Guilty, Basil the feline knicker nicker
IT’S never pleasant to find your cat has brought home a dead mouse.
But the Goodwin family are beginning to wish their pet was a little more traditional – after he started showing up with women’s knickers in his mouth.
Two-year-old Basil has been causing huge embarrassment by stealing all manner of smalls from neighbourhood washing lines.
Socks, knickers and pants have turned up at Jane and Darren Goodwin’s home during the four-month crime spree.
Fortunately, all of the garments have found their way back to the victims after Mrs Goodwin posted photos of them on a local Facebook group in Brighton.
‘There are pants and socks – yesterday there was a pair of men’s boxer shorts and then some black lacy pants last night,’ said the American Express worker, 50.
‘He’s ever so proud of himself. He does a little miaow as if to say “Look what I’ve caught” and lies down next to it. Fortunately everyone’s been really good-natured about it.’
One victim, Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, 25, said she had occasionally seen Basil peering in through her window in the mornings. But it wasn’t until she spotted her flowery Primark knickers on one of Mrs Goodwin’s online posts that she realised something sinister had been going on.
She said: ‘I hadn’t seen them in a few days so I sent a message and she [Mrs Goodwin] put them through the letter box with an apology note. It said “Basil sends his sincerest apologies”.’
Mrs Goodwin said: ‘We’re not sure why he’s doing it but it might be that things are moving around as they hang on lines and he wants to grab them.’