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

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.

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.

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

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

Your poor neighbour

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!!

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.

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

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

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

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

One of mine is an absolute sod

She will eat anything we leave out briefly, through the packaging. Meat off a boxed pizza, cake through the box and cellophane, crisp packets I think she thinks they might be cat food, so each is pierced and checked.

But her latest trick is stealing cat food pouches from neighbours houses, dragging them home and eating them in our garden, I’ve cleared up 10 empty chewed foil pouches since Christmas.

Then we get the sad face local FB posts, anyone know this cat, she’s starving, crying in our garden? The sod. She’s 6kg and is well fed.

@Fiddlerdragon so sorry for what happened xx

My cat once brought an actual WIG through the cat flap once. It was filthy and in a right state so I couldn't tell what quality it was. To this day I very much hope it was just a kids dressing up wig 😬.

One of ours brought a corn on the cob, still in its husk. We're vegetarian, so that was thoughtful!

Tennyson will eat just about anything. I took a liquorice allsort off him last week. The only human foods he's repulsed by are cauliflower and banana so far.

People laugh at this stuff when cats do it but if someone said their dog bit a cat then people go mad and say the dog needs to be put down.

One of my early dates with now DH we went to a country pub for lunch after walking my Jack Russell. Mid way through our meal I had finished my glass of wine and DH went to get me another. I'd been holding the dog on a short lead under the table when he shot up and grabbed the burger off DH's plate, got it to the floor and swallowed it whole. DH came back to half a toasted bun. The table next to us saw it all and were waiting for his reaction. I'm sure they still tell the tale now. It was then I knew he was a keeper and the Jack Russell was a bit of a bugger for his whole life.

One of our cats used to bring us rubbish, empty crisp packets mainly but he mixed it up with tin foil which he also liked. I suspect it was from next door's bin.

One memorable day we were watching tv and a toad hopped out from under the tv stand. I suspect I know how it got there, I certainly didn't bring it in.

I think you were the crazy neighbour.

Oh great, the cat haters have found the part of mumsnet devoted to cat lovers.

I don't like cats but a cat stole my roast pork once and I thought it was funny.

But it's very annoying seeing people laughing at how their cats tormented neighbours, or how they killed peoples pets. Some cat owners have horrible attitudes.

BTW, this thread showed up on 'trending', I don't look at what message board threads were posted on.

My cat has come home with a chicken wing and a sausage on separate occasions.. hopefully not stolen from someone's house or BBQ 🙈

That is very sweet, cats are bonkers and so entertaining

My cat, who is a weirdo, once brought home an unopened bag of Skips. I have no idea where he got it, I just hope he didn’t mug a small child!