--- description: A cat plays Whac-A-Mole with its owner, who uses her fingers and a cardboard box to create the game. title: Here is a Cat Playing Whac-A-Mole with Its Owner’s Fingers image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8155567ddc7efd1f/69876e46e53aba1cca4d67ce/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-12-33-01-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here is a Cat Playing Whac-A-Mole with Its Owner’s Fingers  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 11, 2014 5:34 PM CUT   by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 11, 2014 5:34 PM CUT Today in pet owners who love their animals enough to risk losing digits, a cat plays Whac-A-Mole with its owner’s fingers as she pokes them through holes in a cardboard box. The cat seems to be having fun at first, but when the owner begins to increase the challenge, the cat gets a look on its face that we can only assume to mean, “why would you do this to me?” It’s not clear whether this is a creative, homemade scheme for cat entertainment or a form of very benign torture. Either way, the cat’s going to have to try again for a better score. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3630233/catwhac-a-mole-fingers-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3630233/catwhac-a-mole-fingers-video/"},"headline":"Here is a Cat Playing Whac-A-Mole with Its Owner’s Fingers","datePublished":"2014-12-11T17:34:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:15.195Z","description":"They don’t allow cats in Chuck E. Cheese’s, after all","url":"https://time.com/3630233/catwhac-a-mole-fingers-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","cats","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8155567ddc7efd1f/69876e46e53aba1cca4d67ce/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-12-33-01-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8155567ddc7efd1f/69876e46e53aba1cca4d67ce/screen-shot-2014-12-11-at-12-33-01-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-11 at 12.33.01 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3630233/catwhac-a-mole-fingers-video/","name":"Here is a Cat Playing Whac-A-Mole with Its Owner’s Fingers"}}]}] ```