No, that's not the issue. I'm able to place any other piece of furniture (including pets) with no problems. And I've tried placing the lobster in multiple rooms of multiple houses (regular and GH), none of which I have anywhere near 600 furniture items. This bug only applies to this one piece of furniture. And I'm starting to think no one else has this problem.
While I'm posting in this thread, I'd like to bring up the issue with the 1-2 second "freeze" that occurs every now and again (sometimes more frequently than other times). It was mentioned in another thread but the thread was not for posting bugs. I thought this was just affecting me until someone else mentioned it. It's not a huge deal. Doesn't bother me too much, though it has contributed to me losing a bee or having my gralats taken (when farming), so it is an annoyance. Is this issue known? Is there any particular reason it's happening? Or is it just a side-effect of the greatly increased playerbase of Classic.
One final thing, I could have sworn I purchased the white halo hat years ago, but I currently don't have it in my hat inventory. I recently started playing after about a 2-year absence. I did notice that my hats were in a slightly different order. Is it at all possible that one or two could have been accidently removed? I know it's still in the game because I saw someone wearing it. I contacted toonslab but they said I must be mistaken. Though I was also inquiring about a head and some furniture items. I believe I could have been mistaken about those, but this hat, I'm so sure I bought it. I was reminded that it was sold at mad hatter's for 2500 gralats (I believe?). I had more gralats than I knew what to do with back then so I bought any hat that interested me (including some much more expensive ones) and i was definitely interested in this hat. Any help would be appreciated.
Sorry for the long post. I didn't want to double (or triple) post.