{"id":265206,"date":"2026-02-03T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:32:08","slug":"feline-sausage-roll-thief-on-the-prowl-in-kerikeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265206\/","title":{"rendered":"Feline sausage roll thief on the prowl in Kerikeri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTS0DY_cat_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"Bella the cat burglar\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nBella the cat burglar.<br \/>\nPhoto: Siran Young\n<\/p>\n<p>A moggy with a taste for mince is on the prowl in Kerikeri.<\/p>\n<p>Keen hunter, Bella the cat burglar, has been bringing home a surprising midnight feast for her owners &#8211; sausage rolls in brown paper bags.<\/p>\n<p>In a bizarre series of gift-giving that might sound unbelievable, Bella&#8217;s sausage roll deliveries have happened not once, not twice, but three times, prompting a post on Facebook in search of answers.<\/p>\n<p>Bella&#8217;s owner Siran Young said they are &#8220;absolutely bizarred out of our brains&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re curious, we want to know where our cat is getting these sausage rolls from,&#8221; Young said.<\/p>\n<p>She said over the last three weeks, they have gotten three deliveries of sausage rolls around midnight from Bella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Young said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first one was half-eaten and the other two have been intact, and we have no idea where they&#8217;ve come from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTS0DY_cat_2_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"Bella the cat burglar, has been bringing home a surprising midnight feast for her owners - sausage rolls in brown paper bags.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nBella the cat burglar has been bringing home a surprising midnight feast for her owners &#8211; sausage rolls in brown paper bags.<br \/>\nPhoto: Siran Young\n<\/p>\n<p>Young said they live near a high school, kindergarten, supermarket and bakeries &#8211; any of which could be where Bella is nicking the rolls.<\/p>\n<p>She said they are thinking of putting an Apple AirTag or a cat camera on Bella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s definitely a cat that dances to the beat of her own drum,&#8221; Young said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella the cat burglar. Photo: Siran Young A moggy with a taste for mince is on the prowl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-265206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}