To think my cat is selling my knickers!!

[pinkunicorn20]

Heading up to bed and as you do let the dogs out for a wee and see if I can spot the cat to see if he's in or out for the night.
Walk into the kitchen and see the cat skulking around the washing basket, he sometimes sleeps behind the dryer but with the warm weather it's not been getting used so he hasn't been bothering lately.
As I open the neck door he jumps on top of the tumbler drier grabs a pair of my knickers from the top of the pile and legs it out the back door.

Where the hell is he taking my underwear!!!!!!

Aibu to assume he is part of some secret feline selling human underwear gang and if so surely I'm entitled to a % of the profits!

Is your cat called Slinki Malinki, by any chance?!

In any case, YANBU. Cats are all up to something.

I had to google that, I think I might have found a new nickname for him

Macavity, Macavity, there's no-one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity

Do you think he's got a side business going? Sowing discord by sneaking into gardens, dropping your lingerie and then leaving the equivalent of a compromising note?
"Leave pouches of my favourite food under the clematis or I'l start dropping the lingerie on the back door step. See how far your explanations get you. Signed - The Paw."

My cat is a weirdo he does not like my knickers but my god he runs around the house with my husbands dirty boxer shorts much to the amusement of my youngest child. (its only the dirty ones he does not bother with clean ones).

Oh and my female cat a few years ago give birth in the dirty underwear basket... (and as both me an DH had been lazy with washing had to basically throw out most of our underwear :( after that)

Though the kittens were amazing compesention though (all neutared now the cat pregency was not planned she was due to be neutared but Vet said she was alreadu pregent so obviosuly didnt neuteral her that day).

I've had worse than that, I had a kitten who used to take my worn underwear out of the washing basket and run round the house with it.

If she was allowed outside, which she wasn't as she was a fostered rescue, who went to her forever home at about 3 months, she might have taken it with her then.

We've had dozens of cats including the fostered ones and all the kittens love playing in the washing basket but she was the only one who ever took anything out of it and away. All the others just roll round in it.

Collect underpants --?-- Profit

Your cat has been watching the box set of OITNB and has an eBay empire

Maybe she's making a nest.

Skinny malinki confused me as I vaguely remembered it from childhood except googling revealed a book published long after my childhood.

However I see that skinny malinki does go back much further than the book. A scottish song from British pathè times at least.

One of my cats steals socks. Every chance she gets. Dirty or clean, it doesn't matter. Every morning we wake up to a trail of kidnapped socks leading us through the house.

My cat used to bring in socks from neighbour's gardens. We had a collection of 6 or 7 socks, some matching! My previous cat used to carry (my) mittens around most of the time.

Reassured to learn it's not just my cat with weird proclivities,
I have recently binged OITNB @Vole3 I have a suspicion you are correct!

Think they just like the smell of their human. One of mine used to sit on my lap and then bury his nose in my armpit.

I found a lot of my underwear was going missing, moved a storage box under the bed to get something and found a 'nest' made of bras and knickers. It was the cat.

One of my cats is the phantom sock stealer
Even unpairs them from clean laundry pile and just hides one grrrrrrr

One of ours carries socks and gloves around, but only if they are rolled in a pair. She pops them down carefully. I think she thinks that they are kittens.

Awww. This made me smile. My first cats party trick whenever I had visitors: lying on his back , front paws holding 1cup of bra, while back paws 'killed' /pummeled rest! That and humping my feet (he was neutered).

Not just socks and pants. A friend came in for a few minutes chat and put her old fashioned shopping basket (which had a fitted fabric cover) on the floor nearby. A few minutes later my cat wandered over to the basket, pawed up a corner of the cover, blindly fished around inside and took out a new ball of wool, which she then carried off to a corner and just sat with for a while before going back for more. Maybe pp was right about the kittens?

She used to invent games for herself too.

She'd drop a ping pong ball into a shoe and once it rolled down to the toe, scrabble madly to fish it out again, and then give several repeat performances.

Another game was to carry a small piece of scrunched paper into the room and drop it on the carpet, sit on it firmly, spending a few seconds in deep thought, then suddenly kick it out from behind her with her back legs, followed by a swift turn to pounce again before it got away! That game would be repeated several times as well.

Before she got bored.

Oooo - I know the answer to this!

My cat used to come home with (thankfully, freshly washed) underwear - socks, knickers, and on one memorable occasion a very expensive-looking velvet bra. I have no idea where he got them from, but I literally had carrier bags of the things he'd brought me.

So - I think you cat is actually a knicker-dealer, and cats like mine get it off him to bring home to me

If it helps, if you want it back, when I turn up at your door asking if any of it is yours, I suggest you actually claim it rather than doing what every one of my neighbours used to do, and look shocked and deny ever having seen it before...

HTH!

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It should be 60/40 split of all underwear profits.

Our old cat did the reverse, kept bringing in socks from the old boy next door and once a petticoat slip found its way into our Gennel, and I suspect she was responsible for that too.

the mention of Slinky Malinki takes me back! DDs loved all the Hairy McLary stories