McGlone got a phone call from someone working at the Big Sandy Superstore to let her know Inky was somewhere inside
A missing cat was found hiding in a furniture factory — weeks after it got there by stowing away in a recliner chair.
Inky the cat vanished after Randi McGlone bought and then returned a new recliner.
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People Magazine reports that McGlone, who lives in Kentucky, decided she didn’t really like her new chair so she returned it on March 1.
The movers who came to pick up the chair had no idea Inky the cat was hiding inside.
McGlone said she realized Inky was missing soon after the workers left her house in Ashland.
She didn’t have to do any detective work — Inky jumped out and fled into the furniture warehouse as soon as the movers pulled the recliner out of the truck.
McGlone got a phone call from someone working at the Big Sandy Superstore to let her know Inky was somewhere inside.
McGlone subsequently visited the warehouse three times over three weeks, trying to coax Inky out of hiding.
“I didn’t think I’d ever see her again,” McGlone said of the cat she calls her “emotional support” pet.
Warehouse workers were eventually able to catch Inky and called McGlone to give her the good news.
Inky and McGlone are now reunited.
People notes that this is by no means the first “cat-in-a-chair” story. They reported a similar incident in 2022 — when a cat caught in a recliner was donated to a Colorado thrift store along with the chair.
The animal’s frantic owners were eventually able to retrieve him.
Maybe cats are just stupid.
