This couple doesn't happen to be a black man & white woman, by any chance? Would they visit a property together?
I was looking back at the original cat conversation that makes me want to ask that. A poster back then asked if perhaps the LL coming by on the 11th led to the picture story. It is plausible a landlord visit forced the owner surrender on the 12th. And maybe even some of the details of the picture people. Does the LL smoke?
Could she have somehow managed to get her cat back on the 13th? Or is that completely out of the question? Was the cat already gone when Lucas told FLA (or did PB relay that story?) that he might be getting a fish instead?
I'm just thinking of various extra chaotic scenarios if the cat is back/still there when LL visits on the 16th.
I'm not even sure EG knew immediately, or ever at all, that the landlord stopped by around 5:30 on the 16th.