This wasn't a feral cat. It was a neighborhood cat who had gotten outside.
Lol, yeah it just happened to “go missing” earlier that day. How unfortunate. Video shows the cat outside with no collar, surely no rabies shot, either.
This is what happens when pet owners are irresponsible. When cats roam, they are far more likely to get hit by cars, poisoned, shot, trapped, diseased, infested with parasites, attacked by other animals, etc.
We don’t really have the particulars of this cat. Many people have cats they consider pets but let them out at night and back in come morning. Not much difference in this and a feral cat. Feral cats, dogs and hogs are a big problem. I’m against killing pets but I’m for people keeping them up and when they’re abandoned the problems they create are more than just reproducing.