捨て猫

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 捨て猫, read すてねこ, denotes a cat that has been abandoned after being kept by a person.
• Basic usage: It appears for a cat taken in after being found in a park and in discussion of owner responsibility to prevent abandonment.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Not simply any stray cat
  • It specifically includes the idea that the cat was abandoned by a keeper, not merely that it lives outdoors.