A 6-YEAR-OLD cat burglar with a taste for men’s underwear is terrorizing the streets of Hamilton, New Zealand.

    Like many cats, Brigit the tonkinese is a nocturnal hunter — but her prey is specifically socks and boxer briefs.

    The cat, who lives on George Street in Hamilton East, has brought home 11 pairs of underpants and more than 50 socks in the last two months.

    And those are just the ones her owner Sarah Nathan has kept.

    “It’s all men’s. It’s really, really weird. She’s got really specific taste.”

    Nathan suspects they all belong to the same unlucky neighbor. She said Brigit has been collecting menswear for about two of the six months they’ve lived at the current property.

    At their previous home she was thieving as well — but was less specific.

    “In our last house she’d bring home a bit of everything — she’d bring home men’s undies, women’s undies, togs, she even brought home a hockey shin pad and a jumper. She was much less discerning — now she’s decided menswear is the thing — and it’s a very specific kind of underpants that she likes,” Nathan said. “She stopped when we moved to George Street, but she’s obviously got herself acclimatized, because now she’s rampant again.

    “It’s an absolute obsession. A night does not go by without her bringing things home. I got up this morning and there were another four socks in the house.”

    Brigit sometimes puts her booty on Nathan’s bed, or at its base. Sometimes they’re left outside the cat flap.

    “We just did a really big gardening session and we found a whole bunch of them stuck in the fence.”

    The cat thief also sometimes leaves them on the front and back doorstep — and she like to get both socks in a pair.(SD-Agencies)