I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

I'd love to see the look on the person's face that came across a half eaten trout on their lawn!

My cat once helped herself to the remainder of the roast beef joint that was cooling on the worktop. Never heard a cat growl so much when we tried to get it but😂😂😂 after this all meat was cat proofed.... covered with a colander and a saucepan on top 😂😂😂 another one of ours was very good at pilfering packed lunches 😂😂😂

Not my cat on this occasion (I don't know who it belonged to) but some time ago, on a lovely summer's day, I was in the kitchen cleaning a trout for my lunch. It was very warm so the back door was open. I had painstakingly descaled and deboned it and prior to grilling it, decide to pop to the loo.

When I came back downstairs, the last I saw of my lovely trout was in the jaws of a bloody daring cat as it streaked away down the garden and over the fence.

@Nosaucelikemintsauce my cat once brought a very live but rather maimed pigeon in through the cat flap. I have no idea how he did that. Once inside it got away and flew behind the sheer curtains. Cat then tried to get it back out which resulted in bloodied curtains ripped to ribbons splattered in blood and feathers,

He was not popular for a good while after that.

Same cat also brought home a (also live) peach face parakeet. We rescued it then had to go door to door looking for the owner but we weren’t game to admit how we’d come across it.

When we were growing up my sisters cat climbed in the neighbours kitchen window and was on the counter eating the steak that was defrosting for dinner. The lady of the house caught him and you could hear her screaming from streets away. He got away with a prime piece.

After I’d left home I was having a bit of a dinner party, a roast leg of lamb. We were sitting in the dining room around the table, merrily eating. I could see through to the kitchen and noticed my cat straddling the rest of the roast gnawing away. I engaged my guests in spirited conversation in an effort to distract them. Which worked until the roast rolled onto the floor with a loud thunk which got their attention. No one wanted seconds.

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A dcat trying to get a dead seagull through a cat flap. We lived quite a long way from any sea....
Dm was fuming....
So was dcat when dm binned it...
Dcat also used to open the fridge - claws in the seal bit along the sides. Her and ddog were in cahoots and always shared the booty...

One of our cats (a British Cream, sadly missed) once got blessed by our priest.

We had recently moved into a new house and had asked Father X to come round to bless the house. He went from room to room, sprinkling Holy Water liberally as he went until he reached our bedroom. More Holy Water - except the cat was lying on the bed, got rather wet and levelled a look of unutterable contempt at the priest.

I can't say that it improved his behaviour.

My cat bit my priest. She didn't break the skin, just firmly put her canines on the leg of the priest. She moved off after a pause likely to be a warning in her eyes. I was mortified!

This just reminded me of when my little cat brought two small snakes onto my home office.
Carefully removed with the aid of bbq tongs whilst wearing gardening gloves.
Only problem was that what seemed to be small snakes, uncoiled themselves to about a metre long once picked up

Caught one of our cats m, on the work surface, licking the marinade off a huge loin of venison which was New Years Eve dinner for 14 friends
They never knew!

We had a childproof lock on our fridge to keep our beagle out. They're renowned thieves

We were on holiday in Corfu last summer lounging about the pool having a pre dinner drink, when we heard a lot of shouting from up the hill. Suddenly one of the mangy cats that hung around our villa (the children had christened her Manky Minos) appeared at the gates to our driveway and trotted proudly past us all on the terrace with her mouth stuffed to the gunnels with enormous barbecued sausages. She proceeded to share these with her kittens, and possibly her husband or FWB (feline with benefits). We watched as they wolfed down their stolen meal, and then denied all knowledge when we saw our Greek neighbours out for a walk the following morning 😀

No actually he probably deemed you "head of food" at your home and brought a contribution to your supply! Its really a source of honor to them to help provide for their "family".

That sounds a lot like BC. He's notorious in the neighbourhood for being a hooligan and will happily fight anything that looks at him funny whether that's another cat, a plastic bag, my feet, his own shadow or that one time he attacked the radio because they were playing birdsong.
I love him but he's earned his nickname for a reason and the only person he isn't a little shit to is my toddler but I suspect he's sensed a kindred spirit.
Does Cat Bastard Six Dinner Sid his way round your neighbours too?

@HairyMcHairyFace - this is our cat, somewhat lovingly nicknamed CatBastard. Thankfully he either doesn’t catch small furry critters (or other people’s lunches) or he doesn’t bring them home - but he used to be notorious up our street for picking on other cats.

What with that, and the way he bites us if we don’t stroke him when he wants to be stroked, or when we stroke him and he doesn’t want it, or we simply do it wrong, his nickname is well deserved.

My tom cat (they don't seem to be great hunters tbh) is useless at catching birds, thank God, but the one time he did, it had to be a great fat feral pigeon. Too large for him to finish off, feathers everywhere, I had to take the poor thing to the vet to get pts. He's started making noises at the seagulls that land on our shed roof, so probably will be one of those next.

I too have a Clever Cat and a Simple Cat and assumed Clever Cat was responsible for all creatures brought in to the house. SC too is an expert leaf catcher and it also always super keen to show you her sister's catches.

We've had a couple of small, fast birds, that have been caught and brought in and on reviewing the cameras it has been proved to be SC catching them.

She may not be interested in mice or actual proper hunting, but if something flies anywhere near her head, she WILL catch it!

I fear bat season every year. If one ever gives her the chance, she will definitely catch it!

Her absolute favourite is frogs though. Thankfully she doesn't pick them up, or kill them (they obviously taste foul, thank god), but she does play with them and hold them down with her paws.

I never knew frogs could scream until last summer...

One of mine (aka Simple Cat) is a shit hunter, her brother (aka Bastard Cat) can drop an almost dead mouse under her nose and she'll let it go free. She'll do her best "come and look at what I caught" yowl and it'll be a leaf or some food the toddler dropped and will expect you to praise her hunting. And yet somehow she's managed to catch a live bat twice.
The first time we assumed BC had caught and dropped it or she'd found a dying one but the second time I witnessed her speed and skill. Clearly her two brain cells managed to meet and create a plan to leap and catch. Or maybe it's an evolutionary throwback. Unfortunately for her she's now banned from going outside at night during bat season.

😳 how can they be so terrifying but so adorable at the same time?

😯

Let's be honest about the narrative,as for me it should be casual issue with the cat,

My now indoor cat used to be an outdoor cat. She refused to come indoors. Now she refuses to go outside. Bloody cat

Anyway, when she was an outdoor cat, she was a very good mouser. She didn’t kill them the ordinary way….noooooo.

She would take them to where there was a bucket of water and then drowned them. Sadist

Many years ago on a hot summer Sunday, my cat came home with a huge slab of roast pork. There was no way she was going to give it up. i can just imagine the look of sheer disbelief as the cook found it missing from their kitchen. I also wonder what they had to eat for the rest of the week as it was massive

Mine sounded like a low budget Japanese movie (very specific because I used to watch them as a child) he even did the dramatic eye thing