She does come on regular inspection trips, because clearly it is her house though.

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Looks like it is now

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I see this idiocy spread from Reddit to the Fediverse as well.
No, it’s not. Please don’t steal other peoples cats. Thank you.

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I’m conflicted. On one hand, you’re being a bit of an asshole about it and I was tempted to just tell you to get lost.

On the other hand, I agree you should never steal anyone’s cat, and I never would. The only reason I’m answering this at all is to use the opportunity to point out that, yes, there are things you really shouldn’t do, like thinking you can keep it (e.g. closing the doors or letting it stay for extended periods), or feeding it unless it’s clearly mistreated, because it’s unfair to try to both force the issue and to create an unnecessarily tempting situation. I’ve had my own cats, and it’d be distressing if someone kept them.

But when a cat is inquisitive and wants to explore, or wants to be petted or wants to come to you, and it’s the cat’s choice, then I’m fine with that, and would have been fine with that for the cats of my own I’ve had in the past as well. If you’re unhappy with the cat you choose to keep and then let roam around the neighbourhood being petted by people it chooses to approach, then that is entirely a you issue.

They are living beings with wills of their own, not objects.

As for the cat in question, it’s still not my cat. It drops my for a few minutes here and there, chooses to let me know when she wants to be petted and then chooses to run off to another garden, probably to repeat the process. That independence is what I love about about cats, and that has upsides and downsides, but if you want a pet that you’ll have total control over, don’t get a cat (and frankly, don’t get a pet)

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I’m an asshole because this was literally the standard response by the majority of people on the equivalent subreddit, to the point where it looked like that people indeed took healthy looking outdoor cats with them, without checking if they had an owner. We had this happen to our cat when I was a kid, it got taken away by someone while it was just wandering around in her turf. Luckily we found her weeks later, the person threw her out again in some small backyard that she couldn’t escape out of. Luckily another neighbor in that house saw her and our flyers that we put out and called us. But this shit happens every day to someone and stupid idiots like him & @DigitalPaperTrail encourage this type of behavior. If it weren’t for that observant and caring neighbor, we would’ve lost our cat, she would’ve likely just starved to death there, all alone and confused.

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