nanila | The Harbinger of the Catpocalypse

Perhaps you're wondering why I'm showing you a fuzzy phone photo of an open refrigerator door. Let me explain.

The bloke & I planned to make fish pie for a couple of guests on Friday evening. On his way home from work on Thursday evening, he stopped by the shops and obtained the fish. Our refrigerator in the kitchen is not large and typically holds only the items we need for our everyday needs. The conservatory houses a far larger refrigerator. We call it "the beer fridge" and indeed it contains a fair amount of lager, wine and mixers, but it's really our main fridge, otherwise we couldn't keep much more than a couple of days' worth of supplies in the house. The bloke blithely popped the fish in the beer fridge for the night.

You may observe in the photo that there is a tub of suet balls just below the edge of the fridge door. This is sitting on top of an equally sized tub of bird seed. It so happens that the stacking of these two items produces a comfortable cat-sized platform.

On Friday evening, I popped out to retrieve the fish. That was when I discovered the scene pictured above. On the floor were some pilfered packets of fish.

This explained the highly content and extremely sleepy cat lounging upstairs on the spare room bed, who had oddly not come down to beg for his dinner when I went into the kitchen.

Our cat. He watched the bloke put away the fish. He waited until the following day. He climbed on the cat platform the humans had foolishly left for him. He opened the refrigerator door. And he stole the fish.

Mangled fishy containers.

Pilfered cod.

Pilfered smoked haddock.

I knew I shouldn't have trusted that face.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Date: 2013-03-03 09:44 pm (UTC)

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surexit

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OH SHIT.

Date: 2013-03-04 09:03 am (UTC)

nanila

INORITE?! Maybe we should just nail everything down now before Humuhumu learns to walk.

Date: 2013-03-03 10:04 pm (UTC)

azurelunatic

Smart cat! Guard your cod-pieces!

Date: 2013-03-04 09:04 am (UTC)

He got the rest of them as well. Cheeky little sod!

Date: 2013-03-03 10:12 pm (UTC)

wordweaverlynn

Your feline overlord is very smart.

Date: 2013-03-04 09:05 am (UTC)

I'm not certain which bit scares me more: the opening of the fridge door or the waiting for the opportune moment.

Date: 2013-03-04 12:33 am (UTC)

majoline

That cat is a master planner.

Date: 2013-03-04 09:07 am (UTC)

I can't believe he waited over twelve hours to steal the fish. That's just eerie.

Date: 2013-03-04 12:58 am (UTC)

meloukhia

Cats, man. Give 'em an inch and they'll steal your fish.

Date: 2013-03-04 09:06 am (UTC)

Because two packets of gooshy food a day and all the crunchies you can eat clearly isn't enough for a poor hungry moggie.

Date: 2013-03-04 05:08 pm (UTC)

That poor kitty. I should report you to the RSPCA!

Date: 2013-03-04 03:03 am (UTC)

ironed_orchid

Time to install locks on the fridge.

Date: 2013-03-04 07:40 am (UTC)

sfred

Yes: my parents had to put a child lock on their fridge when the cats worked out how to open it. Bizarrely, those cats would ignore the meat and steal the mushrooms.

Date: 2013-03-04 08:13 am (UTC)

When Jaz was a kitten, he and Daj would eat any bread that was left out on the table. Even if it was still in a plastic bag. We quickly learned to put it in the fridge or pantry as soon as we got the shopping home.

Date: 2013-03-04 09:11 am (UTC)

Telstar loves fresh bread! Maybe it's the saltiness?

Date: 2013-03-04 09:10 am (UTC)

Cats have very peculiar tastes sometimes. Once, when I was away, the bloke took advantage of my absence (and aversion to very spicy dishes) to order a vindaloo. Telstar yummed up all the sauce off his plate - and there hadn't been any meat left on it when he started eating it.