Am I the only one who didn't know

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I was looking for something to get for our indoor cats when I came across a wheel that they can run in, thinking this is great I was looking for a good one, the prices varied from 40-60 pounds. But then I saw one for about 4k, it looked just the same as the others apart from thé price.
When I mentioned this to someone at work they said yes, people do this to sell sex, or sex trafficking or something just as horrendous! I was shocked and thought but surely the police would be all over it, they said it's organised crime?
What the hell!
Has anyone heard of this and seen anything like it, oh I saw this on Amazon.
And if so, do you have thoughts on whether it's true.

Cat wheels exist!?!?

What have we become.

They use them to have the ability to full out sprint, something that is usually reserved for getting away from dogs, that big, scary, FIV infected tomcat from the house down the road or destroying the house like a Tom and Jerry cartoon sometime around 4am. And to sleep in, going by DD2's last rescue/ex breeding queen Bengal.

Thanks, @NeverDropYourMooncup . That does sound positive. I had visions of them going slavishly round like a hamster, Which is ok for hamsters I guess , as they have a lower level of cognition. But it sounds like cats use them just to widen an already broad behaviour set.
The 4am zoomies sound fun. I only have a dog and their zoomies tend to be early evening

The scariest thing about these baffling conspiracy theories is that some people actually believe they are true. The walk amongst us. They post on Mumsnet.
I occasionally spend an entertaining hour or so on Websleuths, on their conspiracy theories section, just to confirm that I am, indeed, quite sane.

I know, I never said I believed that.

Mmmm. I don't think it's impossible that Amazon and other enormous online sellers would be used to run a type of money laundering. The crims are very creative.
However it is also possible that the cat wheel emporium accidentally missed off the decimal point for the sale price, and they meant to say £40.

I just assumed people did this to prevent people buying the item when they had run out of stock but didn't want to take the listing down.

That's another thought. Could be all kinds of things really.

I am confused.

You assumed correctly.

That or some kind of new stripper routine. Not lap dancing, not pole dancing, but ... wheel dancing.

When you unpack your cat wheel maybe half a dozen illegal immigrants fall out and run away?

Stop the wheels!

I cannot imagine a cat running round on a wheel like a bloody hamster. Sounds preposterous frankly. Cats run around to chase things and catch prey, not so they can remain on the same spot but burn calories. They are too intelligent for that I reckon.

As for the sex trafficking thing. I think it's more likely a typo?!

Have you ever heard the expression ' not as green as you are cabbage looking. What's with all the QAnon style threads. Yesterday a Teletubbies house today cat wheels!

Yes this. People who didn’t understand search engines and seo thought that trafficking was the most plausible explanation for it.

@BillieWipercats do run on wheels!! I had one for my cats but it wasn’t really big enough

Haha! I can't believe it! I don't think any one I ever had would. It sounds kinda cute though 😁