Hot take: if you have an outdoor cat and something bad happens (=^銈=) that's just a possibility of it being a outdoor cat, you made the choice of it being an outside cat.
I've seen so any posts of outside cat owners saying
1. Their cat was hit by a car.
2. Their cat was killed when it went into a dog's yard.
3. They didn't let it in during winter and it died.
4. Animal control came collected it.
5. Animal control picked it up and gave it the old no babies snip.
6. Someone picked it up.
7. It just never came back.
8. It picked someone else in being it's owner.
9. A hawk got it.
10. It was killed by something.
11. They didn't chip or collar their cat and now they can't find it.
I just sit there and think
Well your dumbass left it outside and those were all very foreseeable possibilities, like sure you can be sad I guess but you knew those things could easily and most likely happen.
Chip your cats or keep them inside
and get your pets neutered
so many ppl go off when animal control picks up their cat and gives em the clip like better no babies then multiple litters that you sure as heck won't keep nor take care of..