Home Depot Cat Becomes TikTok Star

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Cats are indispensable workers. From bodega cats to brewery cats, feline friends assistance concern owners support rodents astatine bay and pull caller customers. But a Home Depot feline named Leo is putting a New Jersey determination of the location betterment store concatenation connected the representation — and gathering a societal media pursuing successful the process.

Home Depot feline garners TikTok fame

Leo the feline is the feline-in-residence astatine the Home Depot store successful Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He was a barn feline earlier arriving astatine the store past summer. Customer Jeffrey Simpkins, who goes by @cat_dad_2020 connected TikTok, films the furry person during his buying trips.

“He has 2 sanction tags that accidental ‘Hello my sanction is Leo,’ and past the different 1 says similar ‘Mount Laurel Store,’ truthful he’s registered to the store,” Simpkins told ABC 7 Chicago.

Simpkins is simply a feline dada himself. In fact, helium often shops with his 2 feline friends, Will and Grace. When helium started documenting Leo connected TikTok, his societal media prima began rising. Simpkins estimates that each of the Leo videos connected his TikTok relationship person astir 50 cardinal views.

Simpkins attributes the Home Depot cat’s popularity to “his unsocial personality, similar he’s friendly, helium wears covering dissimilar different cats, and helium has respective places helium sleeps at.”

Cat lovers encouraged to bash much than conscionable ‘like’ Leo

Leo’s fans admit the feline’s outgoing vibe.

“I’m a large feline person, and I emotion cats truthful I’m truly excited to spot him. It’s my archetypal clip seeing him successful person, and I truly emotion that helium wears shirts,” Theo Lythberg of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, told ABC 7 Chicago.

“It is the past week of summer, truthful we figured let’s spell spot the feline and marque the astir of it and spot if we tin beryllium portion of his instrumentality club,” Michelle Lythberg added.

They’re not the lone ones fawning implicit Leo. Home Depot employees instrumentality turns caring for the cat, feeding him and taking him to the vet.

@cat_dad_2020

Leo’s nightly regular ?@The Home Depot #catdad2020 #catsoftiktok #homedepot

♬ archetypal dependable – ?Jeff (cat_dad_2020)

But Simpkins isn’t conscionable filming Leo the Cat for societal media clout. His anticipation is that feline lovers volition donate to carnal shelters successful the country – oregon adjacent better, follow a feline of their own.

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