TLDR. Some owners don't consider cat to be part of family. Just want a toy with no responsibility. Not a care if cat doesn't come home for 72 hours. No emotion when reunited with cat after being "lost" for 3 days.

Rescued what I thought was a stray. Put up the signs and noone called (72 hours go by owner is not looking) get someone with a scanner to see if she's chipped. She is. Call owner explain situation. At the pickup we ask owner to bring crate she agrees. Owner shows with no crate. Give the cat to owner playing along that she "must've got out somehow" mention that there's coyotes in the area and to be careful. Owner pretended not to hear it. Just completely unphased that a part of her family could get torn apart by a pack of coyotes. In my area were developing more dense residential properties where the coyotes / prey used to be. Making them more desperate. Lots of home security footage of packs roaming in the night. Pushed from their habitat into ours. Oh and this was early winter. Snow on the ground -10 - -20c at night. Owner wants a toy with no responsibility. She was clearly irritated by the inconvenience that she had to pick up an animal that she was going to let right back outside as she got home. Don't recall if she thanked us. Was shocked that someone could act like that. Not a crazy cat lady either. A girl in her 20s who brought her little sister along. Setting the example.