Cat Burglar steals 600 items from neighborhood gets no jail-time

[Ichingcarpenter]

Lucky for Dusty he's a cat. Otherwise he'd surely be in jail, or at least a 12-step program. The San Mateo feline has pilfered more than 600 items from neighbors - behavior so odd it's baffled and delighted animal experts and made Dusty a minor celebrity.

"It's extreme, but it's absolutely adorable," said Marilyn Krieger, a cat behavior consultant in Redwood City. "I can't say exactly why he's doing it, except it has to do with mixed-up neurotransmitters. I think it's a form of OCD



"He stole my bikini," said Kelly McLellan, who lives a few doors up the street. "He did it in two trips. He was very focused on keeping the ensemble. When it went missing I wasn't worried, though. I knew where to go."





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[charlie and algernon]

1. Dusty just gave every kid in San Mateo the power to use "But I swear, the cat stole my homework!"

:rofl:

[Aerows]

2. He's hilarious!

They have a video on youtube of him dragging home a bra LOL, and he somehow stole some guys briefs, a bunch of stuffed animals and a pair of tennis shoes LOL.

[hifiguy]

3. This cat was featured on an Animal Planet show.

They followed him around the neighborhood with an infrared camera while he was on his cat-burgling adventures.

[MinneapolisMatt]

4. "He stole my bikini"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Luminous Animal]

5. I had a cat like that. When he first started out and we'd ask our neighbors

if they were missing a pot holder or socks, or underwear, they'd look at us like we were psychic or nuts (or both!) We once ended up with 19 and a half pairs of construction gloves... we couldn't return them because we couldn't figure out where they were coming from. He also liked to decorate the yard with leaves... as soon as we finished raking, he'd spend hours bringing in new leaves from around the neighborhood.

I loved that odd little cat.

[provis99]

6. sentence him to hard time at Obedience School.

[leftynyc]

7. Obedience school? For cats?

You've never owned a kitty, have you? ;-)

[Gormy Cuss]

Cat obedience school is where cats

train their humans.
;-)

[leftynyc]

10. Ah - that makes sense

I've also heard dogs have owners, cats have staff. My two giant tuxedos agree and let me share their home and take care of them.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Here's another one in Switzerland..My god its spreading

Speedy has stolen so much loot that its owner had to post leaflets throughout a northern Swiss town saying "Help, our cat steals!" and inviting people to recover their missing things.
Margrit Geiger of Wiesendangen said her kleptomaniac cat switched three years ago from bringing home mice to stealing badminton shuttlecocks, all to impress her teenage son.

Then the cat began specializing in gloves, scarves and T-shirts. The latest obsession: underwear and black socks.

Geiger told the Swiss daily Blick the cat has nabbed more than 100 items, and the paper said Thursday some neighbors have already claimed items back.


http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_re_eu/eu_odd_switzerland_klepto_cat


I think its an international conspiracy by cats

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CAT IS?

I THOUGHT NOT.

[Wait Wut]

9. All my cats have been indoor cats, but...

...my old Py used to steal my son's socks and bury them in the litter box. He'd also steal my bras and put them in his kitty bed. I guess it kind of tells you where he thought he should rank in the family.