My Cat Is A THIEF!

[WillParkinson]

I was sitting here quietly drinking a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew. I put the cap from the bottle on the table and suddenly there was a flash of movement to my right. I look and here's Dot grabbing the cap and trying to run off with it.

I took it away, put him down on the floor and boom...he's back up on the table trying to make a dash with the cap. I put him down on the floor a second time. He sat there looking up at me. So I took the cap, held it down to him and he snatched it and ran off. Now he's in the kitchen banging it around on the floor.

[adriennel]

1. heh

at least he's stealing your own stuff...my cat ate a bag of cat food in my neighbor's garage! very embarrassing

[havocmom]

2. bottle caps are the best-est cat toys

Had a pair of feline hocky players. They would steal and horde bottle caps. When there was nothing going on to amuse them, they would head to the kitchen with a cap from their horde.

One cat would position herself in front of the fridge. The other would be in the center of the room with the cap. As if a buzzer went off, the game would start. One cat racing around, batting the cap like crazy, the other tensed and repositioning herself constantly in front of the fridge. Then... the slap shot. Goalie would dive to prevent the score.

If there was a score, the pair would sip to their treasure shest of caps for a new on, positions would reverse and the game would continue.

Maybe your cat is trying to teach you a game?

[WillParkinson]

3. Doubt it...

He took it and ran off to play with his adopted brother. I threw the cap in the bathtub and they played with it for nearly an hour yesterday before they feline-ly fell asleep.

[havocmom]

6. now that would be fun to watch!

My daughter's cats refuse to play with anything designed to be a cat toy. They love digging odd things out of the trash to play with.

Favorite toy is the yellow plastic seal from jars of peanuts. Havocpup calls it 'the precious' as the two felines get so obsessed with posessing it. The antics as they steal it from each other then try to hide it are amusing.

[terrya]

4. Those sneaky cats!

My cat loves to play with those caps.

I don't buy toys for Chess. She can have so much fun with a simple bottle cap. Or a plastic bag. Or a cardboard box (she loves to jump in and out of the box).

:-)

Terry

[WillParkinson]

5. For Dot it was paper bags!

For Cider it was Cat and Star. He just LOVES batting his sisters (or, in this case HISSSSSSS-ters) around.

[AlGore-08.com]

7. Sounds like you need a pair of kitty handcuffs

[sasquatch]

8. I used to have a cat that would eat whole Tomato's and Green Peppers

:D

[LynneSin]

9. My cat steals my bottles of Aquafina and plays with them as a toy

full, empty doesn't matter. If I leave a bottle of it lying around the damn cat will grab it and amuse himself for hours.

Ironically he ignores the $100+ in cat toys I've bought him

:shrug:

[sasquatch]

11. Ours have destroyed their cat toys

We occaisonaly find a toy mouse they've hidden.

[LynneSin]

16. You want my extra cat toys?

They're all collecting dust from lack of interest from my snobby cat

:shrug:

[SheilaT]

10. Our cats like to play

a game we call midnight hockey, which consists of batting something around in the middle of the night. It can be noisy enough to wake us up.

[Brewman_Jax]

12. He's not a thief

it's just that your stuff belongs to him, his stuff belongs to him, you belong him.

[undergroundpanther]

13. Heh,

Vinny my black velvet kittie he has a thing for drinking straws.
He'll pull them right outta your cup with his teeth...he'll do it to visitors drinks too he has no shame.
He is so sly about it,too. I love my pretty Vinny sweetie cat.

[WillParkinson]

14. Anything on the ground is a cat's toy...

Anything not on the ground will be.

[geniph]

15. One of mine can't resist pens

or hair-fastening implements - scrunchies, rubberbands, barrettes. He steals anything I use to tidy my hair, and all pens MUST be batted to the floor. I can never find any pens in this @#$%^&* house!

[jpak]

17. I woke up one morning

and saw my kitten Jake on the bed with a $20 bill in his mouth.

(he likes to play fetch in the AM)

He ran off and I never saw it again!

bad bad bad...

[geniph]

18. One of my brothers,

a heavy (pot) smoker, used to have a hell of a time with one of his cats snacking on or making off with his stash. Damn cat must have thought it was catnip. He'd eat a whole bag. I can't count the times that cat chewed through a baggie and left scattered leaves everywhere. I'm surprised my brother never simply smoked the cat.