Does your Pet steal your food?

[Freckles]

I remember an incident with Freckles. I had been out to a dinner of chicken and dumplings at a favorite restaurant. Too much chicken. so I returned home with two pieces of breast meat in a foam plastic container. Put it on the kitchen counter, intending to put it in the fridge after I hung my coat up in the closet. I forgot, went on to another task, then later to bed.

Guess what I found in the morning?

Empty container on the floor.

[columbine]

Smudge is very well-mannered. He doesn't steal, or ever jump on the counter (even for a mouse!) But he begs. He always knows when I've got cheese, and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s his l-o-o-o-o-n-g body up (he can reach the edge of the counter) and trills hungrily, and he always gets a tiny crumb of cheese in his bowl. With his penchant for imitating human speech, a couple of times his "Thank you!" was almost intelligible in English!

Love, Columbine

[lvpets2002]

In fact just this past Sunday one of the babies stole a rice krispie treat off of my plate.. Yup I have wittle theives.. I think its just too funny to watch them run off with food.. However most of the time I just give them the food..

[Kalei]

My Cat Ninja...He is like a dog! He begs all the time and has no problem eating anything that may be on our plates! I can always count on him to pick up any food we drop on the floor lol. He even steals my bunnies food lol and his food is basically hay.

I'm not sure if hay is good for cat's to digest or not lol

[wombat2u2004]

My Cat Ninja...He is like a dog! He begs all the time and has no problem eating anything that may be on our plates! I can always count on him to pick up any food we drop on the floor lol. He even steals my bunnies food lol and his food is basically hay.

I'm not sure if hay is good for cat's to digest or not lol

Hmmmmmm....interesting.
So, does Ninja eat hay often ????
And when he "Meow's"....does it sound a little like a "Moooooo" ???
I'd get Ninja checked out. He might really be a tiny little cow that looks like a cat

[Bengalz]

Evie doesn't steal food but she does climb up onto our chairs and sits between us at dinner (we have learned to keep our barstools close together so she doesn't fall thru the crack). She then stares right thru us with "those eyes" - who can refuse her anything??? And, that's how Eve manages to 'share' our dinner with us

[BarbPond]

Our little Gabby loves to steal food and if you put something on the floor for the other cats you can just bet that Gabby will get it first!

The new kitten Michael is worse then Gabby was! At least Gabby was somewhat particular about what he wanted. Well Michael dont care what it is! If he can steal it and chew it up he is happy. This little cat seems to like everything, but especially veggies & meat. He will even drink my ice tea!

The rest of the cats just politely beg

Hubby just reminded me that Michael did turn up his nose at some fried catfish the other day.

[Motheroflucky]

My duck will take food right out of your mouth if not carefull! Once I was eating roman noodles right next to my house duck (who's name is Lucky by the way.) and took the noodles right out of my mouth! He will also try and take cheese. I used to have a cat named trouble, she used to take her claws and snatch my food!

[Vette]

Kirby did once but i caught him in the act the second time an he was so guilty that he slinked off an got his crate on his own. from than ive purposely set food out on my desk to see if i can catch him in the act again but so far he hasnt attempted it thankfully

[mrspunkysmom]

Emily will and not feel guilty. I think she survived in her former place by eating garbage, human food thrown away. So she loves taking my meat and veggies off the plate.

Emily actually managed to removed a chicken tender from a sealed box through the bottom without tearing up the box. If I hadn't found her on the floor eating the chicken, I would never had known she had raided my dinner.