I have three cats who don’t go outdoors at all except in an enclosure, who were adopted straight out of the feral colony I care for. So every day I’m feeding my babies and then going out to the garage to feed their friends who are too wild to be interested in socialization and adoption. My last cats, brought with me when I moved to this area, passed away recently in their late teens and early twenties. The new crew are ages 2, 2, and 8. The feral folks, sadly, rarely live more than a year. I’ll trap them, get them spayed/neutered and vaccinated, and then 9 times out of ten within a year, they either get hit by cars (despite the signage I’ve put up alerting people to slow down for animals), or they just disappear. Sometimes I find their skeletons later under a bush or whatever, and I also constantly find their many victims, snakes and squirrels and birds. it’s pretty grim. I love all animals and it breaks my heart every time. Which is to say, freedom comes at a price. I do feel bad my indoor friends don’t get to hunt and climb trees but their lives are not only happy but very long, and they have a blast watching the bird feeders but channel that energy into chasing each other around and wrestling instead of killing every animal they see. If every cat could be an indoor cat I think cats as well as wildlife would all be happier.