Now owners Peter and Birgitt, who are fostering Oscar, plan to adopt the kleptomaniac cat after falling in love with his habit of bringing them up to ten “presents” a day. Peter Weismantel, 72, of Gordon Avenue, Portswood, said: “He started bringing socks home a few months ago and then gardening gloves which we tracked to our neighbour. Then we had a situation in which he brought back young women’s underwear. Bear in mind we live in a student area we didn’t know what to do and thought it would go away. Then it began to escalate and I telephoned the police as people must have been missing clothes – especially with women’s underwear being taken. But he just doesn’t stop.
“He’s still doing it now. We are thinking of training him as Fagin.” Over the last three weeks Oscar has brought home dozens of socks, various ladies knickers, builder’s gloves, a knee-pad, a paint roller, rubber gloves and gardening gloves. Earlier this week he brought home, one by one, ten pairs of children’s underpants.
Birgitt Weismantel, 56, who has been fostering Oscar from the Southampton Cats Protection charity since Christmas, said: “He brings them back as presents. We can’t give him back now as he makes such an effort with all these gifts. He’s got a lovely personality and is a very loving cat. I think we fell in love with him before he started taking all these things. It was just so touching to see him come home every day with something for us. When he can’t find us anything decent he brings us back some newspaper or a J-cloth.” Birgitt added that the police now have a detailed description of Oscar and have logged his thefts, which are believed to total around 70.
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Many thanks Mike!
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He must have been trained by some Perv...
Aw, maybe he sees that humans hoard a lot of these pieces of cloth, so figures they must be good gifts. He's not big/strong enough to steal big things like jeans and sweaters.
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