Dear Editor:

It's perfectly legal for anybody to abandon a cat they allegedly owned for years.If there's no paper trail, of where you got the cat, or no trips to the vet for paperwork, you can move, and allegedly, leave a cat outside, to freeze and starve legally!Dogs are different, but cats left outside are regarded as strays, with any alleged owner assumed to be a total stranger who was nice enough to let the cat inside now and then.I learned this just a few hours ago, when I tried helping a cat that has some scary, bloody, wounds.The cat shelter is crowded. Police have their hands tied. I have an indoor cat to worry about. All I can do is feed the abandoned cat, until it dies.Michael SakaraLehightonP.S. And it's now a question of abandoning a cat cause of money, since the alleged ex-owners are planning to spend money to get married. How romantic!