--- title: Cat Plays With Window Washer: Viral Video description: It's a match made in heaven canonical: https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-12T18:39:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:53.865Z og:title: This Cat's Best Friend Is the Window Washer og:description: It's a match made in heaven og:url: https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Cat's Best Friend Is the Window Washer twitter:description: It's a match made in heaven twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Cat's Best Friend Is the Window Washer ## Video: Inside New York's First Cat Cafe [Watch (HLS stream): Inside New York's First Cat Cafe](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-12-12. Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 12, 2015 6:39 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 12, 2015 6:39 PM UTC When you are a cat living in a high-rise apartment, there’s not much action going on outside the windows—until the window washer comes by. YouTube user [Rina Takei’s channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDwWFt8k5df8Arv1j5e55LA) is filled with videos of house cat Guinness playing with the man dangling outside the fourth story window. The cat’s interest is seemingly piqued the moment the [big black safety rope appears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6x188%5FfJfI) out the window with the furball trying to bat at it through the glass. When the man that the video description calls “Window Cleaning Uncle” appears, the fun really gets started. While the window is cleaned, [the cat goes to town](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxOXZxUt%5FU) trying to either play with the squeegee or decimate the invader, depending on what you think about cats and their motives. The cleaner, protected from the cat’s assault by a sheet of glass, is more than happy to play along. If their friendship (or ongoing war) gets any cuter they might have to take it to the next level—which is the next floor, of course. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/"},"headline":"This Cat's Best Friend Is the Window Washer","datePublished":"2015-10-12T18:39:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:53.865Z","description":"It's a match made in heaven","url":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","cats","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/","name":"This Cat's Best Friend Is the Window Washer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside New York's First Cat Cafe","description":"Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0MiiFeak/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-12T19:30:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4070217/cat-window-washer-friend/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```