Cat Owner Bakes Chocolate Chip Cookies, but There's an Obvious Problem

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A feline's hilarious attempt to sabotage her owner's freshly baked cookies has gone viral, leaving internet users in hysterics.
Cat owner Megan Amanda, 28, was preparing for a family event earlier in July by whipping up some chocolate chip cookies and lemon bars for the guests. If that wasn't enough, she was also trying to watch reality show The Bachelor by going in and out of the kitchen when she could.
After taking the first batch of cookies out of the oven, Amanda, from Illinois, left them on the counter to cool. She told Newsweek that they were out for "probably three to five minutes" while she went into the other room to watch the rose ceremony on the television show.
But, when Amanda returned to the kitchen, her freshly baked delights didn't look so perfect after all. Indeed, her cat Luna appeared to have taken it upon herself to test one of the cookies by stepping on it, leaving a perfect paw print.
The batch of cookies are on a tray, left, including one with a paw print from Luna, right.
The batch of cookies are on a tray, left, including one with a paw print from Luna, right.
@megs.amanda / TikTok
"When I came back in, I noticed the paw print cookie and was in absolute shock that she had somehow managed to step on only of them, and that she made such a cute perfect paw print in that cookie," Amanda said.
"She obviously didn't vacate the scene of the crime and try to implicate her two other cat siblings and managed to look insanely guilty in the video," she continued.
Although Amanda didn't see Luna sabotage the cookie, she wasn't entirely surprised by her antics. She jokes that the dog is "a notorious counter surfer," the owner is constantly having to remove her from the kitchen surfaces.
"She's definitely speedy as it had to have happened in the three to five minutes I was out of the room," Amanda continued.
The bemused cat owner couldn't resist sharing Luna's mischief on TikTok (@megs.amanda) with a video showing the paw print in one of the cookies. The clip has left internet users in stitches, going viral with over 3.8 million views and almost 600,000 likes on TikTok at the time of writing.
Alongside the clip, the caption jokes: "Any guesses on who's the culprit?"
Amanda said she thought it was a funny moment to capture, but she had no idea it would generate quite this much attention on social media. Of course, many people jumped to Luna's defense, while others suggested that Amanda should have kept the incriminating cookie in resin to cherish it.
Unfortunately, the owner tried to freeze the cookie and it crumbled, so it wound up in the trash ultimately. Amanda said that this is "one of [her] biggest regrets" because the resin idea would have been so funny.
Amanda continued: "I thought the idea was funny, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect this response. RIP my notifications. I have been posting on my TikTok for a few years now, and this is the first time something like this has happened to me. It's such a cool and surreal moment."
Internet users can't get enough of Luna's artwork, leading to more than 2,200 comments on the viral TikTok post so far.
One comment reads: "she wanted to make her mark."
Another TikTok user wrote: "Must've been the oven."
A third person posted: "let's call that quality control."
One comment read: "He knew you forgot to a dash of beans."
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