Falling Victim to a Stealing Animal - Why does my cat nick stuff?

Have you ever taken off your watch or ring while working in the yard only to find it has disappeared? Have you had door mats or clothes from the clothes line mysteriously vanish? If this has happened to you, you may be the victim of animals who steal. Animals will steal under the cover of darkness or boldly pull a daylight robbery without giving it a second thought. Why do they do it? The theory is that cats are treating the objects they're collecting as prey and are bringing it back to their "den".

Solution:

1)Talk to your cat, explain that this behaviour is just unacceptable. Sometimes they need a firm telling, you know?
2) Give your cat a new hair cut that causes her/him to resemble a squirrel. Then it really doesnt matter that he/she is so nutty.
3) Steal the stolen objects away from your cat and hide the stash in a secret place. Treat the magpie with its own medicine :-)