It's the Most Wonderful Time of Year for This Senior Cat Who Loves WatchingThe Grinchon Repeat

Mar. 15, 2025

Ella the cat watching ‘The Grinch’; a still from ‘The Grinch’.Photo:grabsellawatchestv/TikTok; Illumination/Universal/Kobal/Shutterstock

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It’sGrinchseason, and nobody is more excited than Ella the cat!

The rescue feline — and film connoisseur — has over 60 million likes and nearly 800,000 followers on TikTok (@ellawatchestv_), where her owner, Emily Beck, shares videos of her pet engaging in her favorite pastime: watching movies, more specifically,The Grinch.

Ella, the senior cat who loves watching ‘The Grinch’.grabsellawatchestv/TikTok

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Posted Dec. 11,the video showsclips of the Grinch-obsessed kitty intensely watching the movie. It also includes text explaining Ella’s love story with the animated flick.

“Five years ago, l adopted a senior cat that turned out to be a huge fan of the Grinch,” Beck captioned the start of the TikTok. “I would put it on for her when I was doing chores to keep her occupied.”

Ella’s growing obsession with the film, Beck said, led to a significant change in their household.

“I was never a huge Grinch fan, but now l buy her anything Grinch-related,” the owner wrote before revealing that one such item is a “jumbo-sized Grinch pillow,” which, for scale, has a head larger than the cat.

Ella sleeping on her Grinch pillow.Ella resting on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow.Ella sleeping on her Grinch pillow.PHOTO:grabsellawatchestv/TikTokElla resting on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow.PHOTO:grabsellawatchestv/TikTok

Ella sleeping on her Grinch pillow.Ella resting on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow.

Ella sleeping on her Grinch pillow.

Ella resting on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow.

Ella sleeping on her Grinch pillow.PHOTO:grabsellawatchestv/TikTokElla resting on her ‘jumbo’ Grinch pillow.PHOTO:grabsellawatchestv/TikTok

But that doesn’t bother Ella, who snoozes peacefully on the giant Grinchin one of her TikTok clips.

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Ella watching ‘The Grinch’.grabsellawatchestv/TikTok

As for how she discovered her cat’s holiday obsession, Beck “turned on the new Grinch movie one day after work, and [Ella] was ENTHRALLED 🤣,” the owner revealed in a TikTok comment.

Beck said she and Ella “watch something together” in the morning and “right before we go to bed,” the owner toldNewsweeklast year. “It has become our way to bond!”

“I think she’s hysterical,” Beck told the outlet of Ella. “I adopted her when she was 10, and I had no idea she would be so animated and silly. If this is what makes her happy, I’m happy to do it forever.”

source: people.com