How do I get a sprite animation to play as a 'pause' button for a tetris game?

I'm making a cute tetris clone game featuring cats

I'm using construct 2 and my problem is when I press 'p' (it'll change to touch screen later) I'm using timescale to stop the time and so everything is paused and a tiled background saying 'paused' is set visible.

I also want a sprite animation to show up during the pause but the animation (has 20 frames) is not playing at all and is frozen. Here is how the code looks like.

How can I get the sprite animation to play during pause?

Maybe you can change object time scale on start layout.

OnStartLayout -> Set Object Time Scale -> Object : Pause, Time Scale : 1

try set time scale to 0.001 and animation speed for cat 999

Thank you!

I did the set obj time scale to 1 when the pause button was pressed for the cat and fiddled around with 'create obj' at start layout and fiddled with the visible and invisible. everything works now!