BUSINESS / DAMAGE WITH A BUSINESS MODEL
CAT LICENSES SIGNATURE SCRATCHES. SENDS SOFA OWNER AN INVOICE.
The couch is yours. The pattern is apparently not.
Local designer Mavis has informed her human that the sofa now contains an exclusiv Mavis original. Owning the furniture does not, apparantly, include permission to display the work.
Her first invoice covers three years of unautorized sitting. A seperate fee applies when guests admire the pattern, touch it, or ask what the hell happened. The human offered to replace the couch. Mavis called that destruction of cultural property.
She is willing to settle out of court. Her lawyer gets the recliner, becus he helped.
THE HUMAN STORY BEHIND THE NONSENSE
Pattern inspiration: Martha Stewart recalls her lucrative Kmart royalty deal. — E! News, 2026-10-06. This is an original fictional cat story, not a report about the real people in that coverage.
Fiction & satire. These cats and their scandals are invented.
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