A woman who discovered what her kitten did when scared and alone in her home took drastic action to be there for her more.

Lucy, who posts to TikTok under the name @countblabla, is the proud owner of black-and-white kitten, Shy, who lived up to her name when she scattered to a secure hiding spot when workmen were at the property.

While Lucy was out at work, she checked the cameras she keeps in her cats' "favorite spots" to keep an eye on them, and noticed tiny Shy hiding in the closet, a toy mouse in her mouth, as landscapers worked outside.

"She sat there for about 15 minutes with her mouse and it was devastating to watch while I was at work," Lucy told Newsweek. "Needless to say... I quit my 9-5 shortly after and took a job with more flexibility."

In a clip shared to TikTok on June 18, cameras in Shy's favorite spot showed the kitten hiding in the closet, her toy in her mouth, looking around and listening intently, never letting go of her comforting plushy.

Lucy wrote over the video: "They were doing yard work outside my window at my apartment complex. Shy took her mouse and sat in the closet like this for 20 minutes I want to sob."

And she wrote in a caption, interspersed with crying emojis: "Pls. The emotional support mouse. The looking around. She's in the dark."

And TikTok users' hearts were collectively broken. The video post, which attracted 271,000 likes, was filled with comments, one saying: "This is why I need to be a stay at home cat mom."

"No this just made me realize they get scared when I'm not here," another cried in all-caps, as one said: "Dat baby is scareddd!"

Another pointed out Shy's name, calling it "such a cute name," with Lucy replying the kitten is a "little shycopath."

She told Newsweek the video was taken when Shy was around two months old, and that the kitten "likes to hang out in the closet during the day so she has her bed in there, a little fort and a million toy mice."

The apartment they lived in at the time had landscaping work done every Tuesday, and when Lucy checked a camera during her shift "she was sitting there with her mouse being really brave."

While cats are known for their independent nature, owners should still take certain things into consideration before leaving them alone, particularly overnight. Expert Stephen Quandt of the Animal Behavior Institute previously told Newsweek that the length of time a cat can be left alone varies on the cat's "age, temperament and medical history."

Most cats, he said, should be fine on their own for a maximum of two nights provided they have regular meals delivered, but senior, medicated or sick cats should never be left alone that long.

Shy was found as a two-week-old kitten and taken into foster care before being put up for adoption, at which point she became part of Lucy's family, and younger cat sibling to Lucy's first cat, Stevie, who recently passed away.

Speaking about her adored kitten, Lucy said she is "really good" at playing fetch, and usually "wakes me up by dropping her mice on my face."

"But once I got used to that she started dipping them in her water fountain and dropping wet, cold, soggy mice on me. Disgusting but smart."

"She's gotten used to the landscapers and isn't even scared of storms! She likes to sit and watch them from her cat tree by the window."

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