Background - I live in a small street of 12 houses, we all know each other and get along. One of the houses is rented out, it belongs to the mum of one of the neighbours. Earlier in the year, there was a woman living there, she had a smallyappertype dog and then got a kitten. She didn't really socialise or speak to the rest of us.
One day she just left. Moved out, didn't give noticed, left owing rent. Also left the kitten behind (it was about 6 or 7 months by this time). I absolutely fucking loathe people who do this to animals. Luckily for the kitten a few of us are cat owners and lovers and after a brief conflab, decided that one of us would try to take it in to our cat folds. My older girl cat hated him, so he ended up with another neighbour who has adopted him, fed him, loved him, flead and wormed him (he was riddled), paid for him to be neutered and have a full course of vaxes, and turned him from a skittish human-hater into a sweet, friendly and happy cat.
I came home from the school run today to find a woman loitering about on the street who claimed to be previous neighbour's daughter in law, looking for this cat because her child wanted it back. Bearing in mind, it was March/April when the cat was dumped. I told her we hadn't seen it since the spring and it had probably been killed by foxes or run over since it was so little when it was left. She said, "Oh well, I didn't really want it anyway but she'd started going on about it". Oh right, had she, six months after everyone fucked off and left it behind to live on hope and fresh air!
Luckily he had the common sense to be hiding in my back garden at the time of the encounter so as not to give me away, bless him.
Was I right or wrong?