It wasn’t the tenant’s pet The tenant stole it first. The landlord simply took steps to return it to its owner.
He found the cat as a stray. The landlord stole the cat and gave it to his girlfriend and had her take it to a shelter.
Older cats are often kept in shelters for less then a week before they are put down.
But in this case they scanned it and discovered that it was chipped. So Frank lived and was returned to his proper home.
But there is a level of malice here that is quite amazing. You steal someone's pet and send it to it's probable death?