Cat Behavior
A viral cat video changed my life – modern cat
Rescue of cats, privileges and how the course of your life can change in the most unexpected way
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Last update: July 10, 2025
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Illustration by Martha Pluto
FOr a decade, I did everything right: I went to the university that offered a complete scholarship, graduated at the top of my class, I arrived at the postgraduate school. I moved to a city with a lower cost of living and obtained a stable job. But it never mattered how hard I worked or how many extra time shifts I enrolled or how many hours I spent trying to discover other ways to earn money. The rent would rise again. My car would break. I lived the check check. They said goodbye.
The unlikely video that everything changed
There was a crucial movement that saved me, one thing that catapulted me from unemployed with a growing medical debt to an owner with stable income, financially stable for the first time in my life.
Here is the secret, what changed everything to me: I filmed a video about cooking a miniature thanksgiving for Stray Cats. And the video went viral.
Illustration by Martha Pluto
Here is the secret, what changed everything to me: I filmed a video about cooking a miniature thanksgiving for Stray Cats. And the video went viral.
A miniature thanks to cat action goes viral
I had been feeding the street cats outside my house for almost a year when I saw a Cornwall chicken in the store and I thought how beautiful it was, how it looked like a miniature turkey. How surprised I would have been to know that this moment would be the beginning of a completely new career. Do you count like a career? Making videos of cats?
I cooked my miniature turkey on a miniature baking tray. Macé a single potato and bought a can of pumpkin puree and a sauce bag with cat turkey flavor. I looked for second -hand stores until I found miniature plates, white porcelain with gold edges. The meals, a complete tray of them, one for each cat, were adorned with a single green Jew. He had obsessively investigated what thanksgiving foods are safe for cats. And then I placed the plates around the entrance road, the elegant dishes on the earth and the gravel, and filmed when all the wild cats approached to smell them. Francois, a great cat, the color of a roasted marshmallow, was the first to lick.
That was the whole video: prepare at miniature meals, making them look elegant, and Francois, with his cross -eyed face, engulfing his down. Making thanksgiving dinner for Gats Stay, I subtitled her.
That is all he took. The video exploded.
The viral thanksgiving for the Cats Tiktok Video that changed Courtney’s life.
My first month in Tiktok I won more than a thousand dollars. That was almost a payment check for me, almost 80 hours of work at the work of my office. The following month, I won more than $ 2000 in CAT videos, and that monthly number continued.
My first month in Tiktok I won more than a thousand dollars. That was almost a payment check for me, almost 80 hours of work at the work of my office.
I shared videos about rescuing the Dark Alleys kittens, about catching wild cats in trailer parks, to deliver donated cat food to hungry cats. It did not escape that the neighborhoods where I worked were in the poorest parts of the city, that the places where street cats proliferated were the places with the least amount of resources. At the same time, my strange success on the Internet had allowed me to update the invoices, I was witnessing the poverty I had never known. My daily life, my morning with cats in my entrance path, filming silly videos, began to require a constant reconciliation of this. Every day, with every cat I saved and every bill I paid, I was thinking: I deserve this?
Last update: July 10, 2025
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