Woman Discovers Her Cat's Been Stealing The Entire Neighborhood's Shoes

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He's stolen more than 80 shoes — and a bathing suit 😂

By Caitlin Jill Anders
Published on 8/14/2020

For years now, Jordan has always loved bringing his mom, Bj Ross, presents. The cat goes out at night exploring and always comes home with something to give to his mom. It’s become his routine, and while his mom doesn’t exactly love it when she finds a snake slithering around her kitchen, she knows Jordan only does it because he loves her.



This past January, Ross noticed an odd amount of shoes had started showing up in her yard. At first she didn’t think anything of it and would throw them away — until she realized that the shoes were Jordan’s new gift offering.



For some reason, Jordan’s newest hobby is roaming around his neighborhood in Altoona, Pennsylvania, looking for shoes that people have left outside, and stealing them to bring home to his mom. He brings home anywhere from one to three shoes a night, and even if he can only carry one at a time, he always makes sure to go back to complete the matching set eventually.

“We’ve had probably about 80 shoes,” Ross told The Dodo. “Also baseball mitts. Knee and elbow pads. Squeaky toys. And a bathing suit!”



Curious about Jordan’s nighttime adventures, Ross bought him a GPS tracker and an outdoor camera so she can watch him — and now has video of him proudly arriving home with his presents.

https://www.facebook.com/1189564683/videos/10222861901674632/

Since Ross now has a huge collection of things that don’t belong to her, she created a Facebook group for Jordan, hoping that maybe some of her neighbors would hear about his thievery and come by to claim their stolen stuff.



“We have found one owner so far,” Ross said. “He took about six pairs of her shoes! She couldn’t believe it was a cat. She thought her kids misplaced them.”



If you live in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and happen to be missing some shoes, the mystery has been solved — Jordan definitely stole them.

https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/cat-steals-shoes-from-all-around-his-neighborhood

[magicarpet]

2. Cat says,... well you are always putting these on. So if I see some in my wanderings I'll,..

... bring them home and gift them to you.

[Maraya1969]

3. I wish my cats would have brung me shoes instead of dead or dying birds and mice!

[Merlot]

5. No kidding! My cat brings live birds and mice so that I can join her on the hunt

I think she enjoys watching me run around the house chasing the "gifts."

One of my cats once came through the door with a big flower - that was nice! : )

[Maraya1969]

6. One of mine came through with a snake! Actually it happened twice. The first time I didn't

see and it died in my closet but the one I saw I screamed bloody murder and he went right back outside.

A flower is so cute!!! I wonder if there is a way to teach these cats to come home with nice things.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Years ago, I also had an indoor/outdoor puss that would bring in lives snakes.

One poor garter snake slithered under my kitchen mat to hide and it would have lived had I not stepped on it accidentally and squished it. I felt so bad. That's when we had to put a block on the dog door and he became an indoor puss.

[tblue37]

8. Bringing live prey to the nest is how cats teach kittens to hunt. I have an article about

this on my Pet website: Tales:

"That Dog Won't Hunt"

http://pettales.homestead.com/dogwonthunt.html

[Merlot]

9. Then someone needs to teach the cat that I am not a kitten.

[LisaL]

4. He is a cat burglar.

And a cute one at that.

[wishstar]

10. a real Kleptocat

amazing story

[North Shore Chicago]

11. Cat has sole!