Kleptocat

1977 June 25, Michael Fox, response in "Ask Your Vet: Dr. Michael Fox", The La Crosse Tribune, page 25. There’s no solution to the problem of a “kleptocat" except to keep precious items (rings, eyeglasses, etc.) in safe drawers and closets. Our kleptocat, Mocha, a female Burmese, just sticks to socks.

On closer inspection it definitely is a fox-shaped hand puppet! I wonder where the little kleptocat got that from!

I knew Smut was an excellent climber, but I didn't know she was a criminal. So Smut was a kleptocat?