Fierce feline who terrorized family stumps TV host

This undated photo provided by Animal Planet shows a cat named Lux, in Portland, Ore., who is featured on Animal Planet’s "My Cat From Hell." If you watched the TV reality show this past weekend, you saw the feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy trying to tame the Portland cat who became notorious after its owner placed a 9-1-1 call about Lux attacking the couple’s baby and then chasing the family into a bedroom. The show’s ending is a cliff-hanger. (AP Photo/Animal Planet) This undated photo provided by Animal Planet shows a cat named Lux, in Portland, Ore., who is featured on Animal Planet’s "My Cat From Hell." If you watched the TV reality show this past weekend, you saw the feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy trying to tame the Portland cat who became notorious after its owner placed a 9-1-1 call about Lux attacking the couple’s baby and then chasing the family into a bedroom. The show’s ending is a cliff-hanger. (AP Photo/Animal Planet)

By Associated Press June 18, 2014 4 min read

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – In what truly epitomized the title of his TV show, “My Cat From Hell,” feline behaviorist Jackson Galaxy is calling his attempt to tame the Portland cat notorious for attacking a baby and boxing his panicked owners into a bedroom “the hardest case I have ever worked.”

It got more difficult after the happy ending for the cat named Lux soon unraveled.

In the reality show that aired last weekend, Galaxy persuades another Portland couple to take Lux while the cat is treated with antidepressants and anti-seizure medication. A veterinarian diagnosed Lux with feline hyperesthesia syndrome, which can trigger violent behavior.

But after the episode’s taping, Lux attacked his new guardians and they gave him up for their own safety.

“It was the worst letdown,” Galaxy told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I don’t think I’ve ever had a bigger shock. This is the hardest case I have ever worked.”