20 Hilarious Photos of Feline Food Thieves Coming Fur Your Lunch

Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor

Aug 27, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Getting in between catto and their food is a less than wise option, but what do you do when your cute cat child tries to use all their cunning to get between you and your food. Now you can go hissing and swatting at them, if not only for the fact that they will use your distraction to lunge for the food they have been eyeing up. No, we need something far more subversive to overcome this scourge.

Heck, maybe there is no true way to solve the problem of cattos creeping up on our food. At lest that seems to be the case of the twenty cat children we have lined up for you who were either caught with stolen food or attempting to steal food from their pawrents with nery a concern for the sanctity of it being their pawrents food. May our plates always be full enough to feed a thieving feline, that's all we can say.

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You have to wonder just how single minded cats get when it comes to food. Because it seems that no matter how many hand gestures you make or physical attempts to stop them getting near to food you do, they only have one thing on their mind, the food.
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See what did we tell you? The cat can obviously see that there is a hand carefully placed to stop him from stealing the food from the plate. But does that interest him? Not one bit, he is solely focused on the delicious food on the other side and how he might manage to get some for himself.
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