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By Anders Anglesey
U.S. News Reporter
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Cats have a sneaky habit of randomly disappearing now and then, leading their owners to wonder where they might be, but luckily one pet parent knew exactly where her feline had escaped to for some quiet time.
In a viral video uploaded to TikTok on October 22, user scrunchedfacepumpkin explained she has a "nightly chase and catch" with her pet cat, Pumpkin, who appeared to enjoy some alone time sitting upright against the wall in the hallway outside her apartment.
"It's currently 11:40 p.m. I really have to go to bed," a caption on the video read. "But my cat is still sitting in the hallway enjoying his alone time.
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"Let's go get him. Look at his face, he knows I'm coming for him. He's gonna start running immediately when I get there and he's gonna pretend to run back home, except he's not going to go into the house — just watch."
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Pumpkin then got up just as the TikTok user predicted and started to scurry toward the apartment before needing a little encouragement to go a bit faster.
"Time to go home, right?" The TikTok user said in the video caption. "Which one's your house? Go in."
But as Pumpkin got to the door he took a last-second swerve away from the apartment as if to avoid going home.
"That's your house Pumpkin," scrunchedfacepumpkin said, before the video ended.
The post has been viewed more than 3.2 million times and was liked on an estimated 468,500 occasions.
Newsweek has contacted scrunchedfacepumpkin for comment via TikTok.
According to PetMD, a website that collaborates with pet experts about animal health and care, a cat sitting in an upright position is "a vote of confidence in their surroundings."
"In addition, sitting up gives a cat easier access to groom their belly with less effort between naps," the website said. "Cats sleeping in a sitting position may also be doing it to support their back muscles."
Online Reaction to TikTok Video
The majority of the comments seen by Newsweek praised the cat's chilled behavior and shared similar experiences with their pets, or said they would like to hang out with the feline.
TikTok user Kristalyn Rose said: "The way he's sitting just all alone vibing."
Fartbox Johnson added: "I would lose my mind coming out of the elevator seeing a cat just sitting like that."
Jason Brooks commented: "If I saw a cat sitting like that and knew he did that every night, I'd just start hanging out with him."
Chicanahanahana posted: "So cute. My cat loves to go in the hallway and roll around. He never does it at home, just the hallway."
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