A woman arrived home to her skyscraper apartment and at first couldn’t find her cat—only to realize she was in the worst place possible.
Skyler, who posts to TikTok under the username @skylerbeachh, lives in a high-rise apartment building in New York City, but is shortly due to leave to move to a new home.
Because of this, they’ve had new potential tenants viewing their apartment—which is a normal part of renting, but what happened at a recent viewing is far from ordinary.
In a video shared on April 5 and viewed close to 6 million times, Skyler revealed what she had come home to after a viewing of their apartment—and admitted she “almost had a heart attack” at what she saw.
Her tabby cat was sitting outside of the apartment on the windowsill, with an incredibly long, steep drop to the streets below, and the sill itself being only a few inches wide.
Skyler instantly opened the window and tried to tempt the cat back in with a bowl of food—but as cats are wont to do, the cat stepped in, hesitated, and stepped back out, leading Skyler to become even more worried.
“Come on, get inside,” she pleaded, sliding the window open further.
And when the feline stepped in properly this time, she shut the window immediately—and branded the cat a “psycho.”
Skyler wrote over the video: “POV you come back after someone toured your apartment to this.”
But she assured viewers that the cat is doing “well,” and in a final clip of the her pet getting chin scratches while lying on the bed, added: “Would sneak out again first chance given.”
TikTok users had a massive reaction, awarding the video more than 700,000 likes, as one admitted, “I would be freaking out,” and another asked: “How did this even happen?”
“Why are there no screens on the windows that high up?” another asked, as one admitted, “I would genuinely complain to whoever hosted that tour.”
And while some questioned why Skyler didn’t open the window as wide as possible, or try to grab the cat, another praised: “You did such a good job staying calm. This video nearly gave me a heart attack.”
Cat care company ProtectaPet advises that cat parents living in apartment buildings could make windows safe with limiters to only allow the window to open a certain amount, but warned that cats and kittens can squeeze through very small spaces.
Apartment cats should also have plenty of enrichment available to prevent them from getting bored, which could lead them to explore and potentially try to get outside.
Newsweek has contacted @skylerbeachh via TikTok for comment on this story.
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