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I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

436 replies

Duckingella · 14/01/2024 15:54

Just that really

My cat has just turned up on my patio with a small roasted chicken in his greedy mouth.

He has form for sneaking into neighbours houses through doors and we windows.

I can't really go knocking on doors to ask if anyone is moving missing their dinner

Mortified doesn't cover it

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Tallisker · 14/01/2024 19:29

Big koi carp are extremely expensive, the pond owners must have been livid.

teraculum29 · 14/01/2024 19:29

Ohh jeez,
what amusing stories I can read I really had a good laugh.
My cat in theirs entire 8 years brought home 3 and half mice, and 2 half alive birds chicks.🤗😂

Snoozymoozy · 14/01/2024 19:28

My dog once caught a scent and ran off. He was eventually tracked down and retrieved from the kitchen of the local pub 😳

Ohyay · 14/01/2024 19:26

My cat once brought home a mouse... in a mouse trap. Another cats collar - luckily it had a phone number on and then a small purse with ID 🤣

lovelyoldtree · 14/01/2024 19:25

Oh OP that's embarrassing but so funny.
When I was a kid my parents were not long home from work when our neighbours (who luckily were also friends) told them that our dog who was a dreadful thief had got out, crossed the road and eaten their kids dinners. My poor mum had had a hard day and burst into tears!

CheekyLittleElf · 14/01/2024 19:24

If your cats got form perhaps you should keep it contained. If you're cat snook into my house I'd likely have a severe asthma attack

DramaAlpaca · 14/01/2024 19:23

Our childhood cat in the late 60s was very smart. He figured out how to open the fridge door by standing upright on his back legs and hooking the door open with his front paw. He'd then help himself to whatever he fancied. My mum finally managed to outwit him by tying the handle of the fridge to the cupboard handle next to it with a headscarf.

borntobequiet · 14/01/2024 19:23

My cat brought home a baby rabbit, quite unharmed. I think she picked it up as though it were a kitten. She looked both proud of it and puzzled as to what to do with it. I took it back to the field and hoped it would be OK.

Emotionalsupportviper · 14/01/2024 19:22

maddiemookins16mum · 14/01/2024 16:30

Many years ago one of our cats raided a koi carp pond in one of our neighbours garden. Each morning we’d go downstairs to find a huge dead fish lying on the door mat inside by the kitchen door. He did three of them over three nights until we barricaded the cat flap.

Bloody hell! 😧

That's probably about a million quid's worth!

Imnotthemonalisa · 14/01/2024 19:21

My neighbour called me over to retrieve our cat from her kitchen and to show me the evidence of the partly eaten roast chicken that had been resting. I was mortified but she said not to worry as she would give the chewed bits to her DH and she'd eat from the side that had remained cat free. She's divorced now.

bellocchild · 14/01/2024 19:20

Our hyper-greedy cat entered neighbours' flat through cat flap, uninvited. Climbed up on fridge-freezer to steal their cats' frozen fish dinner. Fell off fridge-freezer, put leg through handle, and broke it. Hopped three-legged over two gardens with loot. A couple of years later, with slightly crooked leg, was discovered climbing over 5-foot fence to steal new neighbours' Sunday chicken carcase, and clamber back home with it. Greedy to the end.

Boobiliciousness · 14/01/2024 19:18

I've just been to the pub without the kids (six months and 2.5 years) and thought my day had peaked. I was wrong.

Happyher · 14/01/2024 19:18

My cat came home with a size 38D bra once

Ialwaystry · 14/01/2024 19:17

Wish mine would do this.
I just get half eaten pigeons , rats and other dead creatures in...
My youngest likes to just bring in leaves.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 14/01/2024 19:17

WhycantIkeepthisbloodyplantalive · 14/01/2024 19:01

My cat used to take socks and knickers round to the neighbours house and leave them in either his garden or kitchen (if window open).She started doing it when her kittens were too big to carry anymore.

The funny thing was, the male neighbour once knocked on the door and asked us to confirm to his live-out girlfriend that it was in fact the cat stealing my knickers and taking them to his house and not another women. The whole thing was mortifying really. One time it was a pair of rather nice black knickers m, I used to find a pile of underwear on my doorstep every couple of weeks!

My first cat was an absolute nymphomaniac. I once saw her on my neighbour's lawn, 'at it' with a tomcat, with a straight-line queue of toms sitting there patiently waiting their turn! 😂Never seen anything like it before or since.

She had a thing for my laciest underwear & would steal it off the airer. Nothing else appealed to her. I suppose that habit fitted in with the rest of her personality.

TheDogIsInCharge · 14/01/2024 19:16

rainbowbee · 14/01/2024 16:09

A friend's cat stole a kitten. They never found out who the kitten belonged to so cat got to keep her 'baby' 🤣

Oh my goodness. That one helluva prize.

StubbleTurnips · 14/01/2024 19:14

We had 8 rashers of raw bacon once.

Cuddlybug · 14/01/2024 19:13

Readingthedictionary · 14/01/2024 16:23

Reminds me of that book my little one likes reading, Slinki Malinki, the thief cat.

Such a funny thread. Cats are such devious little bastards 😂

I'm amazed that, compared to dogs, these creatures are so quiet. So still. So dignified. Yet they create chaos. Such skills

Hab788 · 14/01/2024 19:11

My cat used to steal muller fruit corners, I'm guessing from a neighbour's bin. He would carry them back home with his nose in the small triangle and his jaw in the big triangle. He looked like a robot cat...terrifying as he entered his cat flap.

Cuddlybug · 14/01/2024 19:11

Go cat! It's all par for the course

MonsteraMama · 14/01/2024 19:10

When my dog was a wee thing, she disappeared off into the woods on a walk. Returned with a very nice looking scone, complete with jam and clotted cream, looking pleased as punch. Little menace had obviously interrupted someone's lovely afternoon tea picnic. Still feel a little guilty about it to this day!

LegoLady95 · 14/01/2024 19:09

My cat brought home a floral gardening glove one day and left it outside the back door. Layer that day she brought the matching one. A few days later she brought another pair of gloves, one at a time. I never found out which shed or garden she stole them from.

SarahAndQuack · 14/01/2024 19:08

Fiddlerdragon · 14/01/2024 19:03

That’s why I don’t like cat owners. People on here describing how their cats have killed their neighbours children’s hamsters, pet/exotic birds, ripped the heads off a whole litter of guinea pigs, all like they’re hilariously funny anecdotes. It’s NOT kinder to have someone wonder what on earth has ever happened to a beloved pet, and perhaps spend months looking out for it, than have the balls to confess your pet entered their property and killed it. Some of the food ones are funny, but a lot won’t be if you’re in that situation. Actually shook my head at the pp who said their cat went out 4 times in the space of 30 minutes on Xmas day, coming back each time with an assortment of steaming hot food for a Xmas dinner, including the turkey. Why the fuck wouldn’t you think ‘that’s someone’s Xmas dinner my pets just ruined, perhaps I’d better keep it in for a little bit’.

Yep, that's what I meant.

I had cats until recently. We specifically got cats because we wanted them to be mousers (we're rural; I do believe it's the best option as poison is more cruel - and not very reliable - and the smell of a cat deters rodents). I'm not sentimental about it. And I would find the food ones quite funny if it was my food - I'd be mortified (though amused) if it was someone else's, and of course I'd keep them in if I knew they were doing it.

But it's not at all funny to boast about not telling someone their pet has died.

MCOut · 14/01/2024 19:08

I’m dying at some of these 😂 mine is indoor and is an angel in comparison. She just brings me her toys. The only human food she’s ever tried to steal is rum cake.

bobomomo · 14/01/2024 19:06

Ddog had form for escaping when he was younger (6ft fence was no issue) whilst he wasn't technically stealing we found out he was begging for (and getting) bacon/sausage baps from our neighbour's son. Unfortunately injury, age and resulting eye wateringly expensive surgery means his escaping days are long over. Dcat was too lazy to leave the garden