I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

Argh yes! As ours was doing the "hng hng hng" noise they'd be walking from the hard-floored kitchen or bathroom into the carpeted hallway. Whereupon they would stop and chunder. Sometimes with their back paws still on the hard flooring. Little git.

@AppleDumplingWithCustard yodelling here too!

80% of the house has hard flooring due to my (cat) allergies she always puked on soft furnishings 🙄💔 miss my girl x

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Mine used to yodel before throwing up.

We once had a cat whose preliminary chunder noise was almost identical to the bassline in Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic. I can't hear that track without a smile of nostalgia.

Many years back, talking maybe 35 my sister had a gorgeous black cat named Shady Lady. She got home from work to find a trail of bright yellow and blue feathers from the catflap. Followed them to her bedroom, Shady had left the decapitated remains of some poor neighbours pet budgie on her pillow.

So very true. I'm not a morning person at all, but the sound of the cat yowling at the bottom of the bed at 6am on Boxing Day when she announced her arrival with a live mouse has never woken me up or got me out of bed quicker!

the sound of a cat vomiting

I have often thought that if some alarm clock manufacturer would make this the "wake up" sound, nobody would EVER sleep in again @ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves

Ha ha! They're disgusting creatures aren't they?! Thankfully my cat seems to think rats aren't edible so she kills them but leaves them whole (so far at least). Mice are mostly edible, except their stomachs. The amount of mouse stomachs we find on the floor downstairs is vile.

I'm loving this cold weather. Everything is hiding at the moment, so other than the 4am blackbird the other week, it's been a peaceful couple of weeks!

I'll pay for it in the summer I'm sure.

Haha that reminded me of a cat we had when I still lived at home with my parents. She was a great ratter and every day she’d catch at least one. Most days we’d find a rat’s backside outside the back door - she would eat the top half it seemed. That house’s back garden must be full of rat skeleton bottoms!

My two boys did the same and hauled it over at least 4 six ft fences as the other neighbours were on holiday 😂.

Other than possibly the sound of a cat vomiting, is there anything that will wake you up quicker in the middle of the night than a cat's yowls of pride to be presenting you with their latest gift?!

I can imagine one of mine catching a live bat. She's so quick if something flies over her and can leap far higher than you'd think. We have bats near us and I have seen her watching them in the garden, so it's a real distinct possibility that she might bring one home one day.

She's not generally a hunter (that's her sister's job), but she'll always try and catch a bird if it gets too close. She's managed to catch a wren and a robin so far. The robin lived to see another day (though did looks rather scraggy for a while!), but the poor little wren didn't.

Her sister is a mouse machine though, which is pretty handy to be fair. It's just annoying when she brings them in alive and even more annoying when they die under your furniture and you don't realise for a few days 😷

My friends used to live near a ford and it was well populated with voles. Her cats didn't seem to like the tails, so the amount of times I'd hear "bloody hell - another vole's arse!" when I stayed!

I have to keep our cat food pouches in a metal tin, shut in a cupboard, else my own bloody cats steal them!

They haven't (yet) brought home anyone else's felix pouch, so I'm confident it isn't my cat that's stealing yours!

We have had to knock on neighbours before to say we've just seen one of our cats climbing in through their windows (thankfully for them and us, they've now had air con installed in their house, so summer open windows are a thing of the past!) and another neighbour said one of our cats wandered in to her bedroom one morning when she was having a cup of tea in bed!

They probably say to each other - "It's that fecking cat again! Throw him a pouch of Felix, Harold/ Inge, otherwise he'll have the bacon again"

Every morning at around 7:20am my cat strolls through the cat flap with a half chewed pouch of Felix in his mouth. It's become a novelty for us at breakfast waiting for him to arrive. It's been going on for about 4 months now. No idea which house he's pinching from and am too ashamed to post it on the neighbourhood fb page.
I cant believe the house he's stealing from haven't cottoned onto it yet.

My cat, fortunately or unfortunately ( not sure now after reading some of these 😂 ) sticks to mice and voles. He did outdo himself once though by bringing home a live bat. Luckily for me catface had been holding the bat gently under his paw until his yowls of triumph brought me downstairs to see what the fuss was about so I was easily able to transfer it to a box. I took it to a vet who passed it onto a local bat specialist. It was released unharmed 2 days later but only after I’d had a phone call asking if I’d been bitten as bats can sometimes carry virus’s 😂. I hadn’t ( couldn’t speak for the cat though) and I was more interested in how he’d caught it in the first place. They were as baffled as I was as it’s very unusual for a cat to catch a healthy adult bat. It was a daubenton’s bat for anyone interested and they live near water. I live about 600m from a canal.

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We've had cats doing that.

We thought they were tasting it . . .

Are you sure that she was washing it? She might have been tenderising it!

My dog ate 1lb lentils & then proceeded to pebbledash neighbors gable wall 😂

Our Labrador stole a fisherman's lunch , she also stole a whole packet of biscuits from someone's picnic but her best theft was a whole box of cat biscuits . She was found lying on the floor groaning with very a very swollen belly . One of the cats bought a live baby rabbit home and sat under the table with it , washing it like a kitten.

Someone I know was gifted half a roast leg of lamb one Easter Sunday afternoon. The cat carried it proudly down the garden path to the back door and dropped it at her feet. It had a little grass and mud on it, maybe from being dragged, maybe from being dropped as the cat scaled the garden wall. The recipient was horrified but cut off a bit for the cat before binning it. (The meat, not the cat).

One of our cats (a beautiful tabby, sadly missed) brought us a slow worm, which she promptly bit in half. The sight of it still moving around, despite having been bisected, is not one that I'll forget in a hurry!

The most my cat ever brought me was ruddy garden worms! The trog lol

Ha ha that’s gd, we once had someone’s dog jump and eat our picnic food 🤣 good job found it funny owner was mortified

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