Ikea Cats!

This "behind the scenes" video of a hundred cats being released in Ikea is all the rage on the internet today.  It's pretty adorable stuff!  But for me, it raises more questions than it answers.

A hundred cats?  Is that literal?  Because I see maybe two dozen cats at most.  

As I watched the video, I silently asked each kitty, "Are you the one who will pee somewhere inappropriate?"  Because you know one of those cats peed in the ball pit, or behind a dresser or something.  At LEAST one cat.

What happens to the customer who buys the thing that got peed on?  Will they take it home and question their own sanity?  Because presumably the store's customers don't realize that a large number of cats (if not a hundred) were recently wandering around the store.  If you bought something from Ikea and it smelled like cat pee, would you wonder what happened?  Or would you just blame it on the weird laminate off-gassing chemicals?

Did you notice that one cat is naked, while another cat is wearing two cats' worth of fur?  VERY SUSPICIOUS.

Where do you get big white fluffy cats like that?  Because I want one.  I have two older orange models that should be worth something for trade-in.  They're like the size of two cats each, so that's a four cat value!  (They're not fat - just really big.  Like Maine Coon Cat big.)

What about customers with cat allergies?  Not just being in the store - but imagine being the allergic person who buys that coverlet.  Adorable as it was to see a cat snoozing happily atop it, I know a lot of people's noses are probably itching just at the thought of it.

Some of the cats were apparently professional cat actors.  (That's a real thing, I promise.)  The others were just very pretty kitties.  Show kitties, I suspect, given their easy demeanor in public, and the way their owners held them for display.  

Which makes me wonder, where did the cat owners hear about this?  Are there newspaper ads asking for cat tryouts?  How do I get in on that action?  I have one cat who would sit around looking bored and cynical.  That's a skill.  I could market that.

How many cats escaped into the rest of the store?  Those stand-up barricades were clearly no match for the sassy cats' ability to trot blithely along the overhead girders.  Are any cats still missing?  Is that Ikea now home to a roving band of fluffy white cats?  

How many generations of fluffy white cats have to be raised in an Ikea before they get their own fake Swedish name?  (Disappointingly, the Swedish word for cat is just "katt."  I was hoping for at least an umlaut.)

How mad would you be to get one of those long silky white hairs in your next order of Swedish meatballs?  Pretty mad, I'm betting.  And yet, no matter how violently they went over the store with sticky tape rollers, I can guarantee you that the escape velocity of a cat hair is truly an impressive thing.