，所以當寵物保姆離開時，它們會把它熄滅。

Or puzzle toys are great.

拼圖玩具也很不錯。

You should already have some, and if you haven't watched the puzzle toy video, go ahead and do that right about there.

你應該已經有一些了，如果你還沒看過拼圖玩具視頻，那就馬上去看吧。

And cat TV, things like birdhouses outside the window so your cat will be directed to sit in the window.

還有貓咪電視，比如窗外的鳥巢，這樣就能引導貓咪坐在窗邊。

Having your cat trees in the window.

把貓樹放在窗戶上

Beds near the window.

靠近窗戶的床鋪

Windows are your friend also while you're gone.

你不在的時候，窗戶也是你的朋友。

Don't leave it all up to the pet sitter.

不要把一切都交給寵物保姆。

And speaking of the pet sitter, if you really want to make their day, all that good stuff that you already have and that you'll have before you go on vacation, have that extra little stash.

說到寵物保姆，如果你真的想讓他們過上好日子，那麼你已經準備好的所有好東西，以及你在去度假前會準備好的東西，都要多備一點。

We'll call it the Santa Claus stash so that the pet sitter is now totally Santa Claus because they're presenting things that your cat doesn't normally have.

我們稱之為 "聖誕老人儲藏室"，這樣寵物保姆就完全成了聖誕老人，因為他們會送上您的貓咪平時沒有的東西。

And you can go over to the Jackson Galaxy store because believe me,

你可以去傑克遜銀河商店，因為相信我、

I've thought of all this stuff and we have all this stuff in our Santa Claus stash.

這些我都想到了，我們的聖誕老人儲藏室裡也有這些東西。

That's like extra cool treats.

這就像額外的清涼款待。

If your cats don't already get Churu, the tube treats, save that for the pet sitter because that is really good.

如果您的貓還沒有吃到 Churu（一種管狀食物），那就留著給寵物保姆吃吧，因為它真的很好吃。

Freeze-dried treats.

凍幹食品

We've got toys, puzzle toys.

我們有玩具，拼圖玩具。

We've got fresh beds that they're going to love that you can put in the window.

我們有新鮮的花床，它們一定會喜歡，你可以把它放在窗邊。

And cat trees.

還有貓樹

Don't worry, we got you covered.

別擔心，我們會幫你搞定。

Go on to JacksonGalaxy.com and stock up for your vacation.

請訪問 JacksonGalaxy.com，為您的假期做好準備。

Now after all this,

在這一切之後

I just hear the folks that I've talked to in person over all the years.

我只是聽到了多年來與我當面交談過的人們的聲音。

I've got plenty of clients and even folks that are watching here who have put it in comments that their cats have peed in their suitcases before or after they've come home for vacation.

我有很多客戶，甚至是正在收看節目的觀眾，都在評論中說他們的貓在回家度假前後在行李箱裡撒過尿。

You don't want that.

你不會想這樣的。

What you do want is you want to come home and your cats are like, hey mom, hey dad, and they're off doing something else.

你所希望的是，你回到家，你的貓咪們會說 "嘿，媽媽，嘿，爸爸"，然後它們就去做別的事情了。

That means that life was good while you were gone.

這說明，你不在的時候，生活還不錯。

That means you can relax knowing they're going to have a good time.

這意味著您可以放心，因為您知道他們會玩得很開心。

And isn't that what we want?

這不正是我們想要的嗎？