You can also call anything you want a cat, so long as no one else sees it to tell you otherwise.
I've adopted 12 winged cats this way. The last person I had over tried telling me "those are vultures, they're disgusting wild animals, why is there vomit everywhere?!", but I know the truth. They're weird cats, and just like any other, they puke.
But can I take them home? What if they have a collar with a name tag that has my neighbor's address on it? Or what if they're wearing a leash being held by a person who won't stop saying "Please put my cat back down"?
An unsupervised cat outside can be detrimental to the environment
An unsupervised cat outside could get gravely injured/killed by vehicles or pos human beings or pos human beings in vehicles or wild animals or drown in sewers or drown in open bodies of water or eat something poisonous or pick up a disease that might be deadly/hard to fight
Cuddles maybe.
Some homeless people care about their cats more than their own life. The nerve some people have to rob them of their cats.. I've seen it happen recently.
I knew the guy, called him. He recognized his cat. The young couple said the cat would be better off with them than with a hobo. Needless to say, we "retrieved" the cat.
Cats are really big on consent. As a dog person this is unusual to me. Dogs are sluts for everyone. I can basically go and touch almost any dog I see out in public and it appreciates me for it.
Man ... If you touch a nice lil kitty they can get real nasty. Even if they appear friendly and affectionate at first they can just slap your hand with their nails right outta nowhere.