A Florida woman hoping to cuddle a stray cat was met with an unexpected response—more than a dozen birds of various species appeared instead, all seemingly eager for attention.
Livy Vic, 22, a singer-songwriter, was out for breakfast with her boyfriend when she spotted a tabby cat in a diner parking lot. Speaking to Newsweek, she said, “The cat lover in me couldn’t help but try to call over the cat.”
But the cat wasn’t interested. In a video shared to her TikTok account @nu11user on June 5, Vic is seen calling out to the feline, which ignores her completely. Instead, two ducks begin waddling toward her, followed by a wood stork and eventually a group of chickens. The scene quickly turned from calm to chaotic.
“Why are they all coming? I want the cat!” Vic says in the video, as more birds continue to arrive.
Vic stood up and slowly approached the cat to try and pet it, but it backed away. Meanwhile, the bird crowd kept growing. “I had spotted the chickens on the property before going in to eat, but I didn’t get to enjoy them closely until the video I recorded,” she explained.
She added that stray cats have long been seen around the diner. Nearby ponds may explain the presence of ducks and storks, but the chickens came as a surprise. “The chickens were new! I have no idea where they came from,” she said.
She captioned the now-viral clip: “Be careful where you pss pss. It went from one cat to every bird within a mile radius!”
The TikTok video has gained over 550,000 views and nearly 160,000 likes. Commenters were quick to joke about the unexpected turnout. One wrote, “Why are there so many species of birds?” Another asked, “Where did the CHICKENS come from?” A third viewer quipped, “Every time I looked up from the comments, there was a new bird species.”
One user joked that Vic had “unlocked the bird distribution system,” while another said she had summoned “an entire zoo.” Others found humor in the cat’s refusal to engage. “The fact the cat wanted NOTHING to do with you makes this a million times funnier,” one person commented.
A few users also admired the wood stork, with one writing, “I’d feel so special getting the privilege to be so close to one.” Once endangered, the wood stork’s population has recovered in recent decades. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the number of nesting pairs in the U.S. rose from about 5,000 in the 1970s to over 11,000 by 2023, prompting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose removing it from the endangered species list.
Vic shared that she originally posted the video to her Instagram story before friends encouraged her to upload it to TikTok. “Love to see that it’s being enjoyed and having so much engagement,” she said. “It’s the moments you least expect.”
Although she never did get to pet the cat, Vic said, “The attention from all my avian friends was just what I needed.”
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