Being owned by an Oriental and a Cornish Rex cross I am well acquainted with the notion that nothing is going to end up where I left it unless it is nailed down.
Both of them will steal anything, Radar has a favourite hiding place under the sofa, and Sonic likes to put things in our bed under the covers (either he hasn't worked out that we will find things left there, or he enjoys booby-trapping the bed with household objects
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The last few days though they have really taken the biscuit, and there are 2 incidents that are noteworthy.
1) We were away at the weekend and on Sunday I got a series of frantic text messages from my extremely shortsighted cat-sitter because the cats had stolen his glasses and were stalking and pouncing on him as he crawled around nearly-blind on his hands and knees feeling around on the floor for them. He found them in the foodbowl after about 3 hours of searching, so I know the culprit was Radar as he is a manic food-coverer.
2) Last night Nate came home with a Chinese take-away. He put the bag down on the floor, I went to the kitchen to fetch plates and chopsticks. Our backs were turned for around 10 seconds. When I returned to the sitting room the scene that greeted me was that of a young grey cat pulling a foil container full of spring rolls across the floor in his teeth. Backwards. With a look of utter determination on his face. He'd managed to get it half way across the room, and appeared to be heading for the bedroom with it.
How long will it be before I see their faces on the evening news under the words "WANTED"????
Are your cats thieves too? What have they stolen?
Both of them will steal anything, Radar has a favourite hiding place under the sofa, and Sonic likes to put things in our bed under the covers (either he hasn't worked out that we will find things left there, or he enjoys booby-trapping the bed with household objects
The last few days though they have really taken the biscuit, and there are 2 incidents that are noteworthy.
1) We were away at the weekend and on Sunday I got a series of frantic text messages from my extremely shortsighted cat-sitter because the cats had stolen his glasses and were stalking and pouncing on him as he crawled around nearly-blind on his hands and knees feeling around on the floor for them. He found them in the foodbowl after about 3 hours of searching, so I know the culprit was Radar as he is a manic food-coverer.
2) Last night Nate came home with a Chinese take-away. He put the bag down on the floor, I went to the kitchen to fetch plates and chopsticks. Our backs were turned for around 10 seconds. When I returned to the sitting room the scene that greeted me was that of a young grey cat pulling a foil container full of spring rolls across the floor in his teeth. Backwards. With a look of utter determination on his face. He'd managed to get it half way across the room, and appeared to be heading for the bedroom with it.
How long will it be before I see their faces on the evening news under the words "WANTED"????
Are your cats thieves too? What have they stolen?
