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 two boys did the same and hauled it over at least 4 six ft fences as the other neighbours were on holiday 😂.

Haha that reminded me of a cat we had when I still lived at home with my parents. She was a great ratter and every day she’d catch at least one. Most days we’d find a rat’s backside outside the back door - she would eat the top half it seemed. That house’s back garden must be full of rat skeleton bottoms!

Ha ha! They're disgusting creatures aren't they?! Thankfully my cat seems to think rats aren't edible so she kills them but leaves them whole (so far at least). Mice are mostly edible, except their stomachs. The amount of mouse stomachs we find on the floor downstairs is vile.

I'm loving this cold weather. Everything is hiding at the moment, so other than the 4am blackbird the other week, it's been a peaceful couple of weeks!

I'll pay for it in the summer I'm sure.

the sound of a cat vomiting

I have often thought that if some alarm clock manufacturer would make this the "wake up" sound, nobody would EVER sleep in again @ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves

So very true. I'm not a morning person at all, but the sound of the cat yowling at the bottom of the bed at 6am on Boxing Day when she announced her arrival with a live mouse has never woken me up or got me out of bed quicker!

Many years back, talking maybe 35 my sister had a gorgeous black cat named Shady Lady. She got home from work to find a trail of bright yellow and blue feathers from the catflap. Followed them to her bedroom, Shady had left the decapitated remains of some poor neighbours pet budgie on her pillow.

We once had a cat whose preliminary chunder noise was almost identical to the bassline in Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic. I can't hear that track without a smile of nostalgia.

Mine used to yodel before throwing up.

🤣

@AppleDumplingWithCustard yodelling here too!

80% of the house has hard flooring due to my (cat) allergies she always puked on soft furnishings 🙄💔 miss my girl x

Argh yes! As ours was doing the "hng hng hng" noise they'd be walking from the hard-floored kitchen or bathroom into the carpeted hallway. Whereupon they would stop and chunder. Sometimes with their back paws still on the hard flooring. Little git.

Mine sounded like a low budget Japanese movie (very specific because I used to watch them as a child) he even did the dramatic eye thing

Many years ago on a hot summer Sunday, my cat came home with a huge slab of roast pork. There was no way she was going to give it up. i can just imagine the look of sheer disbelief as the cook found it missing from their kitchen. I also wonder what they had to eat for the rest of the week as it was massive

My now indoor cat used to be an outdoor cat. She refused to come indoors. Now she refuses to go outside. Bloody cat

Anyway, when she was an outdoor cat, she was a very good mouser. She didn’t kill them the ordinary way….noooooo.

She would take them to where there was a bucket of water and then drowned them. Sadist

Let's be honest about the narrative,as for me it should be casual issue with the cat,

😯

😳 how can they be so terrifying but so adorable at the same time?

One of mine (aka Simple Cat) is a shit hunter, her brother (aka Bastard Cat) can drop an almost dead mouse under her nose and she'll let it go free. She'll do her best "come and look at what I caught" yowl and it'll be a leaf or some food the toddler dropped and will expect you to praise her hunting. And yet somehow she's managed to catch a live bat twice.
The first time we assumed BC had caught and dropped it or she'd found a dying one but the second time I witnessed her speed and skill. Clearly her two brain cells managed to meet and create a plan to leap and catch. Or maybe it's an evolutionary throwback. Unfortunately for her she's now banned from going outside at night during bat season.

I too have a Clever Cat and a Simple Cat and assumed Clever Cat was responsible for all creatures brought in to the house. SC too is an expert leaf catcher and it also always super keen to show you her sister's catches.

We've had a couple of small, fast birds, that have been caught and brought in and on reviewing the cameras it has been proved to be SC catching them.

She may not be interested in mice or actual proper hunting, but if something flies anywhere near her head, she WILL catch it!

I fear bat season every year. If one ever gives her the chance, she will definitely catch it!

Her absolute favourite is frogs though. Thankfully she doesn't pick them up, or kill them (they obviously taste foul, thank god), but she does play with them and hold them down with her paws.

I never knew frogs could scream until last summer...

My tom cat (they don't seem to be great hunters tbh) is useless at catching birds, thank God, but the one time he did, it had to be a great fat feral pigeon. Too large for him to finish off, feathers everywhere, I had to take the poor thing to the vet to get pts. He's started making noises at the seagulls that land on our shed roof, so probably will be one of those next.

@HairyMcHairyFace - this is our cat, somewhat lovingly nicknamed CatBastard. Thankfully he either doesn’t catch small furry critters (or other people’s lunches) or he doesn’t bring them home - but he used to be notorious up our street for picking on other cats.

What with that, and the way he bites us if we don’t stroke him when he wants to be stroked, or when we stroke him and he doesn’t want it, or we simply do it wrong, his nickname is well deserved.

That sounds a lot like BC. He's notorious in the neighbourhood for being a hooligan and will happily fight anything that looks at him funny whether that's another cat, a plastic bag, my feet, his own shadow or that one time he attacked the radio because they were playing birdsong.
I love him but he's earned his nickname for a reason and the only person he isn't a little shit to is my toddler but I suspect he's sensed a kindred spirit.
Does Cat Bastard Six Dinner Sid his way round your neighbours too?

No actually he probably deemed you "head of food" at your home and brought a contribution to your supply! Its really a source of honor to them to help provide for their "family".

We were on holiday in Corfu last summer lounging about the pool having a pre dinner drink, when we heard a lot of shouting from up the hill. Suddenly one of the mangy cats that hung around our villa (the children had christened her Manky Minos) appeared at the gates to our driveway and trotted proudly past us all on the terrace with her mouth stuffed to the gunnels with enormous barbecued sausages. She proceeded to share these with her kittens, and possibly her husband or FWB (feline with benefits). We watched as they wolfed down their stolen meal, and then denied all knowledge when we saw our Greek neighbours out for a walk the following morning 😀

We had a childproof lock on our fridge to keep our beagle out. They're renowned thieves