Bay Harbour: December 16, 2020

Wednesday December 16 2020
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Jasper the ‘purr-fect’ burglar at it again
• By Devon Bolger
PILES OF socks, underwear,
leggings, and even a bikini have
been mysteriously going missing
in Sumner.
But one resident has identified
the thief – her cat. Mette
Kristiansen says her one-andhalf-year-old
cat, Jasper, has
again been caught red-pawed
with ill-gotten gains clutched in
his claws.
Bay Harbour News reported
on Jasper’s antics last Christmas
but they have now become so
bad Kristiansen has been busy
dropping off flyers to warn her
neighbours within a two-block
radius about him.
“We got him when he was a
kitten and started doing this
burglarising about Christmas last
year,” she said.
Jasper’s main target seems to
be socks, but he had also claimed
gardening and working gloves,
leggings and shoes.
One neighbour reported him
stealing a bikini.
“I have heard that he definitely
does get into people’s homes. He
walks down their hallway and
into their bedrooms. I’ve heard
tales of him going upstairs . . .
even houses with dogs. He makes
friends with the dogs.”
Kristiansen said Jasper seemed
to be “an incredibly intelligent
cat.”
CAUGHT: Mette Kristiansen and Harriet Kristiansen-Benge,
6, with Jasper and some of the items he has previously
stolen from around Sumner. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
“One day I was in my bedroom
and I think he was wanting attention
– he jumped up on my
duchess where my drawer was
open a fraction. He put his paw
down, got one little claw out,
picked up one of my socks and
flung it on the floor. He then did
it again.”
Each day Jasper could steal up
to five items.
“He comes through our cat flap
and just drops them in the hallway
after his rampages around
the neighbourhood overnight.
Sometimes he gets a bit lazy and
drops them around the garden.”
Each day she puts two large
bins out by her front door filled
with stolen items so her neighbours
could collect anything
stolen.
In spite of being a “wee bit
worried” about the reaction from
SPOTTED: Jasper has been stealing items, including this
pair of shoes and gardening gloves.
neighbours, Kristiansen
said most people “love the
story and find it extremely
entertaining.”
“I don’t think a lot of people
realise they are missing items
. . . that’s why I’m finding it really
hard to return things to people,”
she said.
A Facebook page has also been
set up. Neighbour Brooke Carroll
and her three children – aged
seven, five, and two – were just
some of Jasper’s victims.
“He will steal socks . . . he steals
lots from the clothesline, he’s
stolen upwards of 50 socks.”
The morning after Halloween,
they saw a bikini Jasper had
stolen hanging on the front fence.
“The kids think it is hilarious
. . . they can’t find their rugby
socks so we go and look in the
Jasper bin.”
– NZ Herald
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