Yeah, but they lived outside eating squirrels and rabbits roaming where they wanted to go, better than living in an apartment.It's the badass cats that become coyote snacks because the badass is measured against dogs bred to love everything they see and not dogs evolved to eat everything they see.
During the last two years there were 5 or so new pandemic cats in the neighborhood. The skittish ones is still around, all the tough ones are "lost".