A cat that retains bringing random bits of garbage and different objects home by way of his cat flap is on a mission “to maintain Britain clear”, his proprietor mentioned.
Tofu was taken in by Jane Sweet, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, who discovered the stray kitten final September.
Since then, Tofu has been bringing home crisp packets, cardboard containers and even a roll of unused canine poo luggage.
“I joked with pals that he was cleansing up Britain’s streets, one piece of garbage at a time,” she mentioned.
Miss Sweet arrange a digicam so she may watch Tofu and his adoptive sister, Sushi, coming and going.
While calico cat Sushi, aged six, proudly brings home mice, Miss Sweet mentioned Tofu appeared greater than happy with the occasional worm, caterpillar or moist leaf he would drag by way of the cat flap.
But the teenager has since upped his recreation.
“The digicam caught Tofu bringing me presents,” she mentioned.
Miss Sweet freely admitted her cat’s “presents” have been “random bits of garbage – it’s tat, primarily”.
The first random merchandise he offered to his human mum was a filter tip from a cigarette.
“From there, I’ve had a bag of fish meals pellets, a Nutella lid, a jam doughnut field, a lamb shank bone, crisp packets and canine poo luggage. The listing goes on,” Miss Sweet mentioned.
Why do cats do that?
Cat biologist and behaviourist Roger Tabor informed the BBC that cats typically introduced home “trophies” – normally meals scavenged from bins.
“The actual cat burglars are those who usually convey again an assortment of human-associated objects,” he mentioned.
“This might be as a result of they weren’t taught by their moms to catch dwell prey.”
Miss Sweet mentioned Sushi appeared “a bit confused when Tofu is available in with a treasure”.
“She’ll have a look at it, odor it, after which her face seems like she’s saying, ‘Like. actually?’.
“I had assumed Tofu was discovering all of his presents from folks’s gardens or within the bushes.
“It wasn’t till he introduced home a bag of cat treats (that was greater than half full) that I believed, truly, possibly he’s getting into folks’s properties.
“I felt the necessity to put a submit on the native Facebook group for the city and apologise if he has been moving into somebody’s home and stealing issues.”
She added: “I used to be overwhelmed with folks’s feedback on my submit – it appears he has introduced smiles to many individuals’s faces and I hope they are going to proceed to get pleasure from Tofu’s extraordinary presents.”
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