A cat owner learned the hard way that telling your feline "no" will only leave you realizing they own you after her plan to keep him inside the yard backfired miserably.

TikTok user @talltownhouse hoped to give her cat the opportunity to go outside but within the confines of the backyard. To achieve this, she set up a fence around the garden walls that she said in a recent TikTok video looked like a "prison."

Owners will sometimes build "catios" or enclosures that allow them to be outside without worrying about an escape attempt. Others might add fence toppers like chicken wire or rollers to keep their cats in the yard and discourage them from jumping over. This cat owner elected the latter.

At the top of her brick wall, she placed brackets with wiring going from post-to-post, which spread across the perimeter. The idea was to keep her cat inside the yard with the wiring stopping him from reaching the top of the wall. She spent a "small fortune" on the garden makeover, but that didn't matter to her cat. In his eyes, the fence equated "no." He could no longer escape and that was not an answer he was willing to live with.

In her TikTok video that she posted last week, @talltownhouse found her cat sitting on top of the brick wall and managed to get past her homemade fence topper.

The video's text overlay reads: "Spent a small fortune making the garden look like a prison." Realizing the plan backfired, the video's caption reads: "Egg on my face."

At least his master plan didn't happen instantly. His owner wrote in the comments section that he spent hours looking for weak spots along the fence until he figured out an escape route.

"One side isn't great, which is where he jumps from and the other is a proper one where he doesn't try," @talltownhouse wrote.

Newsweek reached out to @talltownhouse via TikTok for additional information.

To watch the video, click here.

TikTok Users React

As of Friday afternoon, the TikTok video has reached 108,500 views and 3,394 likes. It also hit home with viewers as several have gone through the same experience.

"Cats are just so mischievous," one TikTok user wrote.

Another added: "He's just sitting there letting you figure this out. He won for sure."

A third commented: "This is exactly why I'm building a catio instead. I KNOW my two cats will do this."

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