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Charlie the cat burglar steals neighbour's eggs

Sep 29, 2009, 0:04 GMT

Wellington - Charlie is a cat burglar whose main target is hen's eggs, a New Zealand newspaper reported Tuesday. The freshly laid thefts of Charlie, the pet Burmese cat of Cheryl and Frank Amor, who live in the North Island city of Gisborne, were reported in the Dominion Post. The Amors, whose next-door neighbours have free-range chickens in their garden, were puzzled to wake up every morning to find fresh eggs on their back doorstep. The mystery was solved when Cheryl caught the burglar in the act. 'I was standing in the kitchen, and I saw Charlie,' she told the paper. 'He looked up at me, put his head down and this egg rolled out of his mouth.' She said she was taking the eggs back to the neighbour, who she is sure will understand as he has cats of his own. A veterinarian, Glenn Armstrong, confirmed that it was possible for a cat to carry an egg in its mouth. 'On the pointy end, it could get its teeth around that,' he told the paper. Adena Middleton, who breeds the animals, said, 'Burmese are really hard-case like that.'

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