A woman who was woken by strange noises in her house never expected what she found when she went to investigate.
Many pet owners will have stories of their animal in the middle of the night—to go outside, barking at something nearby, or knocking something over somewhere in the house.
But for user @teeerajay, the sounds were a little different: it very much appeared as though her cat had started a band.
In a posted to her account on October 13, which has 190,000 likes and 2 million views, she can be seen creeping along a dark hallway in her home, where a repeated thumping sound can be heard. The sound of drums.
She switches on the light to reveal her black cat, Rune, standing on an electronic keyboard, having apparently activated it by climbing on it. As Rune notices her, he starts moving—and as he touches the keys, the drum sounds are combined with piano.
“When you wake up in the middle of the night to a strange thumping noise and find out your cat is practicing for his next gig,” she wrote over the clip.
And in the clip, she told him: “You are frickin’ talented, bro.”
TikTok users loved it, with hundreds flocking to the video to comment, many comparing Rune’s piano notes to the opening bars of My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade.”
“When I was a young cat,” one wrote, taking off the introductory lyrics to the hit song.
“I thought for sure he was about to play black parade,” another said, as one joked: “He was definitely going for a full rendition of Black Parade and you interrupted him.”
One commenter admitted they thought “I was gonna see him playing the drums.”
And one asked: “Does he do birthday parties?”
While cats do seem to get up to mischief at odd times, they are not, despite popular belief, nocturnal.
Rather, they are crepuscular, meaning they are . This comes from their , making them most active at the same time their prey would be on the move, according to Purina.
Cats have good night vision, to help with their hunting at dusk, and their crepuscular sleeping habits also explain why many cat owners are woken at the crack of dawn by their pet demanding breakfast.
Both Rune and his owner’s other cat, Freyja, feature prominently on @teeerajay’s TikTok account. The pampered pets sleep, play, and go on walks outside while safely harnessed on a leash.
Regalrumination.com has contacted @teeerajay on TikTok for comment on this story.
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