Caturday felid twofer: Feline recidivism—Theo the Cat returns to burglarizing, supermarket cat refuses to leave Sainsbury’s

This website has featured Theo the Cat, famed for drinking espresso, but there’s still another British cat named Theo, and he’s infamous for burglarizing. Apparently some cats just love to purloin other people’s stuff. I’ve previously had posts about the thieving Denis from Luton and Dusty from California, but now we have Theo from Ipswich.

As the BBC reports, Theo began his life of crime in 2013, and, after being given probation, has now resumed his evil ways:

Kleptomaniac Theo, from Ipswich, first hit the headlines in 2013 for stealing Christmas decorations.

Recently he has been stealing toy food, including a pineapple and an aubergine.

“We are deeply ashamed of our cat, especially as he had convinced us that he had changed his criminal ways,” his owner wrote to neighbours.

Rachael Drouet created a leaflet for her neighbours [below] in a bid to reunite the stolen items with their rightful owners.

“This year has been relatively quiet, save for some Bettaware catalogues and the odd flat balloon,” the leaflet read.

“Until a few days ago when he started bring home toy food.

“So far we have cheese, a green pepper, fish, a pineapple, an aubergine, and a felt basket to put them all in.”

Theo, a five-year-old Siamese cross, also managed to bring home a child’s body warmer.

Earlier this year, he stole a catalogue from a house down the street owned by a policeman, which Ms Drouet said “wasn’t ideal”.

Among the items stolen in the last couple of years are muslin cloths, fluffy pens, a USB phone charger cable and a child’s piece of art.

Theo also took to stealing Christmas decorations from neighbours’ trees.

Here’s Theo and his latest haul of toy food and a basket (not including the hooded vest, which is shown below):

The staff’s apologetic but hilarious note (click to enlarge):

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And yesterday’s Bored Panda reports on another mischievous British cat: one Ollie from the London district of Brockley. Ollie loves to frequent a nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket:

Cats go where they want and do what they want. In the case of one kitty in London, it means going to a supermarket. This cat was first spotted in November while parading around in Sainsbury’s in Brockley. Later on identified as Olly Oliver, this six-year-old had been removed from the premises by store security. But seeing how cats have no fear of laws of man or God (and they’re highly suspicious of this “physics” thing), he’s at it again.

So Oliver is stalking the shelves again and judging Londoners on their shopping. He’s quite famous among the locals, but Sainsbury’s management isn’t trying to capitalize off this free publicity. A store spokesperson said “He lives in the house next door and he’s in here every day, all the time. He’s not allowed to be here, the staff like him, but he is a health and safety risk.” I, for one, wish that more stores had regular cat visitors.

How can they heave this cat out of the store? Those health regulations are just dumb!

The photo captions come from the website:

h/t: Richard B., Taskin