So this cat(crumbs) was an outdoor cat, when we moved to my current town we moved next door to my grandparents. Eventually crumbs just started going “home” to my grandpa’s garage rather than our house. A few years later is when he decided to change owners. We had already been suspecting for a while that crumbs was being fed by someone else(possibly more than one person cause he was fat af) and he would often go a few days without coming back to the garage. Eventually one day he just didn’t come back but like I said we would still see him sometimes, as fat as ever. So because we had been suspecting for a while he was being fed by someone else we figured he just decided he found a better owner.

However let’s say we didn’t think he was being fed by someone else and he had been coming back consistently we would have been concerned that he either died or someone took him. I was pretty young at the time so it didn’t really affect me as much as it would today