--- --- # Watch This Sneaky, Brilliant Cat Attempt to Steal a Slice of Pizza ## Video: Inside New York's First Cat Cafe [Watch (HLS stream): Inside New York's First Cat Cafe](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-12-12. Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 13, 2015 5:25 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 13, 2015 5:25 PM UTC Make no mistake: literally everyone loves pizza, and that includes cats. Because even cats recognize that pizza is the perfect food. This particular cat, named Thor, was caught breaking into a closed box of pizza and almost dashing off with a slice of pepperoni. His owner catches him in the act, however, so Thor runs off, sans pizza, clearly feeling guilty. “You have cat food right there,” his owner says. “You can’t eat the pizza, Thor.” (We’re sure the cat food industry has made great strides, but there’s just no way it’s as delicious as a slice of the good stuff.) Thor is totally not alone. Here’s a compilation of other felines stealing some cheesy goodness for themselves: Watch This Cat Try to Steal a Slice of Pizza ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/"},"headline":"Watch This Sneaky, Brilliant Cat Attempt to Steal a Slice of Pizza","datePublished":"2015-07-13T17:25:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:20.699Z","description":"Because even cats recognize that pizza is the perfect food","url":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/","name":"Watch This Sneaky, Brilliant Cat Attempt to Steal a Slice of Pizza"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside New York's First Cat Cafe","description":"Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0MiiFeak/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-12T19:30:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3955801/cat-steals-pizza/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```