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Theo the cat scrimped and saved for months to afford a new couch from Pier 1 Imports, so  when sat down for the first time and found the couch was massively defective, you might guess he’d be upset. But friends say he wasn’t put off at all.

“He’s obsessing for months over this couch,” said friend Ashley Wallace. “He’s going on and on about it. Then it gets delivered, he sits down to watch his favorite show – Real Housewives of Atlanta – and sinks about a foot into the cushions.”

According to Wallace, Pier 1 issued a recall on this particular model of couch due to inadequately stuffed cushions.

“He could get his money back or a brand new sofa. But Theo wants to keep it,” she said. “Honestly, I think he likes it. No one else is going to sit there, I’ll give him that.”

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In court proceedings held Wednesday morning, Taco the cat entered a plea of “not guilty” on charges of negligence and vandalism connected to the destruction of a dinner plate in December of 2015.

The plea came as a shock to many following the case, as investigators had long been in possession of compelling photographic evidence depicting Taco standing over the shattered plate with what some have described as a “frantic” look on his face. The prosecutor in the case submitted the photo at the hearing today.

“It’s entirely circumstantial,” Ronald Eisley, Taco’s attorney, said at a press conference held shortly after the plea. “Just because my client was near the scene of the incident has no bearing on whether he is responsible for it, and we intend to fight these charges all the way to the highest court if we have to.”

Mr. Eisley did not respond to follow-up questions from press.

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Stella the cat started her journalism career as an intern at The Village Voice twelve years ago. Following a short stint as a stringer at Newsday, the kitty wordsmith found a home as art critic for Time Out New York in 2011. Five years into what she’s long told friends was her dream job, Stella is starting to burn out. 

Friends and co-workers say it’s starting to show in the cat’s work. An audit of her reviews of gallery shows over the past five years shows that her earlier pieces tended to be upbeat and positive. More recent reviews, however, are often biting, sarcastic, and spiritless.

“Stella’s probably been to, I dunno, 1,500 art openings at this point,” said Time Out assistant events editor Nicole Thackery. “She’s seen a lot of great art, but a lot of really bad stuff, too.”

Thackery thinks that all the bad stuff is starting to get to Stella.

“We’ve talked about maybe letting her take a sabbatical to work on some book projects she’s been kicking around,” said Thackery. “You know, clear her head, let her rediscover what she initially loved about this beat.”

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