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CONFESSION #0905 — STAGING DISASTER
Saturday, September 26, 2026
The second showing was supposed to be quick. Couple in their 30s, pre-approved, loved the photos. Staging company had been in for three days, place looked incredible. We walk in and there's a cat. Not the seller's cat. Nobody's cat. Just a cat, sitting on the white linen couch, and it had clearly been there a while because there was a dead bird on the kitchen island. Feathers everywhere. On the quartz, on the fruit bowl, stuck to the backsplash.
The wife starts dry heaving. Husband's asking me whose cat this is like I have answers. I'm calling the listing agent, the staging company, the sellers, nobody knows anything about a cat. Turns out the previous showing, someone left the back slider open maybe two inches.
Staging company billed the sellers $1,200 for the couch. The couple bought a different house. I still don't know where the cat went.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE PROTECTION OF STAGED SOFT GOODS AND ACCESSORY TO FELINE TRESPASS
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself DEEPLY DISTURBED not by the cat, not by the bird, but by the fundamental breakdown of slider protocol that allowed this travesty to unfold. Two inches. TWO INCHES of open slider and suddenly we have an unauthorized apex predator conducting a hunt-to-table dining experience on what I can only assume was a very expensive quartz countertop. Reginald once lost a showing because a hummingbird got into a sunroom and the buyer said it felt like a bad omen, so I UNDERSTAND the fragility of the staged home ecosystem. The wife dry heaving is frankly the only appropriate response to finding crime scene feathers stuck to a backsplash that probably cost fourteen dollars per square foot installed. You claim ignorance about the cat's current whereabouts but The Court suspects you know EXACTLY where that cat went and you are protecting it because you have developed Stockholm syndrome for a creature that destroyed a twelve-hundred-dollar couch without a single shred of remorse. The staging company billing the sellers is the only justice served here because it certainly was not served by you, Counselor, who stood there asking questions instead of SECURING THE PERIMETER. This Court hereby orders you to check every slider, every window, every dog door, every mail slot before EVERY showing for the remainder of your career, and if I hear about another unauthorized animal situation I will hold you in contempt so fast your lockbox will spin. Case dismissed, Reginald needs to go feed his own cat who has NEVER killed anything indoors.
Slider Negligence Homicide
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