I was stunned when I saw the news about this man not realizing his cat was inside his couch when he sold it. But who am I to judge?. A few years back, I closed my own cat inside a couch. It was one of those pull-out couches, and one morning I got up, brushed my teeth, poured cat food in my cat’s bowl, went back to make my bed (the pull-out couch), and tidied the room.