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My new cat is trying to get dumped. She's getting us into trouble with the neighbours. This is what I've just posted on the communal laundry door.

Warning! – Thief In The Area!

Well, cat-burglar to be exact.

I’m afraid our new kitten, Meep, has taken to raiding the laundry shed and stealing socks. Nothing else, just socks. Then she proudly brings them home to me and I return them.

So, if you find that you’re missing more socks than usual, then it’s probably Miss Meep The Cat Burglar to blame. As soon as we find them we return them so you should only be sockless for a couple of hours.

I’ve tried closing the door to the laundry room but I’m afraid she can still sneak under the door. She’s very determined.

We’ve tried talking to her, even threatened to ground her, but she just doesn’t listen. So we’ve decided to feed her up until she’s too fat to get under the door and then your socks will be safe. Until then, there’s a couple of things you can do.

1) Try to make sure your socks aren’t on show.
2) Try to make sure they aren’t balled up – she almost always goes for rolled up socks and not floppy ones.

We apologise for causing all this trouble and we’ll try to break her of this habit as soon as we can. We can only ask for your understanding and blame this on the fact that Meep was abandoned as a kitten and had to feed herself by catching wild socks.

I blame the parents.

Joe at number 4
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 9:15, 15 replies)

Nice one, Legless
I like the idea of calling a cat Meep, too!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 9:26, closed)

excellent notice dude
glad my cat doesn't steal socks, I live with 3 smelly blokes :(

she does however steal lighters - WIN
(Reverend Samson Fapohunda B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 9:35, closed)

there is indeed something
about animals and socks. My dog loves them, and my 2 cats - as kittens - would often be seen with them hanging ridiculously out of their mouths, like big, stripey-blue cotton tongues.

Awww. =)
( Matoosh would rather like a biscuit, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 9:38, closed)

WE NEED PICTURES!
now!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:04, closed)

Errr
It just so happens that Miss Meep has her own (very crude) website.

meep.daftdoggy.com

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:18, closed)

hehehe how cute
my cat also says 'meep', but seems almost incapable of a proper meow. I think it's cos she ran head first into a table leg as a kitten.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:21, closed)

awwwww
*feels tickly*

Cute kitty.
(jennymnemonic, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:22, closed)

Miss Meep
Is a rescue cat.

She was abandoned in Ferntree Gully along with her sister and the RSPCA reckoned she'd been living rough for a couple of months before she was captured.

So now we have her. For a cat that had been living rough she's incredibly loving. But just with me and Anna. She doesn't like strangers.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:37, closed)

You big fucking softy!
Don't deny it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:42, closed)

That's sweet
and Meep is the best cat name I have heard in years.
(quagarr, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:45, closed)

@Davros
Softy? Me?

Never. I'm dead hard I am. And guess what Mr "Hardman" Legless is doing tonight?

Baking bread.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:48, closed)

Cats
Were once worshipped as Gods.
And the little feckers have never forgotten.

And I've updated my profile.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 12 Jun 2008, 10:48, closed)

Legless...
You've just proven my point.

I am, of course, kidding - Legless is, as they say, in touch with his sensitive side. I've stayed at his house and saw all the moisturising cream in the bathroom.

Or was that Andy's?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 12 Jun 2008, 11:21, closed)

:D
I used to have a cat called Meep! He was black&white though... Evil bastard too, but I forgave him since he was far too cute :')
(Balue Free From Tetanus, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 11:23, closed)