--- title: Cat Turns Snowy Elf on the Shelf Scene Into Floury Disaster description: In a post that has gone massively viral, a series of photos shows how a cat transformed a snowy Elf on the Shelf scene into a floury disaster. canonical: https://time.com/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-12T21:25:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:08.264Z og:title: It Appears the Perfect Snowy Holiday Decoration Scene Has Been Compromised By Mischievous Cat og:description: Hide your elves, hide your flour og:url: https://time.com/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57ff1a9356ccd1a0/698a0761db2987389a264a19/Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: It Appears the Perfect Snowy Holiday Decoration Scene Has Been Compromised By Mischievous Cat twitter:description: Hide your elves, hide your flour twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57ff1a9356ccd1a0/698a0761db2987389a264a19/Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It Appears the Perfect Snowy Holiday Decoration Scene Has Been Compromised By Mischievous Cat  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 12, 2019 9:25 PM UTC  /EyeEm—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 12, 2019 9:25 PM UTC For many children, the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without a daily search for the new hiding spot of their [Elf on the Shelf](https://time.com/4584269/alfie-elf-on-the-shelf/). But [mischievous pets](https://time.com/5636263/dogs-dyed-green/) can sometimes get in the way of parents’ best-laid Elf on the Shelf plans. In a [post](https://twitter.com/isiarraswanson/status/1204822118996828165) that has gone massively viral since it was shared on Twitter on Wednesday by user Siarra Swanson, a series of four photos shows how a curious cat transformed a snowy Elf on the Shelf scene into a floury disaster. “My mom set up my brothers elf on the shelf like they were playing in snow and the last three pictures is what we woke up to instead…,” Swanson tweeted, referencing the quick work the cat made of sending both the elf figurines and flour snow substitute flying. > [](https://twitter.com/isiarraswanson/status/1204822118996828165) The tweet has been liked over 143,000 times and retweeted nearly 30,000 as of Thursday afternoon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/"},"headline":"It Appears the Perfect Snowy Holiday Decoration Scene Has Been Compromised By Mischievous Cat","datePublished":"2019-12-12T21:25:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:08.264Z","description":"Hide your elves, hide your flour","url":"https://time.com/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Holidays","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57ff1a9356ccd1a0/698a0761db2987389a264a19/Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57ff1a9356ccd1a0/698a0761db2987389a264a19/Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cat-Elf-on-the-Shelf","caption":"","creditText":"/EyeEm—Getty Images","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/5749075/elf-on-the-shelf-cat/","name":"It Appears the Perfect Snowy Holiday Decoration Scene Has Been Compromised By Mischievous Cat"}}]}] ```