Quote Originally Posted by thekarens View Post
I'm a little hard I guess. My feelings are if you don't keep your pets on your property it's your own fault what happens to them. If it's not the neighbor feeding them bad food it could be a dog or another cat or for that matter a bad human that gets them.

I'm sure the neighbors didn't mean to hurt your cat otherwise they wouldn't have told you about it. They could have stayed quiet or lied.
+1. It's the risk a person takes if they let their pets outdoors. We don't let our cats out at all, because there's a lot of scary stuff out there...wild animals, parasites, cars, the elements, jerky Humans, etc. And stray cats can do a real number on the wild bird population and spread disease, too.

People salmon is salmon. I think it's nice that they were caring for a cat with Human-grade food, personally. A lot of people do horrible things to stray cats. Feeding a stray takes heart. I would be inclined to thank them and take my kitty to the vet for a full work-up to see what could potentially be causing the health issues. My guess is something viral or parasitic.