Clearly, he hadn't bargained on the fact that "paying forward" for the stunt would entail losing his wife, his cat, his last remaining money, and any hope of shopping at the mall again for 12 months after Bloomington police ordered him not to return to the scene for a year.
There are so many of these - How do you make a cat go woof?
The monkey must weigh more than the cat itself.
"The status of the African golden cat in the wild has never been rigorously assessed, but the species is increasingly threatened by habitat degradation, loss and fragmentation, and by unsustainable hunting," according to one study.
Conservationists have recorded dramatic and rare video of the African golden cat, the continent's least-studied wild cat.
But it was his 1997 production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company that really set the cat among the pigeons.
Humpty Dumpty eggs on the breakfast menu, bare-knuckle boxers with steaks for black eyes on the à la carte, a cat that's got the cream for pudding.
And, yes, my heart was broken a little by the way Denton tried to pretend to Arnott that it was "just a cat".
Russian media reported earlier in the week that Liashko had been captured by rebels, but he later emerged unscathed, announcing his security by posting a photograph of himself, his mother and a large white cat on his blog.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat.
The legal process is ongoing: CAT are appealing against the judge's decision, and the organisation's work continues.
