Taylor Nelson was in the middle of a Zoom conference when she heard a commotion all throughout her apartment. Spike, her cat, was soundly resting in his bed beside her desk, so she realized it had to be Faye, her small kitten, who was creating all the ruckus.
“[I] remember thinking during the meeting, ‘Wow, she’s really having fun right now,’ because she was in the midst of an intense zoomie session,” Taylor Nelson, Faye’s mom, told The Dodo (Nelson is also an associate video editor/producer at The Dodo). “She’s pretty much always zooming around, but this time she was full-on sprinting up and down the hallway, and would kangaroo-kick off the walls in order to keep up her momentum when running.”
Nelson was trying her best to focus on her meeting — when suddenly, she heard a huge crash coming from her bedroom down the hall.
“Both my cat and I glanced back at each other, as if to say, ‘Oh, God, what did she do?’ and [I] left the meeting,” Nelson recalled.
Nelson assumed Faye had knocked some plants off the ledge, something she and her brother do frequently, to the point that Nelson keeps extra terra-cotta pots in the basement just in case. However, she was taken aback when she entered the bedroom. It was considerably more than a few of plants.
“She did, in fact, knock over a couple of plants like I assumed, but she also somehow knocked over a 30-inch TV and a humidifier along with the plants,” Nelson said. “It was like a perfect disaster sandwich, with the plants broken on the bottom, the TV face down on top of the plants and then the humidifier spilled over. This was also all on my rug, so the water from the humidifier made a nice muddy mess under the plants and TV.”
Nelson set about cleaning up the mess and crossed her fingers that the TV had only sustained minor injuries. Unfortunately, there was no such luck. It was 100 percent broken. She managed to save the plants, though, using the extra terra-cotta pots she keeps on hand. As she assessed the damage, Faye milled around nearby, pretending she had absolutely no idea who was responsible for all this chaos.
“If it hadn’t been for her looking me down from under the bed right alongside the mess when I came into the bedroom and witnessed the mayhem, I wouldn’t have believed it was caused by this tiny 6-pound kitty,” Nelson said.
“She definitely knew she was guilty, but was trying to act like she had no idea what was going on and just found out about the mess when I did, because she only showed her face after I started cleaning up, and was slinking around sniffing everything with her ears back,” Nelson said.
As Nelson looked around, she was able to piece together what probably happened. While Faye was doing her zoomie laps, instead of kangaroo-kicking off the wall like she usually does, she likely jumped onto the bed, kicked off of the nearby TV, and boom — destruction. It was a lot to process, but really all Nelson could do was laugh at how such a tiny cat had caused such a huge mess.
“I couldn’t even be upset with her because the whole situation was so amusing,” Nelson recalled. “Honestly, knowing how she is, it was my fault I didn’t have things secured.” “My boyfriend and I are really going to nail the TV down like we’re in a cheap motel, and I’m planning on getting a couple of baby cameras so I can finally watch all of her antics on film because she’s one of the goofiest, craziest cats I’ve ever met,” she says.
Even with the TV nailed down, there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that Faye will still be able to cause some chaos, and hopefully the future baby monitors will be able to capture it all.
