--- title: Cat Throws Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as Cat description: This cat does not appreciate his owner stealing his look. canonical: https://time.com/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-31T18:29:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:00.127Z og:title: Cat Throws Perfectly Reasonable Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as Cat og:description: What a scaredy-cat! og:url: https://time.com/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/ 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: Cat Throws Perfectly Reasonable Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as Cat twitter:description: What a scaredy-cat! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Reasonable Cat Throws a Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as a Cat by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 31, 2019 6:29 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 31, 2019 6:29 PM UTC Halloween is a hoot until someone steals your look. At least that’s the takeaway from a video of a ticked off cat circulating the internet. There is nothing more frustrating than putting in the time and effort to come up with a clever Halloween costume—only to show up at a party and realize that someone else dressed up as an [Area 51 alien](https://time.com/5625420/area-51-petition/), \*NSYNC-era [Justin Timberlake](https://time.com/5686489/best-celebrity-halloween-costumes-2019/), or [Kylie Jenner singing “rise and shine”](https://time.com/5712169/halloween-2019-meme-costumes/). In the video, the cat is just chilling out at home when its owner suddenly revealed her idea for a Halloween costume—going as a cat. The cat took one look at the girl in her cat ears and drawn-on whiskers and instantly knew that costume was not okay. The owner may not have realized that stealing the cat’s look and [appropriating](https://time.com/4011171/cornrows-and-cultural-appropriation-the-truth-about-racial-identity-theft/) it for a “fun” Halloween costume was wrong, but she quickly recognized her mistake when the cat put its ears back and did the feline version of glaring, shaking its head, and walking away. The owner realized the error of her ways, rectified the situation, and removed the faux cat ears. Luckily, her furry friend was willing to forgive and chalk this up as a learning experience in exchange for a few chin scritches. Perhaps the owner will go as [Michael Myers from _Halloween_ ](https://time.com/5707353/mike-myers-halloween-costume/)instead. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/"},"headline":"Reasonable Cat Throws a Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as a Cat","datePublished":"2019-10-31T18:29:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:00.127Z","description":"What a scaredy-cat!","url":"https://time.com/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","cats","halloween","Halloween 2019"],"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/5712985/cat-tantrum-video/","name":"Reasonable Cat Throws a Tantrum Over Unoriginal Owner Who Dressed as a Cat"}}]}] ```