Those little balls of fluff running all around the playroom are guinea pigs, and the cat is trying heroically to ignore them. They don’t want to be ignored. Maybe the cat is preparing for an audition as a Buckingham Palace guard. Maybe the guinea pigs are helping him rehearse.
If you can get a cat to stop ignoring you, that’s an achievement.
When he finally decided to get out of there, they both followed him. I bet he was thinking #$*@!! 🙂
Oh, they must have had a reason for being so fond of that cat!
It seemed like an amicable relationship.