Lunch-stealing cat gets local family on TV

LOGAN - Lisa Alberta sort of feels bad about grabbing the camera instead of helping her son.

But, seeing the dinner table shenanigans captured on film a few years ago broadcast on national TV will likely ease her guilt.

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Alberta, of Logan, learned Thursday the video of the family cat swiping her son’s mac-and-cheese will air on ABC’s “America’s Funniest Videos” on Sunday night.

“It was just a normal day at home. We were eating lunch and the cat — who we didn’t know at the time was sick — was acting strangely and then jumped up on the table,” Alberta said.

Pudd the cat’s antics didn’t sit well with her son Adam, but apparently proved hilarious to his mom and siblings.“I grabbed the camera and started the videotape.”

Adam’s fellow triplets, Matthew and Emily, were laughing, older brother Michael poked at the cat with a straw and Alberta kept filming.

Then, the footage sat on a hard drive for a few years until Alberta showed it to some colleagues who convinced her to send it to "AFV."

“I really didn’t think anything would come of it,” Alberta told the Courier-Post on Friday. “We all think our kids are the funniest and cutest.”

But, show officials called Thursday to say the clip would be featured in Sunday’s episode.

Alberta isn’t sure how much of the video will air, but is pleased she and her family get to be a part of a show they watch faithfully each week.

And Adam, whom Alberta describes as the most sensitive of her kids, is taking it in stride.

“Ironically enough, he’s very excited about it,” she said. “I was worried he might be upset at crying on national TV, but he thinks he’s going to win a million dollars and be famous.”

Sunday’s episode airs on ABC at 7 p.m. and the Alberta’s clip will be available on the show’s YouTube and Facebook pages.