More-or-Less Disliked Fat Cat Alerts Owners to Robbery in Progress

“Well, he’s fat and he’s lazy.” Words that describe a hero. “He’ll just stare at you and meow.” Barb and Kerry Gansberg are talking about their cat, Strider. He makes his home in Olympia, Washington, where he’s lived for 10 years. The couple acquired him as a gift to their daughters but have come to an uneasy truce with the cat now that they’re no longer home. Among the terms of the truce: Strider is not allowed in their bedroom. But Tuesday morning, he walked into Barb’s bed...