Cat steals Christmas Ham

[pinkhalf]

I have just come home and found a fresh ham, studded with cloves on the hall runner. One pleased looking tom cat sitting nearby.

Previous gifts have included a bottle of bicycle oil, a twig, and some frightened looking rodents. But the ham probably belongs to a nearby lunch! I'm imagining a party of disappointed faces!

Anyone else have a magpie cat? And can you do anything about it, its going to get embarrassing if he breaks into houses and starts rifling around their kitchens on a regular basis...

[bootsycollins]

Hahahaha! Love it! Your cats a legend! Give him his 15 minutes of fame and ring the local paper, that way he can make his very heartfelt public apology and you can give everyone else a good laugh. I wanna see his smug little face! Brilliant!

[MarinaIvy]

Years ago, my partner and his then-partner woke up one Christmas morning to:

thumpTHUMP thumpTHUMP, thumpTHUMP

downstairs, for two minutes solid

In the kitchen was their proud-looking - btw, VERY tiny cat, with a cooked turkey twice the size of her and (this the freaky part) twice the size of the cat-flap. They still don't know how she did it.

Several tall backwalls between what they think is the source of the dinner and theirs, but the Rubik's Cat Flap was the complete mystery.

And the next year, she brought home a similarly-sized ham.

This was in the Stockport part of Manchester in the late 80s, btw. And a pre-emptive "nice try, Netto".

[pinkhalf]

An update. I never found the ham owner, so he got to eat it all.

I have just been presented with a fresh cooked chicken breast. I can only conclude that he is robbing houses to bring this stuff back.

[cozietoesie]

Oh yes - he'll be robbing houses. (Unless you have any restaurants or takeaways within striking distance?)

People might leave a kitchen window open to dissipate cooking smells, or have an unguarded/insecure cat flap. All in a night's work for a determined thief cat.

[NorthernLurker]

Your cat is legend!

Poor persons who lost their ham - dh suggest there may have been a HUGE domestic confrontation over disappeared ham.........

[Purplemonster]

Ha ha that's brilliant, for once I'm quite glad my cats are stupid and lazy!
I did used to know someone whose cat regularly dragged live rabbits in through the cat flap so I suppose at least the little thief is pinching stuff you don't have to chase round the house.

[cozietoesie]

So far!

[pinkhalf]

Oh no, I've had two mice in the last week but didn't think that was relevant!