Gnocchi sits attentively on a Beverly Grove pavement with his owner, Julia Luke. Gnocchi wears a pink collar with his name on it, an AirTag and a red harness with a leash. He observes the neighbours. He sniffs the grass. He watches bugs crawl in the dirt. “People know Gnocchi’s name before they know mine,” Luke says. But seeing Gnocchi stops strangers in their tracks. That is because Gnocchi is not a dog. “It’s a cat on a leash!” an unfamiliar neighbour exclaims, stooping to pet him. While...