A woman has gone viral for trying to get a "child-free" cat to adopt an orphaned kitten.

Kayla Thompson lives in Illinois and runs pastured pork and poultry farm SageWind Farmstead, regularly sharing snapshots of life in the country to her TikTok account @sagewindfarmstead.

Along with the pigs and chickens, SageWind is also home to semi-feral cat Wednesday, who lives on Thompson's porch. And when an orphaned barn kitten fell into Thompson's care, she thought it was time for Wednesday to experience motherhood. But, as proven by a viral video shared on November 9, which has over 1.1 million views, Wednesday was not interested.

Thompson, who named the new kitten Soup, told Newsweek she hoped Wednesday would "teach him how to be a cat a little better than I could."

"But she is apparently child-free by choice and wants absolutely nothing to do with the kitten—despite my best attempts."

She wrote on the video: "Trying to pawn the naughty orphaned barn kitten off on Wednesday, my semi-feral porch cat." It showed Thompson pleading with Wednesday to teach Soup some manners, and dropping him off on the porch.

And while Soup instantly ran toward Wednesday, she was having none of it, and first ignored him completely as he followed her around the porch.

For a brief moment, it seemed things could go well, as she stopped and sniffed at the kitten. But, as Thompson cried "he needs a mom," Wednesday hissed and batted him away.

Soup wasn't giving up, and Thompson tried getting them used to each other's scents. But the video ended with Wednesday sprinting away, with Soup chasing after her.

TikTok users loved the clip, with one commenter joking that Wednesday said: "Take her to Thursday, because I'm not the one!"

"The way he ran to you after the boop tells us you're his mom now," another said, while a third posted: "Let him be a house kitten!"

Others asked if Wednesday could be brought inside and not live on the porch, but Thompson said in a comment that she has tried in the past, but Wednesday "literally climbs my walls she hates it so much."

Thompson told Newsweek that Soup had been born in a barn at a nearby farm, and brought to her after his mother abandoned him. Her neighbor didn't have the resources to care for Soup, but knew Thompson had a background in kitten rescue.

"When [Soup] was first brought here, he was covered in fleas and had worms so we got him vetted and taken care of and then set to work on helping him adjust to his new role as a barn cat," Thompson said.

While many cats live indoors as pampered pets, this life doesn't suit every feline, and some become working cats or barn cats, often on farms or rural areas where they catch pests. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says this life is best suited for cats who are unsocialized with humans, or are used to living outdoors.

But life as a barn cat isn't exactly working out for Soup, Thompson added, as "he seems to have a vendetta for wanting to eat the chickens."

"Every time I let him have unsupervised chicken time, he ends up hunting and pouncing on them and causing mass barn chaos," Thompson said.

"Honestly, I think he's trying to be as bad as possible so that he'll have better luck as a house cat!"

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