By Faye Mayern
A mischievous moggy has turned his back on hunting mice – and has been bringing back pieces of litter through his cat flap instead.
Nine-month-old Tofu has been bringing plastic containers, a roll of poo bags and even a lamb shank bone back to his home.
His owner, Jane Sweet, has caught the white and brown kitten on a camera bringing back rubbish through his cat flap and proudly placing them around his home.
He was taken in by Miss Sweet, from Stevenage, Herts, after she found him as a stay kitten in the pouring rain last September.
Miss Sweet, 41, said: “Tofu started to bring back leaves and worms after I first started letting him out into the garden again in the run up to Christmas last year.
“Before long, he bought me some parcel tape, fish food pellets and a Nutella lid.
“It’s just carried on since then with mostly food related things but once he did come back with a cigarette filter tip.”
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Miss Sweet added that she thought that Tofu had been copying his adopted brother Kimchi who would regularly bring back mice.
However, Kimchi was sadly hit by a car a few days before Christmas, prompting Miss Sweet to install the Ring camera.
Over the last few months, Tofu’s trophies have become increasingly more adventurous.
Miss Sweet said: “He bought back a lamb shank bone over Easter – I have no idea where he goes to find these things.
“A few days ago he came back with a large tub of cat treats which were still half full.
“He couldn’t fit through the cat flap and I could hear all the treats rattling.
“It’s completely random when he’ll come back with something – sometimes he won’t do it for a week or two weeks.
“My dad jokes that it’s Tofu’s way of paying rent.”
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Miss Sweet said that Tofu’s adopted sister, Sushi who is six, is unimpressed with his finds most of the time.
She said: “Sushi is a bit bemused by it.
“She’ll walk up to it thinking it’s something good like a mouse but then she seems to think ‘what is this piece of plastic?’
“I don’t know how long he was outdoors before I came across him. Maybe he had been scavenging and it just stayed with him.
“He’s a bit of a strange cat.”
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