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

Ours once appeared in the garden with a gigantic steak. He went so mental over it I had to spray him with the house to get it off him.

Half an hour later he was back with another one. heard from shouting from a few houses down….

Just after Christmas one year, someone dumped a half eaten Turkey in a country park presumably for the benefit of the wildlife.

My Whippet sprang into life and dragged it out of the undergrowth to a grassy area and would not let man or other dogs anywhere near it.

The Turkey was huge and had lots of meat left on the carcass.

He proceeded to lay down with it and eat it like a lion at a safari park!

Hahahah!! 😂

It can't have been that shy, otherwise it would have hidden at the bottom of the pond.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Maybe your cat crept in.
And crept out again.

My dog once ate my homework...

I have a LOT of cats... 9 full time and 5-8 visitors. They only bring me mice and birds really...
Although Inky, one of my yard cats, had kittens. We were making sure there was enough food out at all times. We got to the yard one afternoon and they still had a bit of food, but Inky was nowhere to be seen - she turned up after 5 minutes doing the "I have food" miaow, and had brought them - a leaf! We were not providing enough salad, obviously!

Is your cat called Freddie Starr?

Also had a thieving Siamese , we learnt never to let them into the kitchen unaccompanied. One Sunday I found the elder cat sitting beside a cooked leg of pork, looking very smug. DH was quite cross, and accused her of theft, so I sprang to her defence and said that someone had probably thrown it out as leftovers, until he pointed out that it was still carefully wrapped in cling film.

I suppose she had brought it back for me to take the wrapping off for her.

My old Maine Coone has evolved passed “catching” dinners, he has them brought. We noticed he would perk up when we had fish and chips but not pizza delivered, the fish and chip man was bringing him his own little fish and having a cuddle with him at the end of the drive. The fat git would still raise his head up like a periscope at the table trying to beg a bit of mine or DS’s fish though. I’m sure he runs a gang of pick pocket kittens from the back of the shed like a feline Fagin.

My granny used to talk about her cat appearing one day in the 40s, when meat was rationed, trailing a huge string of sausages. She heard the aggrieved neighbour giving out about it in the local shop a few days later, but she hadn't the courage to 'fess up.

Depending on how pissed off your neighbour is, they'll probably be checking their doorbell footage...

I hope she washed them off and used them;meat was in short supply after all.

I know of 2 cats living in the same house who went out and came back dragging a still very warm beef joint through the cat flap.

hahahahaha! I am waiting for a MN post saying:

"something really weird just happened and I literally cant explain it. I had just roasted a chicken, put it down on the table left the kitchen for 30 seconds and its just.....gone. Ive searched the entire house and cant find it anywhere"

Cue loads of "your husband ate it and is lying to you- LTB" responses

My in-laws' cat came home once with a freshly cooked pork chop. And our cat came leaping over our 6ft fence into our garden with a wild baby rabbit. My DH managed to get it out of his mouth and DCat was most upset.

When I was a child we had a cat who whipped a hot pork chop off the neighbours plate as she was serving their dinner onto their plates and had turned her back for just seconds. She was very indignant and my DM was mortified.

My friend's cat once came home with a small joint of cooked beef. My friend at the time was very hard up for money and did consider eating it for a few minutes ☺️

My cat (now blind and 18, bless him) used to steal meat off a neighbours BBQ and then take it to our flat roof which overlooked the neighbours garden and eat it 😂

Ours came down the path with a huge Yorkshire pudding once. Really wanted to know where it came from as would love to know their technique, it was huge and risen to perfection 😂

One of mine made a huge kerfuffle coming through the cat flap because he was dragging a very dead rat and the trap that the rat was firmly jammed in. God knows where the cat had found it. The rat trap was the sort that should not have been anywhere in the open as it could have killed any animal going near it. I often wonder what the person who set it thought when it disappeared (monster rats dragging it off).

We've had a cooked chicken drumstick before and also a rolled up pair of socks. 🤔

I know of someone whose cat arrived home carrying a very dead but very exotic, tropical fish.

Neighbour's cat stole my bloody shoes. I got him on camera!!

We had a cat who was a bit of a wimp, a bird flew into the window and knocked itself out/died. The cat couldn’t believe her luck and wandered around proudly carrying her bird.

My cat once brought in a very alive squirrel that was as big as her. Somehow I managed to get them both out of the house and shut the cat in the shed while the squirrel ran off

My inlaws cat got to the turkey one Christmas while it was resting... cats are funny things.