A cat owner has shared the heartbreaking moment her weekly meal prep was instantly destroyed.
Madison Forte, who posts to TikTok under the username @realmadforte, has gone viral after showing the destruction caused by her orange cat after she left a huge pot of soup unattended.
“I meal prepped an entire pot of soup for the week but then my cat decided he really wanted chicken,” she summed it up in a video shared on February 10 which has already received more than 164,000 likes.
The clip shows the pot overturned on the stove, with slices of chicken, vegetables, and lemon spilled across the surface and dropping down toward the oven and floor.
At the same time, the culprit — a ginger cat named Henry — was happily picking up the pieces spilled across the floor.
As the video went on, Henry could be seen chewing on cooked chicken before walking away, leaving Forte to pick up the pieces — literally, with a wooden spoon, as she explained “I have no paper towel.”
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Forte wrote in the caption: “Anyone else have an orange cat? And yes obvi I cried.”
TikTok users loved the video, viewed over 1 million times in a matter of days, as animal lovers commented on the clip with many cat owners sharing their own stories.
“Bought groceries. Thought I had time to run down and get the rest. Came back and my orange boy ate half a rotisserie chicken,” one user wrote. “I was gone for all of 1.5 minutes. NEVER AGAIN.”
“You meal prepped for your cat? That’s so sweet,” one said, as another laughed at “Him walking away like ‘you should really clean this up.’”
Some said it should come as a warning to cat owners, as pets can easily get into food that can be toxic to them. Common ingredients that can be toxic to cats include chocolate, onion, garlic, and chives, as well as undercooked meat, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Citrus can also cause irritation in cats if ingested in significant quantities.
Another commenter said Henry “doesn’t get in trouble and it shows” — to which Forte responded with a video update, showing Henry curled up and relaxing in a bed, and said they had “made up.”
Cats are known to be independent and do their own thing, but it is possible to train and discipline a cat, according to senior veterinarian Dr Christian Broadhurst, who told Newsweek owners should use positive reinforcement rather than punishment.
“No spanking, nothing causing them pain or discomfort,” the vet at the nonprofit clinic Clay Humane said. Instead, owners should reward the cat with treats after it does something you like.
If the cat behaves badly or does something it shouldn’t, owners can put it in a time-out by removing it to a different room.
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