The owner’s sign attracted a lot of amusement
(Picture: KOIN/ YouTube)A woman with a kleptomaniac kitten has made a sign to warn people passing to keep their belongings on their purrson. (Sorry.)
Kate Felmet of Beaverton, Oregon, told local news station KOIN that she made the sign, reading, “My cat is a thief, please take these items if they are yours” after her cat, Esme, stole numerous discarded gloves and face masks in the area. It was accompanied with a washing line with the missing items hanging off it.
She said Esme stole from parks, neighbours’ garages and other places in the local area, and would always present them to Felmet with pride.
Sign of the day. pic.twitter.com/fgr0vC4Z0O
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) June 10, 2021
“As soon as I put the sign up, she went for about a week not bringing my anything, she was a little mad about it,” Felmet said.
But since posting the sign, it has attracted more online amusement than people wishing to reclaim their items.
“People come by and take things now and then,” she said.
Indeed, people on social media were very much ameowsed by the cat’s antics and the reactions came flooding in as people shared anecdotes about their own mischievous pets:
Ollie was an indoor cat. He brought us gifts from our basement: the lint brush from the dryer, rubber gloves, curls of wood if my husband had used the plane but not swept up, little containers of screws and nails.
— Suzanne Gerhold (@Suzanne47) June 10, 2021
Our cat stole (as a baby) stuffed plush vegetables (preferrably cucumbers) from the play kitchen in the nearby kindergarden (and probably all kid's rooms in the neighboorhood), we have dozens of the. pic.twitter.com/Z2xzN5HbCN
— Viele Grüsse (@FrauBruellen) June 12, 2021
My cat used to come home with the collars of other cats- I was convinced he was a cat serial killer and these were his trophies. I used to sleep with a knife under my pillow. pic.twitter.com/bY7Nl0aWrF
— spite is my motivation (@1EEX303) June 11, 2021
It’s always great to see a pawistive story to lighten up a heavy news year.
