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I think my cat stole someone's Sunday lunch

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Duckingella · 14/01/2024 15:54

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

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Peanutsnanna · 14/01/2024 18:26

Just remembered the huge pigeon he sneaked up the stairs and into my bedroom where he gave it a good kicking. Feathers and bird poo everywhere and a dead pigeon in the middle of the bed. Didn't discover until bedtime.

Gingernan · 14/01/2024 18:31

One of mine stole a pork chop from under the grill,and also chewed a leg off a thawing frozen chicken when we were expecting guests. His friend used to bring treats from the delicatessen where he was 'mouser' the most interesting gift being a whole salami.

Broccoli5 · 14/01/2024 18:32

Our cat stole the neighbour's kid's small cuddly toy, we knew it was his so returned it and apologised. Our cat went straight back over there and stole it again...

2jacqi · 14/01/2024 18:33

@Duckingella just remembering the time my hubby shot a pheasant and i spent a couple of hours plucking the thing in the back garden. went inside to get a sharp knife to gut it and looked out the window to see next door neighbours cat running off with said pheasant!!!😅 it was the first and last pheasant I ever plucked. the feathers were all over the garden and looked like an accident had happened with a pillow!

Annella · 14/01/2024 18:33

Mammyloveswine · 14/01/2024 16:13

Please post a pic this is hilarious!!

Also can just imagine the confusion "where the fuck is the chicken?!"

Hilarious! I can just imagine someone scratching their head wondering whether now is the time to make that GP appointment 😂

SarahAndQuack · 14/01/2024 18:33

seagull82 · 14/01/2024 16:05

My cat ate next door's hamster!
Also rocked up with a boiling hot Cornish pasty in her mouth once. Mortified, I never told the neighbour, kinder to let her believe her hamster had escaped and run away.

That's a horrible thing to do. You should have told her.

Ketzele · 14/01/2024 18:34

My current cats live indoors, and I don't cook meat. Still, one loves to steal cooked spaghetti and any leafy vegetable, and the other presents me proudly with hair bands. All with that specific miaow that means, 'I bought you protein'.

Topsyturvy78 · 14/01/2024 18:34

One of my cat's growing up used to leave me dead mice under my bed. 🤣🤣🤣 When I got my first job as soon as I got home from work she would dart upstairs to my room yowling until I went up. She would sit there proudly showing off what she had brought me. I did try closing my door but someone would let her in to shut her up.

Gettingbysomehow · 14/01/2024 18:36

yepmeagain · 14/01/2024 16:11

You do realise that your cat has possibly done a poor (MN) woman out of her entire week's dinners for a family of 5?

And stopped her from boiling the bones for stock? 😳

😂😂😂😂😂OMG I'm dying!!

Giggorata · 14/01/2024 18:38

We'd just moved into a village when the lurcher jumped over the gate and grabbed a Jack Russell, jumped back and dropped it at DH's feet. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, with loads of neighbours outside watching, including the dog's owners.

TheFireflies · 14/01/2024 18:39

DecafOatMilkCappucino · 14/01/2024 17:58

This is Jose, the hairiest, hungriest, most slobbery labrador you could ever meet. We sadly lost him 2 years ago.

Once we were walking past a group of people sat in a circle on the beach doing some sort of group meditation/chanting. One man had left his lunch in a bag behind him and as we walked past Jose managed to swallow his sandwiches, including the clingfilm, without even breaking stride.

He also ate socks, underwear, dirty nappies, playdoh and cat poo. His most legendary story was when he dug up and ate our dead cat, threw her up, then ate her again. He was a twat but I miss him.

Genuinely in tears laughing at this

TerrysNeapolitan · 14/01/2024 18:40

Not one of my four rescue cats ever brought me anything! Feel short changed after reading this! Not one of them would toilet outside either - just popped back in to do a steamy poo in the litter tray then off out again!! We had the reverse problem, the cat bowls left outside would then go missing, we think that was the fox.....never found any of them.

shellyleppard · 14/01/2024 18:41

My old cat stole the remainder of our Sunday lunch once.....and the other cat used to knock my partners lunchbox over and run off with his sandwiches 😂😂

Willmafrockfit · 14/01/2024 18:41

my dm was very pleased she had bought herself a small chicken to roast today,
i hope it is safe!

our cat donated a plant in a pot outside our back door, planted it and it turned into a giant sunflower

SomethingBlues · 14/01/2024 18:42

Our cat brought back a cooked chicken leg and a Yorkshire pudding. Two separate trips. If he’d have lived longer I’d imagine he’d have completed the whole roast dinner plate

SameOldSong · 14/01/2024 18:46

Complaints from local chippy down the road, Runs in quick when customer goes in or comes out. I have to do the walk of shame and go and collect him. When he was younger he liked to follow us , now goes on his own accord.
Neighbours bought a garden table that they leave food on for birds to come down and eat, cat scoffs what he can, and uses it to sun bathe on, ends up with all bits of bread and butter, plus seeds, stuck to his long coat. ( Whilst never bothering at all with any of my garden furniture that l specifically bought to encourage him to stay in my own garden.)
Surrounding neighbours now pre warn me whenever they are having a BBQ due to his behaviour in the past, again lost count how many times I've had to go and retrieve the little sod, who is an absolute bugger to catch at the best of times. It's a good job l love him.

Fiddlerdragon · 14/01/2024 18:46

Ohdojustfuckoff · 14/01/2024 17:28

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

When I was about 9 my neighbours cat got to my dad’s Xmas turkey one year when it was resting, he’d opened the back door to let some steam out. Unfortunately for the cat my dad was a bastard. The cat didn’t survive :/

TinyRebel · 14/01/2024 18:47

The cats’ 4am howls of ‘owwwwt’ are very inconvenient, but reading this, am still very glad we don’t have a cat flap!

Mygosh · 14/01/2024 18:48

My old cat loved a fresh rabbit from the railway behind us.

One day I opened the front door to find a black and white rabbit dead in the hallway 😳 I did ask neighbours, but it's owner was never found.

MStarG · 14/01/2024 18:50

My friend's dog ate the entire cake that her mum had baked and decorated for her son's birthday party. Her mum had put it in the spare room so it was safe until it was time to bring it out but her dad had gone in for something and forgotten to close the door...

Twinklewonderkins · 14/01/2024 18:53

One of my cats is terrible for this, has in the past brought home
A Twix
some fancy French butter in a sausage shape cooked chicken wings
a packet of slightly defrosted mince
and once, a whole piping hot large takeaway spring roll. We live in a village and the nearest Chinese is about 8 miles away.
he obviously goes into houses on the rob.

Ohnoooooooo · 14/01/2024 18:54

Our fluffy ragdoll cat has found someone who likes to brush him - once a day he goes out and comes home well groomed and brushed. We always tell him how lovely he looks and he's quite pleased with himself.

Emeraldrings · 14/01/2024 18:55

My uncle turned round after making his lunch one day and when he turned back next doors cat was running out of the cat flap with his chicken in his mouth.

Paw2024 · 14/01/2024 18:56

My friend woke up to her cat dumping a kitten on her bed like "here, you're alright looking after us, I found this"
She woke her boyfriend up and he was just "ah well, we best keep it then"
They never found the mum or any other kittens despite looking for days and kept the dumped kitten

justasking111 · 14/01/2024 18:56

MStarG · 14/01/2024 18:50

My friend's dog ate the entire cake that her mum had baked and decorated for her son's birthday party. Her mum had put it in the spare room so it was safe until it was time to bring it out but her dad had gone in for something and forgotten to close the door...

OH that's bad mine only had the green Ghostbusters monster I had lovingly created and painted the day before out of marzipan that sat on top of the cake