And it's basically true, if incomplete. The cat is a rescue of sorts.

Incidentally, I have heard of one case of cat-stealing where I thought the stealer was in the wrong (if I have the story right, they took a neighbor's purebred cat that had gotten out one too many times and got it spayed, when the owners had not intended to let the cat out and had intended for her to have kittens). But this seems pretty different.