Family Moves From Apartment to House, Unprepared for What Happens to Cat
Many people dream of having more space, but one family member who moved from an apartment into a large house was having none of it.
Black cat Pooka lives with her owners Christine Scherer, 32, and Ethan Scarduzio, 34, who recently closed on their new home.
"It's been a big adjustment moving from a small apartment to a house for all of us but it's been an exciting change, and we are so grateful to have this place," Scherer told Newsweek.
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It's certainly been an adjustment for Pooka, who, used to the layout of an apartment, was repeatedly getting confused in the larger house.
A video shared to their TikTok account @twoblackcatsprod, named for the occult and conspiracies podcast she and Scarduzio host together, shows how Pooka "keeps getting lost" in their new home.
It shows Scarduzio and Scherer measuring their floors when a loud noise suddenly begins howling from another part of the house.
"Yeah, we're up here," Scarduzio calls, as the meows continue.
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With both Scarduzio and Scherer calling out to give their location, the meows get louder, until she finally arrives in the room with her owners and strides up for a cuddle.
In the caption, Scherer wrote: "She wanders off by herself then cries because she's alone lol."
And speaking to Newsweek, she added that Pooka overall has been adjusting well.
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"She's always been very vocal and likes to make her thoughts known," she explained.
Cats are known for not being the biggest fans of change, and owners moving to a house should consider making one room in the new home the pet's "base," filled with their toys, litter box and food bowls, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) suggests.
After they're comfortable, owners can then begin letting them explore other areas of the house, while keeping some doors closed, and gradually move the litter box to where its permanent location in the home will be.
TikTok users loved the clip, which has reached 2.4 million likes since being shared on August 4, and thousands of comments, with one recalling they "lost our cat for 2 days when we moved into our house!"
"She's like, 'You've brought me to this LABYRINTH,'" another joked, while one laughed: "Black cats are so needy I love them."
One user suggested the couple should "up their food intake a little bit since they will have more room to run around,"—to which the Two Black Cats account replied: "Did my cats pay you to say this."
Scherer said the reaction to her video has been "really funny," as "it's so strange and unpredictable which videos get traction sometimes, but I appreciate that others find her as funny as we do."
Scherer, who also has cats Bagheera and Smokey, added: "It's also cool to read about other people having similar experiences with their cats, they're such sweet, goofy creatures."
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