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 in laws cat brought home a live chicken once! She was a tiny Siamese and about half its size. PIL rescued it and took it back to their neighbours. It seemed fine only a bit disgruntled, she'd just wrestled it into submission and kind of dragged it home.

Are you married to @MrsMitford3 ?!

Jose is going to be a hard act to follow. 😆

Hahahhaha this is very funny though!

My cat once crashed through the cat flap with a steaming hot rasher of cooked bacon in her mouth.

My work colleague lives in Camden Town and once her cat dragged a seagull through the cat flap. To this day she has no idea where the cat found a seagull in central London

Mine brought back an unopened packet of cat treats in a brand I've never bought. Just strolled nonchalantly through the cat flap and laid them at my feet to open.

10 years ago in my North London garden flat I woke up and found the bananas in the kitchen had been eaten - some stolen.

That was funnier than when I was about 12 and when my parents went to get my tray bake chocolate birthday cake they discovered the dogs had eaten it. (And we learned dogs shouldn't have chocolate)

OP I choose to imagine the roaster of chicken is secretly delighted they have an excuse to not have that chicken! Also wondering WTF. Do you have foxes screaming at night ? They’ll probably get the blame.

Our cat was initially an indoor cat until we moved to a safer area. She is definitely not a seasoned hunter but does "catch" hair bobbles for me and very pleased she is too! I'm not so pleased when they get batted under the fridge. She also likes attacking plastic bags.

There are loads of seagulls in central London. We do have a pretty large river 😂

When I was young, we had a cat who did this but he brought them back alive as he clearly had a mouth like a gun dog.

My parents carefully replaced them in next door's pond, convinced that was where he'd got them from until they expressed astonishment that their bare of fish pond was being filled with koi carp. The cat had nabbed them from a pond at the back of our house not the side 😂

@DecafOatMilkCappucino literally crying with laughter at Jose's antics.

When we lived in the city one of my cats was prolific food robber , I used to lock her ass soon as I smelled coal . In BBQ season she would bring chicken , burgers and her favourite was sausages 🤦🏻‍♀️. One day she showed up with a whole bag of cheese too

I don't think for a minute my greedy cat would bring home pilfered food, he'd hide nearby scoffing his ill gotten gains.

I know this is quite a funny thread but I'm worried for the family of 12 who may not eat for a fortnight now the chicken is missing 😂

My old cat once stole a whole chicken from the neighbours bbq. They'd gone inside briefly and he took his chance.
I was mortified. I closed the door and pretended it never happened.

I used to live a couple of doors down from a 7 day shop. They had a delivery each day of meats etc for their fridge, and it used to be left by the fridge waiting for someone to sort the food and put it in the right place.

One day I came home to an empty pack of sausages, thought maybe he'd found it in a bin. Then a few days later a pasty packet. Then he came in with a full pack of sausages - and I realised. Went round to the shop and apologised and paid for the sausages - but I have no idea how much he had stolen before anyone realised.....😂

Old cat trying to bring a turkey drumstick through the catflap was good
it took much banging till he turned it sideways

Maybe it was a sad, abandoned kitten.

My cat has presented me with half eaten steak, still warm, knickers complete with pegs, a cat bed stolen from his arch enemy Fat Cat, that he had to get through a loo window and drag up the Lane plus most of Fat Cat's toys. No fivers though.

I have the world's strangest cat. He will only eat Felix As Good As Good As It Looks Kitten Food in Jelly.

He won't look at freshly cooked roast chicken or tuna, or anything a normal cat would love as a wee treat.

He never begs for food either, he's just happy with his Felix, though he does love a Dreamie.

A previous cat brought me a huge gammon joint once, never found who that belonged to

Years ago, in the 70's when dogs took themselves for walks and everyone left their doors open, my dog came home with a full roast chicken in his mouth! When he wasn't out stealing Sunday roasts he was impregnating the neighbourhood bitches! So many pups born with his good looks 😜

Mine has a penchant for nail files, the emery board type. She can sniff one out from metres away. She steals them and then licks all the rough stuff off, the little weirdo.

Years ago we had a kitten called Spike. He managed to steal a big fat sausage off the BBQ which was nearly as big as him. Anyone who went near him while he was munching away was growled and hissed at. He was only 12 or so weeks old at the time and it was pretty funny seeing a small kitten getting so possessive over a sausage.

I left a pack of chicken thighs to defrost on the kitchen counter a few weeks ago still sealed like you'd buy from the supermarket, turned my bank to empty the bin and kitten sliced into the packaging and yomped off with a half frozen chicken thigh bigger than his head.

Old cat had serious form for this he had a pork fillet, nearly a kilo of prawns , a live frog from next door's pond, a whole egg carried intact in his mouth, if you were cooking a curry you'd have to keep the kitchen door shut or he'd have his furry face in the pot.

My cat used to go into a neighbour's house through the window and if he had left his milk out, she knocked it over to drink it. He caught her once, I don't what he did but she never went near his house again.