I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

My cat once came home with a nice hot large battered cod

I don't believe they waited for the cat to die, sadly.

Apparently, when Thomas Hardy died, he asked for his heart to be buried in the village where he was born, in Dorset. (The rest of him was cremated and sent to Westminster Abbey).

The gravedigger left it on the table while he went to get his spade and when he turned round, the bloody cat had nabbed it and eaten it.

So they had to wait for the cat to die and then bury him where T Hardy's heart was supposed to be.

Cats

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/getting-to-the-heart-of-thomas-hardy-1306968.html

Yes. Not had a single issue with foxes in 30 years, they don’t even get into the facility. Only rats, and on this occasion a cat. Totally my fault that I left one part weak enough that a cat could get through. Not the responsibility of the cat owners though hey, when they enter your property despite your best efforts and torture and kill over 20 animals you’ve taken good care of for a month before they’d even hatched

We lost an elderly guinea to a cat attack - pigs live in indoors (in considerable luxury I might add), but a cat got into the house without us realising. We were in the garden and suddenly realised that it was trotting nimbly through our back door with the pig in its mouth, it was awful, we tried to catch the cat but of course that was futile. Felt quite sick reading about the headless guineas in a PP and just hope ours died of shock before the cat got properly stuck in

That said, and as horrific as it was, I've still read through this thread and laughed at some of the stories. The whole point of cats is that they give zero fucks, murder for fun, are utterly self-centred and totally ruthless. It's part of their charm. They're not like dogs who can be trained.

Lesson learned though. Indoor piggie cage now firmly cat-proofed.

Oh my god a whole chicken, you must have a big cat 🤣🤣🤣

My cat came home yowling once with a big chunk of chicken shish kebab in her mouth! They're absolute scavengers!!

Your poor neighbour

I had not long moved in to my old house my cat bought home a joint of pork three times that fat cat bought someone's lunch home before they learned to close their window on a Sunday THREE TIMES IN JUST OVER A MONTH

He was a very fat cat on a strict diet so I introduced cheat day every Sunday to try and stop him

Just this morning I got a message to tell me that the neighbour's cat had stolen my dd's size 4 runner.

Name changed because most people who know me know this awful, embarrassing story.

I was not living in the UK at the time, I was in an African country. My dog vanished next door to the neighbour's property and came back proudly bearing a goat's head, which she had stolen. My neighbour was a butcher. That would be bad enough in this country. Over there it was far far worse, as she returned to find me in front of a group of local clients. Meat, such as goat, was an expensive, luxurious food that they would like to feed their children, and often could not afford to. Dogs were a low down animal and it was certainly not appropriate for my dog to be eating meat in front of local people. It was about as culturally sensitive as nipping into the food bank, spotting a delivery of great quality fresh veg and swiping the lot for my pet rats.

Your cat is gangsta!

I totally can't decide whether to congratulate her on going out and getting what she wanted, or, condemn her for the forcible abduction of a minor.

Re chicken: when I was married we left our 2 kitties in the care of a neighbour for the weekend to find the plastic wrapping and foam tray for a chicken under the sofa. They had dragged it through the catflap. We chose not to consult with the neighbours.

my cat once came home with a live goldfish. When I looked out of my window there were several just flapping around in the grass in my garden. I have fish tanks so filled buckets with dechlorinated water but as fast as I was picking them up he was bringing more. Turns out a neighbour was cleaning their pond and had out all his fish in buckets!

Both my cats are hunters. Little Tennyson brought a dead mouse home and ripped it apart last week and I can't leave my food unattended for a second. He's 9 months old and I suspect people's barbecues won't be safe next summer.

I've NEVER asked my children to lie but when our cat wrestled a biggish koi carp through the cat flap I begged them not to tell a soul!

Well yes,what if that’s a mn magic chicken that feed 5 for 12days, inc sporty kids and tall husband
The poor family will now have to all share an enormous shop bought sandwich that’ll last for 4 days

I hope it wasn't your partner who told you that 🤪

@Aylestone if you have fish/birds etc that are vulnerable to attack you are responsible for keeping them in an attack proof enclosure. It could just as easily be a fox or other wild animal that gets in. Our neighbours had a wire mesh just below the surface of their pond to stop this problem.

Wow @Aylestone you didn't just kill the thread, you buried it six feet deep and danced on its grave. I'm actually awestruck

Oh it's only a bit of fun. Lighten up.

The mouse very likely died of shock shortly afterwards. But cats will be cats, I know.

@Tallisker the carp owners should have protected their pond with a net. Birds of prey will happily hunt fish too.

My old cat once came home with a cooked and still warm pork chop. It was filthy from being dragged through the muck, but he was very proud of his efforts. I think it may have been the next door neighbour's, never dared to ask them.

And it’s not just the money, you can spend years growing them on and some of them get really friendly, they do have personalities and you get really attached to them when you spend time with them every day. It’s really shit that people have animals that do things that’ll leave other people extremely distraught (and then laugh about it on mn). My story is that I deal in exotic animals. I managed to successfully breed an extremely rare species of bird (imported the eggs from the first person who’d managed to breed them in captivity), successfully incubated, hatched and raised 21 of them to the point where they could be moved into an outside enclosure. The enclosure had been successfully reinforced against rats which we’d had problems with previously, but one night a cat managed to rip into it from an enjoining enclosure and killed every single bird.

Our dog escaped his tether and stole a campers breakfast, he had wolfed down so much food he was then sick, sick right outside someones tent. I was getting poo bags and some scissors ready (to cut any gross grass) and the tent owner found the big pile of sick, he blamed his very cery hungover teenage son. As he’s kept us awake being drunk and loud we didn’t own up, we did however pay for breakfast in the pub for the poor family who had their breakfast stolen.

And don't get me started on Ed's sister Tabitha who used to bring home live frogs from the neighbours pond and leave them hopping all over my utility!!!

OMG this thread has made me howl. Has taken me back to my own little black and white bruiser called Eddie (RIP Ed) who loved to wind up our crazy neighbour lady. He would regularly visit her house through her cats' catflap and eat their food, cue a visit from the crazy neighbour to tell us off. She bought a magnetic cat flap to stop him .... and Eddie would wait patiently by her door for her cats to activate the flap before following them in and stealing their food. Cue another visit from crazy neighbour telling DH and I off. I don't know a) what she thought I should do - put him on the naughty step? and b) why we took the telling off each time without argument but I was less feisty in my younger days! Then Eddie came home once with a cooked pork joint and DH and I vowed we wouldn't open the door to her again! I bloody loved that cat!