Mom Checks Baby Cam and Sees It Keeps Moving—Then Discovers the Reason

A mother checking in on her baby through the monitor noticed the camera kept moving, and what she found on the other end left viewers in stitches.

Kimmy Fuhrman couldn’t quite understand why the baby monitor screen kept shaking. She set the monitor on a table, out of reach of the baby’s hands, to look out over the floor where her child crawled, which meant it shouldn’t be moving. But it seemed like something kept bumping into it.

Confused, Fuhrman began using the buttons to move the baby monitor camera in different directions to get new views of the room, trying to pinpoint the cause of the shaking. Her July 4 TikTok video posted to her account @kimmy.fuhrman revealed the culprit: her cat.

As Fuhrman spun the camera around, she stopped it once it came face-to-face with her cat. She first saw her cat’s tiny, pink nose up against the screen. Then, as she adjusted the view, Fuhrman found her feline staring back at her with annoyance.

Fuhrman jokingly wrote in the caption: “I’m so sorry for being in YOUR space.”

She told Newsweek that she had a feeling it was the cat behind the disturbance, noting that this is typical behavior for her feline. She didn’t seem to mind, chuckling at the image she discovered before going over and fixing the camera.

And while it might appear to some that the cat doesn’t look thrilled to have a baby in the house, as if she’s the one taking care of her day and night, Fuhrman said she’s been nothing but a perfect and patient furry companion.

“My baby will grab her fur or ears sometimes, and she just lets it happen,” she said. “She’s a very cuddly and patient cat.”

Viewer Reactions

The TikTok video amassed over 1 million views and 180,000 likes as of Monday, with many users immediately knowing the culprit was going to be a cat before the camera turned around.

“That babysitter is working real hard,” joked a viewer, while a second person commented, “He’s just keeping an eye on the baby for you. So loving.”

Another commenter said: “He looks like a strict parent.”

A fourth person wrote: “Still can’t with the attitude in that look.”

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