<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

Ok, so some background:
Me and my SO have been together for 5 years. We've had cats together for 4 years.

We had 5 cats originally, two juveniles, one adult female and 2 kittens. We both used to be cat lovers but since we had our baby almost a year ago, my SO's interest in cats sharply diminished. Since then we've decided to sell the cats or give them away to people we know that could provide good homes. We haven't had much luck so far but the ads are out there.

Now, 3 weeks ago, one of the juveniles somehow got out of our apartment and we couldn't find him anywhere. It was deeply upsetting and heartbreaking as we had raised him literally from birth and he was also my favorite and the one who clearly loved me most. My SO was also quite upset at the time, though understandably less so. We kind of assumed someone stole him since we looked everywhere in our gated community and couldn't find a trace of him.

Fastforward to last night. Our neighbor told us he saw our cat emaciated and scruffy looking running around with the other stray cats nearby. It horrified me to think what he must've been through, with several storms in the past few weeks, but I was excited nonetheless - he's still alive and there's hope to find him and get him back!

Though initially eager to get our cat back, my SO then quickly does a 180 the same night saying we shouldn't try to find him and get him back. Her reasoning is that we're endangering the other cats and our baby with the cat bringing in strange diseases (she's severely germophobic btw).

I tried explaining that of course we'll bathe the cat and take him to the vet, but she just said that basically we shouldn't bother since we were going to give him away anyway.

Now the difference for me is that I am potentially leaving him out there to die as opposed to giving him to someone we know who might provide a good home for him. She says she understands this but her "priorities are just different" from mine.
<bot>: I lost my cat, heard it's outside as a stray and my SO doesn't want me to get it back because it could be diseased.