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

ive never had this from my cats… but when I was younger, next doors cat would sneak in the house to go into my room where I had a hamster.

He managed to kill my hamster through the bars of the cage. Just sliced it along the side.

I was sad but I also knew it was a cat and that’s what cats do

Same here - I love giblet gravy.

They sued to be standard when you ought poultry - even a frozen bird, but now you never get them. You can buy frozen packs of chicken livers, but I wonder what they do with all of those little gizzards and hearts and kidneys?

This happened to me with a duck which disappeared, but in fairness our two bull terriers had whipped it off the bench and scoffed it - red hot, just from the oven. there was duck geese all over the kitchen and their bed (and their faces).

As I say, it was red hot - I don't know how they ate it. They had the bones and all. I was worried sick about them for about a fortnight in case some sharp little shard punctured their stomachs or bowel, but they were ok.

Oh thank Christ - it's not mine!

One of my cats, when younger, used to steal clothing - gloves, hats, scarves, socks, underwear etc and bring it home. I was forever knocking on doors ("These your "Y" fronts. vicar?". )

Some never found its way back to its old home and I still have a very nice scarf, and a lovely warm hat from Galloway Golf Club

Edited to put an "a" in.

If you get them from the butcher they still have them inside I believe....

My boy cat has brought back a few cooked and raw chicken breasts and we get a few sausages and burgers in the summer that I assume he’s nicked from BBQs

Weirdest was a Dulux tester tube of a very dark green emulsion. It had burst while he was carrying it back so he was covered in it.

Dog has swiped a sandwich from a child in a pushchair. It was the most embarrassing thing she’s ever done. She was on a short lead but the child was holding it out to the side so she just swiped it without breaking stride. I was very apologetic and bought them a replacement sandwich. Luckily the parents saw the funny side. She’s also dragged a dead seagull home (it was already dead and rotting) from the beach. She clamped her jaw round it and wasn’t giving it up for anything. I gave up and drove her home with it. Stunk my car out for weeks.

I had a tiny tuxie female who brought home an enormous, live snake. Thing is, she had to go out into the wilds to find it, bring it home, jump over a wall with it in her teeth, crawl under the gate (ditto) & then deposit in the middle of the back lawn. She was exhausted, poor thing. But proud.

I went out to look at it, but I hadn't got my snake recognition badge so I rang the vet surgery & a receptionist suggested I bring it down for them to identify. As it might have been an adder, I politely declined. When I went back out for another look, it had gone. I phoned again & spoke to a vet this time, as the snake had had a spot of blood near its mouth & I was concerned that it might've bitten the cat. When I said it was no longer there, the vet said, "Oh, it's legged it."😂From my description, he identified it as a grass snake.

The cat was fine & for a while I was a bit watchful when I was in the garden, but the snake had indeed legged it.

Many moons ago,when I was a baby my parents owned a heinz 57 dog-she was bit of what seemed to be every breed going (suzie)

My grandad owned a jack Russell (tinker)

Anyway,my father would make 3 sandwiches with 3 different fillings,slice them in half (so making 6 smaller sandwiches),he would then go for a wee and come back to 5 sandwiches

This went on for weeks-him convinced my mother or grandad where playing tricks on him

Until he'd had enough-the joke had gone too far,so he made them up as normal and walked off but hid

He saw suzie walk up,lift her paws up,snatch a sandwich and share it with tinker before he came back

Talk about partners in crime!

Susie was a sod for going out to pee,would catch a frog and dump it in the mop bucket

Manys the time someone would go to fill it up and have a sodding frog looking back at them

My dp had a lab called Ben as a child

One day my fil had gone outside to do some gardening and fell over-he couldn't get back up

Now Ben could have somehow alerted someone in the house that something was wrong-a bark at my mil would have done

Instead he cocked his leg on poor fil and ran off

He was found eventually and the poor dog was hit by a car and died a few months later-his story lives on

Oh, poor Ben! He sounds like a character. Very kind of Suzie to share - not sure any of my cats would have.

Friends cat once came home with a partially defrosted chicken.

As our three Siamese are indoor cats, they make do with stealing from us. The biggest theft was an entire 1kg ham left out to rest. Being carried by a 3kg cat.

When I was a teenager, our cats once brought in a live mole, seemingly completely unharmed - I released the little creature outside. After sneakily petting it a little bit - so soft!

The absolute worst though was when one of the cats left a decapitated mouse head in my mum’s handbag.

One previous cat brought me a slice of toast - next door neighbour told me he was a frequent visitor and wasn't best pleased. It was hard keeping him in but I had to through summer as they had a baby and I was scared he'd get into a room and snuggle up to baby. Another previous cat who wandered all over the village, brought home daily offerings of mice dead and alive. Best one was a beautiful blue tit, still alive - took me over an hour to catch the bird and set it free....and embarrassing calls to school and work explaining why we'd be late.
Current pair of Maine coon 7mth olds are staying indoors until they're a year old in the hope that they don't wander very far. They do still bring me gifts - daily ornaments from the Christmas tree . They're gutted now it's gone but I get unopened packets of food (all niw stored in a clip lock container), my vape, letters off the sideboard. But it's the things they lose that's more frustrating - mine and my partners keys go missing often (usually found under the sofas) as well as washing off the airer - cat in the bathroom sink with a pair of knickers in her mouth is an amusing sight!

@Fiddlerdragon sorry your dad was indeed cruel that's awful

We literally had this with the remains of a crown of lamb. About 20 quid’s worth of meat.

in fairness, we have a greedy and sneaky greyhound, so we know EXACTLY where it went, once we’d got over the initial surprise.

Cats are so weird in scavenging the kind of food outdoors which they'd never eat inside. Chucked some old cake and bits of croissant on the grass for the birds today and looked out to see my greedy bastard tom eating it.

My best friend had a rich neighbour knock on the door with a whole salmon. The neighbour said ‘we found a cat on the sideboard eating it and wondered if you could use it for your cats as we can’t eat it now. My best friend said ‘yes thank you very much we will take it’ Then they had it for lunch.

We have indoor cats (I know,I’ll get heat for this). The smallest is a prolific sock thief. She’s also very good at dipping her paw into drawers and stealing things. I’ve found pants and bras all over the stairs. This only happens when we have people over…. She’s dragged a pair of jeans downstairs…. She’s a little menace and I adore her.

I had a very nervous cat and one day she came bounding over towards me with something red in her mouth - blimey, she’s caught something, I thought. She dropped it in my lap - it was a flower!

Brilliant . I have a long held belief that when dogs or cats misbehave it’s always a humans fault for enabling it . 🤷‍♀️x

Our previous cat would eat dry bread that the NDN put out for the birds. No way would he eat that at home e.

Mine brought back a full size ornamental peacock feather once, no idea where it came from to this day 😂

That clever cat. What a clever hunter.

Personally i would rather believe my hamster escaped and was living the high life than having been eaten. Settle petal.

My aunt tells a story of going to stay with future PIL with her dog. MIL was very Margo from The Good Life but without the sense of humour (for those that actually remember The Good Life). Dog proceeded to grab the joint of beef for the Sunday roast, and although very little damage done by the dog who was caught very quickly, future MIL - very tight lipped - threw the whole thing in the dustbin.

My aunt was appalled having come from a country family where everything was used/ no waste, and she and future DH were pretty poor at the time, so she decided to rescue the beef with the intention of cutting off any damaged bits and cooking the rest. Unfortunately, she’s about 5’ 1” and MIL caught her with her head in the dustbin trying to retrieve said beef! Not sure either of them ever got over it…

Cats don’t steal. They take what is theirs. They rule the world…we just run it for them.