{"id":10021,"date":"2025-07-30T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:01:38","slug":"a-cat-named-leonardo-da-pinchy-doesnt-want-your-affection-he-wants-to-steal-your-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/a-cat-named-leonardo-da-pinchy-doesnt-want-your-affection-he-wants-to-steal-your-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn\u2019t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cat-stealing-new-zealand-leonardo-da-pinchy-9a1ce4a1073d9eb9547aa9c8ff2f9e51\">AP<\/a> Most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-zealand\">cat<\/a>\u00a0owners dread their pets bringing home mice or birds. But for the owners of one felonious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-nagasaki-trade-cats-bobtail-luck-8f81c1262cea38b35d2ff167b33adb9b\">feline<\/a>\u00a0in Auckland,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-zealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, there\u2019s a worse shame \u2014 being the unwitting accomplice to an unstoppable one-cat crimewave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn\u2019t want your affection. He wants to steal your clothes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWaqaiJ8xcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His prolific laundry-pinching from clotheslines and bedrooms in the placid beachside neighborhood of Mairangi Bay has turned 15-month-old Leo into a local celebrity and earned him a new moniker. He now goes by Leonardo da Pinchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he\u2019s got expensive taste. His frequent hauls include silk boxer shorts, thick men\u2019s work socks \u2014 preferably with clothespins still attached \u2014 and in one mortifying episode for his humans, a brand-new 300 New Zealand dollar ($181) cashmere sweater.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Most\u00a0cat\u00a0owners dread their pets bringing home mice or birds. But for the owners of one felonious\u00a0feline\u00a0in Auckland,\u00a0New Zealand, there\u2019s a worse shame \u2014 being the unwitting accomplice to an unstoppable one-cat crimewave. His prolific laundry-pinching from clotheslines and bedrooms in the placid beachside neighborhood of Mairangi Bay has turned 15-month-old Leo into a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10022,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}