Just morbid curiosity. I’ve had neighbors whose cat escaped before. And now I hear stray cats meowing in the middle of the night, screaming and fighting with other cats, and I just got curious… what if one of them is my neighbor’s cat? 🤔 (hopefully not)
I mean, I would think that cats who get regulary fed should have a better chance? But then, they never had a fight before so they would never have experience…
Like, I imagine this scenario is equvalent of a human getting lost and then there is a homeless person who wants to fight you (not that they would, just an example). I think a person who’ve had proper food is gonna win against a homeless person. So with this logic, the indoor cat should win against the stray/feral cat? Am I right?
You should consider one of them fights every day, and needs to survive all the fights every day, and actually has survived every fight so far - and the other one never…
however the other likely has a material advantage…
In humans, this would rather add to the disadvantage.
depends on how malnourished the homeless person is, and whether the nonhomeless was really into punk or similar spikey clothes.