> We have five cats, four of which were strays that we took in. They are now indoor > cats and I sometimes wonder what would happen if we let them out.
While cats seem to be designed to be lazy, to live indoors (damn, they train themselves naturally), and to get pampered to no end, they are incredibly hard animals. Example: a friend of mine had a cat, she was like 13yo and pretty battered (the cat, not my friend). No nails, deaf, and something else. Maybe one-eyed or something like that. One day the cat disappeared.
One year later, she appeared almost dead in front of my friend's door. She took the poor animal to the vet, went through surgery and whatnot. She survived one whole winter in Canada (and apparently where my friend lived winter is both too heavy and too long). The idiot cat survived alone, without nails and without hearing anything, in a small city surrounded by woods. She died a few weeks after returning.
If your cats were once street cats, I think they'd have no problem surviving there again.
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