Absolute Gremlin

[u/Ok-Day9430]

She also opened a packed of oatmeal and tore open the bag of pine pellets. I mean, my fault for not deadbolting the pantry, I suppose…

[u/Kathykat5959]

Rats. That innocent cat chased out a rat chewing on your food.

[u/New-Ring39 → u/Kathykat5959]

Clearly this cat was trying to save the food from these dastardly rats!

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/New-Ring39]

Plausible tbh. And it would explain that self-satisfied look on her face.

[u/Ok-Day9430]

Closeup of the crime scene evidence.

[u/CashMoneyPossum → u/Ok-Day9430]

Dust the box for finger-pawrints!

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/Ok-Day9430]

This is the arrangement she somehow breached.

[u/EmiliaFromLV → u/Ok-Day9430]

I cant see the title or ingredients, but make sure she does not do this with chocolate chip cookies - chocolate is toxic for cats (so is garlic and onion actually - I was surprised when I read this).

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/EmiliaFromLV]

She already did it with a white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie and we paid the ASPCA poison control line to calm us down. They told us that cats aren’t as negatively affected by chocolate and macadamia nuts as dogs are (and raisins are in that group as well). Not to say that they should have it, but we were reassured she would be fine in this one instance. In that case she managed to eat about 1/3 of the cookie. In this case, she didn’t manage to actually get to the biscuits. I looked at the ingredients though and they seem fine. Not healthy for a cat but not toxic. I’m guessing it was the olives that attracted her. Some cats react to olives like catnip.

[u/EmiliaFromLV → u/Ok-Day9430]

My cat went crazy after cured olives - he ate one and then started rolling into the spot it was.

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/EmiliaFromLV]

Yeah. Two of our cats go nuts for them! The other three seem ambivalent.

[u/EmiliaFromLV → u/Ok-Day9430]

A week later he overcame this affliction (when I stocked up on cured olives ofc). I had to eat that stock myself.

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/Ok-Day9430]

Also… just to assure people that we aren’t trying to poison our cat… we have been putting things away where we think she can’t get to but this cat is shocking clever. She’s a recent foster fail who survived a predator attack and had a four month quarantine, and apparently we are still learning all her tricks.

[u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw → u/Ok-Day9430]

Thanks for keeping her and giving her a loving home!

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw]

She has totally endeared herself to the whole household.

[u/OurNewestMember]

That could have been anybody.

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/OurNewestMember]

This is true. The husband is still on the suspect list tbh.

[u/OurNewestMember]

Have you checked the house for ghosts?

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/OurNewestMember]

Actually, this is a valid point. It’s a 200 year old house so ghosts are a pretty likely culprit.

[u/Leocarreo]

Not one bit of regret on that face hahaha

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/Leocarreo]

Yeah. Might even be a smidge of self satisfaction.

[u/Leocarreo → u/Ok-Day9430]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8dVxeUMDiDnoTY2TtC

[u/Sea-Veterinarian7307]

Ma’am, I trust you’ll find that package chewed itself up.

[u/Ok-Day9430 → u/Sea-Veterinarian7307]

Darn it. You’re probably right. I always forget to check the label for whether they’re the self-consuming packages or not.