People that don't deserve pets

It's a cat, I know the OT doesn't like cats so let's get that out the way.

We live out in the sticks and had a cat hanging by the porch, not uncommon there are some feral cats around. Cat looks way too clean and all that to be feral. Wife goes down to it and it comes right to her, we give her some food and water and she eats like she hasn't eaten in a week.

Well we take pictures and send it to the neighbors around us, everyone is on 20 acres or more. Someone responded that she was their cat, no hey we will come get her or anything so we immediately knew what was going on. Few minutes later we get the message that she has a baby that they still have and she was let out yesterday and never came back. Complete BS, no way this cat had only been out for a day. Next message was basically, thanks but no thanks y'all keep her if you want or let her outside.

We are going to keep her and see how she gets along with the rest of our animal crew but damn, why have animals you don't care about or want to keep? I just don't see how someone can say frick it with a family pet.