"Exactly. I am the boss, and if the boss wants a monkey --- well cooler heads will prevail." Not to mention his father was actually the boss boss, and while he let Ted get away with a lot of things, he had a feeling the line was going to get drawn at monkey.
Now Ted didn't really have any feelings towards cats and pictures of them. Well he liked pictures with funny text, but he didn't think Karen would have made Lolcat pictures of her own cat. But then again ...
"Sure. I'd love to see some pictures."
And he wasn't going to address how he liked or li-i-iked Barbra.