Compassionate cat lover emboldened to catnap the sweet outdoor kitty near their apartment despite warnings from the neighbor: 'To me, a cat with no collar on the street is a stray'

See a cat, save a cat. 

Cat lovers see felines outside all the time, but oftentimes the jingle of a bell or the colorful glimpse of a kitty collar deters them from kissing that cat on the forehead on site and taking them home in a satchel. It takes everything in a cat lover's willpower to leave an outdoor kitten in their wake, even if they know the cat has a loving home awaiting their return. But when a cat seems like they're being left out in the cold (literally), the intrusive thoughts creep in. 

Purrhaps this cat needs a new pawrent, one that loves them to the mew'n and back. 

There's a reason that the Cat Distribution System seems to target the cat loving community with the lowest inhibitions. Cat lovers can't be expected to be rational when it comes to outdoor cats, because when a kitty repeatedly visits your window, meows on your fence, and slurps up the water left in the bowl for them outside, it really makes you wonder if they're getting the love and affection they deserve from their home base. 

This cat lover's better judgement took over after watching the comings and goings of the apartment complex's outdoor cat for several months. Over the course of the winter, and after constructing a well-inhabited outdoor kitty box on their balcony, this neighbor decided that the sweet, outdoor cat in their complex deserved better than their technical owner's care. Sure, they had a human being who brought them into this neighborhood, but this cat lover was determined to bring them out of the cold and into a warm, loving home.

Even if that meant staging a well-calculated catnapping. 

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