‘REALLY SORRY BUT MY CAT IS A THIEF’: EMBARRESSED OWNER DOBS IN MOGGIE
Source: NZ Herald (Extract)
Posted: December 4, 2022
If you have lost some socks, chances are it wasn’t the sock goblin but Henny the domestic Christchurch tabby.
“Henny started stealing dog toys about two [to three] years ago,” Logan Salton told The Star.
“It started with one or two toys and then turned into about 17 a night.”
Henny lives with Salton’s mum Jodi on Mortlake St, Islington, and would steal the toys from one of Jodi’s neighbours.
“They’d send their 7-year-old boy around after school every day to come and pick up the toys,” Salton said.
By the next morning, Henny would have stolen them again.
Initially, the Saltons could return the stolen items, which grew to include underwear, garden gloves and pyjama bottoms.
But the 5-year-old cat has recently expanded her radius and the Saltons now have no clue who her latest collection of items belong to, which range from 20 socks to a hoodie to a laundry bag.
It led to Salton posting a flyer on the Hornby Community Group Facebook.
“The flyer that I put on Facebook mum dropped off to pretty much everyone who lives down her street and still no one’s come and got the things yet,” he said.
He admitted it was a bit embarrassing having to go around and tell everyone Henny had stolen their belongings.
While most found it hilarious, one lady was not so amused.
“The worst one was when the lady down the road came chasing after her because she stole her pyjama bottoms off the clothes horse … in her garage and saw her running down her driveway from her lounge and followed her all the way down the road to her house.”
She said they should look into therapy for Henny.
That neighbour boarded up her cat-flap to stop the master cat burglar, but even that could not stop Henny.
The Saltons have tried many times to stop her – such as locking her inside or telling her off – but nothing has dampened her thieving spirits.
When she was not thieving, Henny was a “cuddly, friendly, loud” family cat who would let anyone pat her, Salton said.
If you live around Mortlake St, Islington, and have lost items to an unknown assailant contact Salton on Facebook.
