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!

these are great.no clothes thiefs ,but leonard liked to put his face in the cup of my bras when freshly removed..
big guy i have now likes to claim worn nightshirts and sleep on them.
little female is a hockey player tho.anything you small enough you can enclose in your hand flys off the table.when she was young and very ill she did it with lollypops and hard candies.i was so happy to see her do anything i let it go.

Update: I have come home from work to find my underwear strewn across the front garden.
The poor neighbours have had to look at my track stretchy specials all day.
The shame

Edit: Tesco not track lol

He's added to his stash with a cushion from Oliver Tulliver's den and Jennifer Turkington's pottery smock.

ndn's cat steals clothes pegs! Both me and ndn keep having to replace them, he must have hundreds of them in a secret stash somewhere

I think we should see a photo of the cat. This one just hangs around our local Waitrose.

Definitely Slinki Malinki. The vet one is really good if you want something to read to your fur kids.

Ds2 is very lazy to get dressed in the morning and I'll often hear him shout the cats hear 2 little bells tinkle then they both appear with a sock each with ds2 running after them to retrieve his socks.

They also like to topple the washing basket down the stairs which is always nice to open the front too

Mr B likes my leotards. Clean ones & new ones. His brother, Mr N, will also inspect any dancewear purchases; & both of them will try to use my legwarmers & warm-ups as bedding if they get a chance. Possibly this is my own fault for naming them after Ballet Geniuses

Is a slight problem when their snoofling about the clothes airer leads to them charging about the house wearing my leotards like little superhero capes. First time it happened there was - unsurprisingly - Frantic Feline Flapping. Now if it happens & they can't free themselves they just come & find me (usually yowling plaintively as they do so) to get me to extract them; or if I'm out they settle down on my bed for a nap & when I get home will meyowl at me reproachfully for cruelly abandoning them so...

Luckily they're indoor cats, because as well as the risks to them of charging around wearing leotard!capes I don't think my leos would survive it - lots of them are custom-made (might as well have a novel vice...) & impossible to replace even once I saved up enough.

Many sympathies about your cat electing to use your lawn for a concept art piece in medium of your underwear. If you could get footage of him working maybe you could at least make some money out of this. I mean, people buy paintings done by elephants...

They are paying the foxes for silence.
They all know a lot about each other y'all. I'm telling us. They're all in it together.

This is the culprit, last night he was guilty of swiping a bra as well, nothing artful has appeared as yet, I live in hope (dread)

You do realise your cat is quite clearly Macavity, yes? The ginger bit in the poem = clearly at some point A Cunning Disguise was worn. I mean, just look at that face... adorable, but all master-criminalish at the same time...

My cat managed to get her walking jacket off the other day. (She made it crystal clear that she wasn't going for a walk) I have no idea how she got it off or where she's put it! I'm gobsmacked as she's not the brightest!

Next door's cat - a Tonkinese so extra extra everything - had a sock thing. She would collect socks off our drier - and from others'. Her embarrassed owner used to go door to door every so often with a basket of socks so we could reclaim them.
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He will continue until he brings me the size and style I asked for.

Well... my old cat used to pinch our NDN’s (fairly pricey) pond plants and drop them on our bed. I had to keep going round with carrier bags of stuff that needed to be rehomed

This is a wonderful thread. I laughed and laughed at the cats stealing underwear. I'd heard of dogs taking socks but not cats and knickers.

The best we can offer is a cat who "hunted" cuddly toys; having caught one she would then bring it to her chosen human's bedside. Beats our current cats' offerings which are more of the mouse variety.

at this thread.

pinkunicorn love your Slinky Malinki cat. He looks a lot like ours (but they don't steal knickers, only food.)

Espresso Butler: Sparrow hawk!

We have a toy stealing cat too. One particular small cuddly toy she carries round the house making a special plaintive miaow sound - she’s normally silent - then gets upset when she loses it under furniture. She definitely acts like it’s her baby.

All my cat brings (and, thankfully, leaves just outside the door) is little piles of guts from small mammals (mostly voles or mice). We get little piles of intestines, large or small (I know my anatomy), the occasional spleen or gall bladder. There used to be the odd heart but haven't seen one of those for a while. I should much prefer a neighbour's socks!

Haha this is the funniest thread I have ever read on here! I have 3 cats and not one of them has done this!!!! Oh I love it xx

I a d o r e this thread! It is FAB! This is nil to do with socks etc but to do with smells/odours - when I bleached the loo, my cat would sit on the (closed) seat going all dreamy and druggy, then roll over and round and round and paw at me - ahhhh I miss him lots!

I had a large black rescue cat that loved to unpack the washing basket. He'd then distribute clothes down the stairs /hall so it looked as though you'd done a striptease starting at the front door. The current incumbents like clean clothes to play with which is even worse!