History Series / MyCatFromHell

* DoesNotLikeMen: Buddy had abused Lita so much that she no longer trust men, to the point of hissing at Jackson for trying to pet her and curling up in Ryan's arms. Thankfully, Ryan followed Jackson's advice and Lita gain self-confidence and began trusting him.

* LoudSleeperGag: PlayedForDrama with Elvis from Season 7, who weighs 18 pounds (8.2 kg) and has sleep apnea, so his snoring wakes up both the newborn baby and the dad (who works as a truck driver and sleeps at all times of day).

* MamaBear/ PapaWolf: Plenty of clients who have kids, want kids, or going to have kids are understandably worried about their cats hurting their children, especially if it is a baby or toddler. Heck, Dorothy and Travis made it clear that if their cat Polly attacked their toddler son Rex even once, they would get rid of her.

* BullyingTheDisabled: Inverted with Pip, who has cerebellar hypoplasia, which reduces his ability to control his own movements. In spite of his condition, he is still aggressive to his owner's other cat.

** In the season 5 episode ''Demon Cat'', Vincent is a 6-year-old male cat who pees on the floor, tears open window and door screens, chews window blinds, and claws the wall trying to get outside where he routinely gets into fights with other cats. Vincent [[spoiler:isn't neutered]]. When Jackson learns this fact and explains to Vincent's guardians that this is '''the reason''' for the behaviour problems, the dad ''can't imagine how that would change anything''. [[spoiler:Meaning, in 6 years of his male cat acting like any gonad-possessing male animal in any wildlife documentary, and (presumably) having internet access, he hasn't connected the dots.]]
*** Likewise, Missy from Season 10 is not spayed.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: '''Jackson Galaxy.'''[[note]]No, it's not his birth name, but he did legally change his name to this.[[/note]]

* TrainingThePet: This show is about someone who trains people's misbehaving cats.

* CatsAreMean: Played straight in the series title (and taken UpToEleven with the new logo, in which the snarling black cat is given ''devil horns and a forked tail'' while flames swirl behind it), but Jackson makes it clear that the cats' behavior is due to health issues, psychological imbalances, or problems with their living environment, not spite or malice. And the trope is fully averted by the end of each segment, with Jackson helping cats and humans to understand each other and live peaceably.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent
** A Season 6 episode, instead of having Jackson deal with any number of troublemaking house cats, instead has him dealing with a feral cat colony (and mainly trying to trap one of the cats, since she was the only one who still needed to be fixed). The family who called him over did have a cat in their house, but she wasn't really misbehaving, just acting rather skittish because of all the cats in the surrounding area (including the family's garage).
** This came up again in "Gotham Feral Cats," which premiered in May 2016. A father and son, Scott and Terry, were trying to help a large group of feral cats all on their own and struggling.
** One episode dealt with Jackson taking fifty kittens from an overburdened shelter in Los Angeles to a Colorado town where the shelter had people wanting to adopt.

* BaldOfAwesome: Jackson without question.

* BadassBeard: Jackson sports a stylized one of these.

*** Averted with some that are overly energetic ( like Mr. Weasley and Bowie) and needed a way to get tired out.

* CuteButCacophonic: Noise complaints are a big reason people end up calling Jackson, such as in the case of Oscar, a sphynx cat with an ''amazingly'' loud and grating meow. Oscar's owners actually had got an official noise complaint from their neighbors, and Jackson lampshades Oscar's amazing lung capacity several times. Another Sphynx cat example is Black Rose who SCREAMS if Matilda tries to attack her. Jackson even admitted her screams are one of the most insane and bloodcurdling cat screams he has heard.

* GenderBlenderName: Larry, Johnny, and Mufasa both have male names, but are female cats.

* Max, the one-eared cat is this. He is part of a program kids can read to him to improve their reading skills.

* MamaBear/ PapaWolf: Plenty of clients who have kids, want kids, or going to have kids are understandably worried about their cats hurting their children, especially if it is a baby or toddler. Heck, Dorothy and Travis made it clear that if their cat Polly attacked their son toddler Rex even once, they will get rid of her.

** Jackson when faced with Foley, a cat with with a sleep disorder so strong he started thrashing and flung himself off any furniture he was sleeping on. Jackson first witnessed this when he flung itself off a bench ''headfirst'' (thankfully the owners had foreseen this and put pillows all around the bench). Jackson realized the owners were pretty much living in a perpetual state of OhCrap as well, with the stress hugely wearing them down.

* OneSteveLimit: {{Averted}} Jackson had encountered owners who have actually named their cats, you guessed it; Jackson.

* SenselessViolins: A non-weaponized example; Jackson has a guitar case (with cat eyes painted on the outside) that he carries an assortment of cat toys and other tools of his trade in. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when a client says he hopes Jackson has a Tommygun in there to deal with their cat.

*** Averted with some cats that are overly energetic ( like Mr. Weasley and Bowie) and needed a way to get tired out.
* Averted and inverted with some cats (like Good Kitty, Daisy, Charlee, Lita, and Buddha) who were bully victims and need to learn self-confidence. These cats are rather very friendly and if they hissed at Jackson, it was justified because they were suspicious he might hurt them or their bullies were near.

** Karalyn survived a roadside bombing but she developed depression and PTSD as a result. After getting her therapy cat Sophia, she was doing MUCH better.

** Otitis, the no-eared cat helped is owner after she survived a car accident and has a book about him.

* AnArmandALeg: A few cats from "My Cat from Heaven" have missing body parts.

* AnArmandaLeg: A few cats from "My Cat from Heaven" have missing body parts.

* ShellShockedVeteran: None of the cats have actually been in war, but one of Xena's problems was that she suffered from PTSD, due to being traumatized by a house fire she was unable to escape and merely hid through.
* Karalyn survived a roadside bombing but she developed depression and PTSD as a result. After getting her therapy cat Sophia, she was doing MUCH better.

** Jackson when faced with Foley, a cat with with a sleep disorder so strong it started thrashing and flung itself off any furniture it was sleeping on. Jackson first witnessed this when it flung itself off a bench ''headfirst'' (thankfully the owners had foreseen this and put pillows all around the bench). Jackson realized the owners were pretty much living in a perpetual state of OhCrap as well, with the stress hugely wearing them down.

* MamaBear/PapaWolf: Plenty of clients who have kids, want kids, or going to have kids are understandably worried about their cats hurting their children, especially if it is a baby or toddler. Heck, Dorothy and Travis made it clear that if their cat Polly attacked their son toddler Rex even once, they will get rid of her.