Klepto Cats

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I just finished watching my recording of Cats 101. One segment was about kleptomaniac cats. It was cuter and funnier than anything!!! They highlighted several different cats from across the country. It was amazing what they stole. They would take things from small stuffed animals to gloves to even hardware for building a storage shed. There was no rhyme or reason to what they took, it was just what they looked at and liked. There were videos of the cats stealing bras and hauling them home. Then videos of them stealing lady's panties and shirts. It was hysterical watching them holding the stuff in their mouths and dragging it home between their legs. The cats would also steal towels...even bath towels!!! There were gloves added to the mix. The cats owners would try to return the items without much luck. They stacked the ill-gotten booty and tagged it with how many of each item and tacked the information to the stacks. It isn't one particular breed of cat that turns out to be a kleptomaniac, it's just something that they develop on their own. It was a fun segment to watch, I can just imagine the cat's person and their reaction to finding a bra, or something that wasn't from their home, laying on the floor of their living room. One owner is a (in my opinion, extremely cute) single gentleman who lives alone except for the cat. The video team was busily filming him holding the bra up to his chest; then asked the question "What am I supposed to do with a bra?" The next video was of a cat (different cat, much smaller) hauling home a towel. It was a medium sized terry cloth hand towel, but it was much larger than the cat. The cat was staggering with the towel between both his front feet and his hind feet. It was through sheer determination that the cat was able to haul the towel home, the cat was also well known for bringing home terry cloth bath towels!!! I can imagine the sight of the towel being drug between the four feet and his only being about 7 inches tall (he was still considered a kitten.) and maybe four or five pounds at most. I have had cats that retrieved for me, but not the kind that were klepto kitties. Of course, since Petey and Jonesy don't get to go outside I don't have that problem-yet. Fortunately, I saved the video and can watch it again. It was really fun and I had to share the fun with all the myLot friends.