Cat Plays On Small Piano To Inform His Owner That He Wants Food

Aug 14, 2020 by apost team

Winslow, a seven-year-old cat from Philadelphia reached Internet celebrity status when a video of him playing the piano to ask for food went viral on Twitter.

A Philadelphia woman named Kate Nyx has trained her cat Winslow to rap on the keys of a miniature piano when he wants food. Since then, the seven-year-old tabby has taken to the keys to asking for anything from litter box cleaning to cuddles. On August 5, Nyx posted a video on her Twitter of Winslow in action and it has since gone viral.

“He used to run around screaming all the time, and I was like, ‘This is no good’,” Nyx told SWNS. She had hoped that her cat would make music in lieu of meowing.

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“He started showing interest in the piano when he was a baby,” said the 29-year-old musician, who purchased the tiny piano more than a decade ago. She told SWNS that Winslow explored the instrument by “playing the notes and looking underneath trying to find where they were coming from.” That’s when she decided that the dissonant pinging of the toy piano might be better than his incessant meowing which she described as howling “bloody murder.”

“It became some kind of hunting reward,” said Nyx, explaining how she trained Winslow to use the piano as a means to getting rewarded. Although he’s usually just playing for snacks, she also called the piano a “tool to express himself … for attention.” “It’s his alarm system in general,” she said.

Nyx and Winslow first met when the latter was just eight weeks old. He had been in her cousin’s backyard, allegedly picking a fight with their dog. “He was a rambunctious kitten and he’s transformed into a chaotic gentleman,” she said.

“He was scarred up, covered in dirt, we had to teach him how to eat dry food and he had a serious case of ringworm,” shared Nyx, adding that both she and her then-boyfriend later caught the dermal parasite from Winslow. “I was like, ‘Do you think you’ll do this with anyone else?’ And he was like, ‘Nope,’ and so that’s how we got engaged,” she said. “We call that our engagement ringworm.”

Now, the musician’s dreams for Winslow have manifested and multiplied from the size of the small instrument to include a punk rock pet persona and a feature on her new single Bean Gotta Scream, now available on streaming platforms.

"When I said I wanted to get on the radio by the time I was thirty, I did not think it would be the month before my birthday, because of my cat," she said in a tweet on Thursday. As of this writing, the viral video has been viewed over 934,000 times.

What do you think of Winslow's performance? Let us know in the comments if your pets play any instruments, and be sure to pass this along to your loved ones!