I have never heard anything about leaving an abandoned cat to die. That really surprised me. Belle is still pretty small too (almost 7 lbs.) and still wants only soft food. She will eat a little dry food when she is starving. When we first got her she refused to eat dry food until we fed her soft...other people said to leave the dry food there are she would eventually eat it. Well...she ate NOTHING for 3 days. Not a bite. I felt so bad, I could not let that go on, so ever since she gets her soft food.