My parents have had so many animals over the years (right now, they have five cats ...), and most of them have been abandoned animals that have just shown up and couldn't be turned away. It's sad
The tendency's been passed down. Of my parents' current pets, one cat my brother found abandoned at work and brought it home, another my sister rescued from a Walmart parking lot (where apparently the kitten was about to be picked up to be pitbull food ...).