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

My Dalmatian loved ice cream. Particularly the soft scoop variety. I lost count of the number of small children I had to buy another ice cream because she snaffled it off the top of their cone as she walked past. She was the perfect height and children did have a habit of waving it around near her.

That's adorable

My cat once stole, over the space of a few days, a string of raw sausages, a piping hot baked potato and a block of cheese bigger than his head. I have no idea where from and I was too ashamed to ask!

cat in the bathroom sink with a pair of knickers in her mouth is an amusing sight!

At least it’s clean. One of my cats steals my dirty knickers out of the laundry basket. On numerous occasions I’ve found him rolling around on them with his head in the crotch. Absolutely gross.

Mine brought home a pig's trotter. Thankfully detached from the pig.

Mine used to do that for cat treats - whatever was in them was like crack to him. I once caught him standing on his hind leg on the work surface searching through the open cupboard.

My first cat (approx 20yrs ago but still mortifying!) once bought home an entire semi frozen fish that someone had obviously put out on the side to defrost. She was so cross that it was too big to get through the cat flap and I didn’t know what to “do” with it so I panicked and called a friend to come and deal with it (I was young, in my first house and I’d never seen a large fish still with its head on). It was ridiculous and someone must’ve been so confused and cross to lose such an expensive dinner.

My old cat brought home lots of gifts for me too. Mice, birds, big moths-all dead or alive.
Sausages, chicken legs or breasts and once dropped a scotch egg at my feet!

My cat came home with a sausage in the summer that she'd obviously pinched from a neighbours bbq 🙈 my partner thought she had a severed finger in her mouth at first the weirdo! 😅

I wish mine would bring home something interesting instead of repeatedly bringing in live mice from the garden.
He hasn't 'got' that he's supposed to catch them in the house, if at all

😂😂 I feel like we may see another post on mumsnet…..’Am I going mad…..I’ve literally lost my roast chicken!’

My parents dog once stole a full-sized baguette from a nice family having a picnic. I wasn’t there, but am told the sight of him running around the park with it was pretty funny…although the poor family weren’t at all amused!

This was my old cat a few years ago now. Would not relinquish it either - growled at me and then ate the lot. Really hope it wasn't attached to a person when he found it. Looked like a pizza how tie.

We also have a little female cat and when she was a lot younger she dragged a huge rabbit backwards through the kitchen window. She was tiny so no idea how she managed it. She was also a champion mole catcher.

One of my Siamese cats struggled home one Sunday with an uncut Gammon joint. She regulary brought other joints that had been cut. She also repeatedly brought pizza that appeared to be fresh off a table and would pop in the open window of a neighbour’s house and steal their cat’s food out of its bowl. She is now an old lady and has retired from her criminal career.

Before her, 30-years-ago now (wow, time flies), I had a half-Siamese/half-alley cat, who favoured wildlife. He was a big boy, so that meant dragging crows home! Worse, he once managed to open next door’s rabbit hutch and brought home the (very little) remains of their pet rabbit, having eaten most of it 😳😔

I know I shouldn’t laugh about the hamster but I am 🤣

my cat once came home with a koi carp
Another time she came home with a full size green parrot (mortified)

Also random chicken legs (bbq days, someone lost their dinner)...

This post is hilarious.
My DP’s old staffie ate through a set of jump leads, half a brick and a whole hedgehog 😢
My friends cat Milly used to jump into my bedroom throughout the dark hours leaving me various remnants of what I can only describe as a witch’s wish list for a spell - bits of mice, and small animals. I picked up what I thought was half a wine gum off the carpet and it was some poor creatures heart. It also used to entertain itself by dropping live mice into my room in the early hours and would sit back watching the ensuing chaos as myself and my Spaniel tried to catch them - it was a creepy cat much like the one out of Pet Sematary.

We got up one morning to three dead squirrels one outside our bedroom one at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom suffice it to say we have no cat flap now and the cats are let in and out when needed /wanting and they are in at night in the kitchen with a litter tray.

The same cats also turned on our gas hobs through the night on three separate occasions we learnt to remove the knows at night until we got an induction hob. They are Mainecoons so big paws and jaws

I’m waiting for the post where someone is complaining about the theft of their Sunday roast 😂

I need to have words with my current cat! He doesn't bring anything interesting home, unless you count a dragonfly.

We've had a cat in the past who wanted to be a vegetarian, as he brought flowers, weeds, carrots, a lettice and various twigs back. Another cat brought us a grass snake and an adder. Twice. The adder was dead, but the grass snake wasn't. Also squirrels, and pigeons (dead and alive).

A roasted chicken would be very nice!

No idea - but now they have also removed the string! Had to Google how to truss a chicken the other day...
I am also a MN bone boiling stock maker, so miss the pack of giblets.

My black and white cat knicked the bacon that was cooling in the pot he’s the cheeky Mr. Fiesty

Not quite a pet stealing food, but YEARS ago I was having Sunday lunch with a friend in a beer garden. She had her kids with her that were playing on the climbing frame (side note - 2 other friends of mine were in the same beer garden and sat on a table near to us). I popped inside the pub to get some drinks, while my friend was checking on her kids. Our food was left on the table. I returned to the table first and noticed my Yorkshire pudding was missing (best part of the meal if you ask me). My 2 friends who were sat on another table were laughing and told me how a seagull had flown down and swiped it. Me being me, took my friends Yorkshire pudding off her plate and put it on mine. When she came back to the table, she asked where her yorkie was. I told her ‘you won’t believe it, but a seagull flew down and took it’ (trying to keep a straight face) she was so annoyed. I said, it’s okay. You can have half of mine and gave her half. I’ve never told her the truth to this day!

@FindingNeverland28 you have an inner cat which came out and stole that Yorkshire.

@GildedAge Meow!!! Haha