Hamilton cat burglar nabs neighbours undies in the night

DONNA-LEE BIDDLE

March 20 2016

Mark Taylor

 

Cat burglar Brigit proudly sits among some of the booty she's claimed.

Every night for the past two months, a burglar has been lurking the streets of Claudelands stealing mens' underwear and socks.
Brigit, a six-year-old Tonkinese cat, has an oddball obsession with underwear, hauling a dozen boxer briefs and around 60 single socks.
The obsession was largely unnoticed until her owner, Sarah Nathan, started packing her house to move.

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Brigit, a six-y
ear-old Tonkinese cat who lives in Hamilton, has hauled an impressive amount of men's underwear and socks over the last two months.

"I pulled out the bag of stuff [that Brigit] had collected and thought, oh God, I wonder who these belong to?" Nathan said.

"We noticed Brigit would come home in the mornings and we'd snap her with a sock in her mouth. Or if it was too big to fit in the cat flap, we'd find a pile of undies outside.

"She would even bring them to bed, or put them in a pile next to the bed."
But the obsession with undergarments is not a new thing.
​"She did this when we lived in Beerescourt and our neighbours hated us for it," Nathan said.

"I would find the odd sock or pair of undies and would say to the kids, 'well who do these belong to?'.
"She would bring home kids things, like togs and kids underwear and stuff so I didn't keep those.
"And one time she brought home a shin pad that was bigger than her."
Nathan said she thought most of the items belonged to one person. She said she had put notes in letterboxes in her suburb but so far, no-one had come forward.


The advertisement was posted online along with a photo of the cat burglar in question and her ill-gotten gains.



But there was a post on social media on Sunday morning, after Nathan has posted about the incidents, from a man who said the underwear looked familiar.
"The underwear that Brigit's brought home lately have been a little worse for wear so she's probably taken all the good stuff," Nathan said.
"These breeds of cat, she's crossed with a Siamese cat and a Burmese cat, are quite obsessive.
"It's just the fact that she's decided her obsession will be men's underwear."
The Nathan family are moving to the country soon and her owner hopes Brigit will find another hobby.
"Hopefully there's something there she can find to catch but if not we may have to stash some undies around the farm to keep her stimulated."

INTERNET DELIGHTS IN CAT'S ANTICS

Brigit's antics delighted internet users across the globe after the images were posted to Reddit.
Users were quick to turn the image into a meme based on the Khajiit cat-like character from the video game series, The Elder Scrolls whose tagline is: "Khajiit has wares, if you have coin."


Other users compared the cat shaming photo to those taken when police make "a huge weapons bust"

 

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