I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

[Duckingella]

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

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.

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.

Bloody hell! 😧

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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 🤣

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

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.🤗😂

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

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!

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!!!

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

@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.

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

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'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!

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.

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!