Bella the cat burglar.
Photo: Siran Young

A moggy with a taste for mince is on the prowl in Kerikeri.

Keen hunter, Bella the cat burglar, has been bringing home a surprising midnight feast for her owners – sausage rolls in brown paper bags.

In a bizarre series of gift-giving that might sound unbelievable, Bella’s sausage roll deliveries have happened not once, not twice, but three times, prompting a post on Facebook in search of answers.

Bella’s owner Siran Young said they are “absolutely bizarred out of our brains”.

“We’re curious, we want to know where our cat is getting these sausage rolls from,” Young said.

She said over the last three weeks, they have gotten three deliveries of sausage rolls around midnight from Bella.

“I mostly sleep through them and my husband gets up to a wailing cat who presents us in our bedroom with a sausage roll in a bag,” Young said.

“The first one was half-eaten and the other two have been intact, and we have no idea where they’ve come from.”

Bella the cat burglar has been bringing home a surprising midnight feast for her owners – sausage rolls in brown paper bags.
Photo: Siran Young

Young said they live near a high school, kindergarten, supermarket and bakeries – any of which could be where Bella is nicking the rolls.

She said they are thinking of putting an Apple AirTag or a cat camera on Bella.

“She’s definitely a cat that dances to the beat of her own drum,” Young said.

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