A couple from Atlanta, Georgia, couldn't believe their eyes when they came home to find their cat watching Secret Life of Pets, despite leaving the TV off before going out.

In a video shared on TikTok in September by the couple, under the username @sav.gif, the tabby cat can be seen lying on the couch in front of the television, watching the comedy movie, as her owners try to understand how she managed to put it on.

"We left and the TV was off. We came back and she had put on Secret Life of Pets. What," reads layover text in the clip. And the poster added in the caption: "The amount of buttons she had to press to get there …"

While there isn't as much research around cat intelligence as there is for dogs, what we know is that felines are definitely smarter than we give them credit for, and may be even smarter than their canine counterparts.

Both cats and dogs' intelligence have often been compared to that of a human toddler, but while pups are known for doing incredible things like serving in the army or the police, felines almost never take on these roles. So does that mean that they are not clever enough?

The answer is no. Berit Brogaard, professor of philosophy and director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research at the University of Miami, said in an article published by Psychology Today that perhaps cats won't do any of these things because they are "too smart to be enslaved by humans."

The article said that, despite having a smaller-sized brain than canines, they also have 300 million neurons, whereas dogs have only 160 million. This is surely a better indicator than brain size is.

While there is no doubt that cats are smart creatures, one questions comes up when watching the viral clip. Can cats actually see what is on TV? Science says possibly. Some studies have found that felines are able to identify images on TV, but the way they perceive these images in their brain is still unknown.

So if your cat is staring at the television while it is on, it may be for two reasons: they are either stimulated by what's on; or they are being disturbed by it. The U.K. charity Cats Protection's website says that, if your feline watches with narrow pupils and ears and whiskers pointed forward, they may be stimulated by the image on the TV.

On the other hand, if their pupils are dilated and their ears flat while watching television, it may be a sign that they may be stressed by what is on screen.

The video quickly went viral on social media, getting viewers from across TikTok. It has so far received over 344,600 views and almost 100,000 likes on the platform.

One user, Jillian, commented: "For some reason I thought, she must've used Alexa, as if her verbally asking for this movie would be less crazy."

Mo posted: "Out of alllll movies / shows that she could've put on THIS IS IT?! I'd be creeped by my cat forever."

Linds added: "My roommate and I once sat there thinking the other had turned in the nature channel for the cat … the cat turned on the nature channel for the cat."

Newsweek reached out to @sav.gif for comment via TikTok comments. We could not verify the details of the case.

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