I build shit for these cats and they appreciate it - which is more they I can say in other arrangements that I am party to.
We provide food and a back deck for the cat to live on. She doesn't stray from her territory which is why no coyotes or dogs get her. She will however defend her place even from dogs if necessary. Three years before we moved here in 2021 the people here that owned her moved away and left her behind. She survived on handouts and catching mice and other small animals to eat. Nobody actually took her in though even though she'd been spayed. She was the vagabond of the neighborhood.
Then we came and she adopted us. And vice versa.