you dont get to say youre "passionate" about cats if your response to the idea of a cat dying a very easily preventable death is "welp thats nature, i have a god-given right to not take care of my pet & let it get killed in the wild". hopefully you turn your "passion" into "knowledge" before your cat or the ecosystem its slowly dissolving pays the price of your ignorance.
tl;dr -- you arent an animal expert just because you think cats are cute. get a grip
Its sad if a cat dies I will be devestated when my cat dies, I am sad if a cat dies, just because I dont cry about it and accept it as normal does not mean I do not care for the safery or wellbeing of the cat. I am not leaving my pets outside, I dont consider my barn cats my pets, because theyre not pets, I provide shelter, food, water, and they provide the killing of pests, and notification of larger pests like possum or raccoon.
My oldest current outside cat is a whopping 7 years old now, the oldest ever on my farm made it to 15, cats have been on this farm for 40ish years and the ecosystem is great here, cats existing outside is not the problem.
Yeah, I think cats are cute, thats why I started adoring and obsessing over them. Then that adortion of that cuteness turned into a need to learn everything about their entire species, then their entire genus. I maybe started learning about cats extensively maybe a decade ago? I bought textbooks about zoology, biology, that simply featured any type of cat, when online, researching, i exclusively read .gov or .edu sources (I read .com and .org, etc. Too but thats just for funsies not research)
My cats in no way have a bad life, I can assure you that they are very happy and healthy cats
I am in no way saying that all cats should be outside cats, I am saying that cats that are okay with being outside cats, like my barn cats, should be able to be outside, they know how to survive, I recommend taking in kittens, and desexing strays.
I, of course, as any person purrsuing (haha, get it? Purr? Like a cat! I know, I'm actually hilarious) a career of science am willing to change my standing if given the proper sources and reasonings. I have done my research on the topic, I have formed my opinion.
Picture: My black 7 (maybe 5 or 6 in the photo) year old female outside cat rolling around in the sand, she is pregnant in this photo, she has since been spayed due to reproductve complications