Per 223rem:

How about opinions on a variation:

A single cat that spends the days outside, but comes in the house at night.
She pals around with the neighbor's cat - mostly in our yard - during the day.

We leave the garage door open about a foot during the day and that's her refuge
if she gets tired of being outside and nobody's around to let her in.

At night, when she's in the house, we shut the garage door completely.

The zinger is that the neighbor's cat has some sort of eating disorter and will
clean the bowl of ours if we feed it in the open garage.    
Ours only eats now and then - i.e. when she's hungry.    So if both cats have
access to a single food source there's going tb a problem.

We got this cat from one of our daughters who has many cats, dogs, chickens,
horses, and so-forth.   It was taken off the streets of Philadelphia as a very
young cat and was basically feral at the time.    

With welding gloves and patience, my daughter and her husband were able to
mostly de-feralize this thing, but it wasn't still getting along with the other
cats there.    Hence the move to our place.

I'd guess that the option of sending her there for two weeks would be
high-stress and maybe make the cat backslide into it's less-civilized behavior.

OTOH, who knows what will happen if this thing is locked up in the house all day
every day for 2 weeks?

I've thought about taking it with us (we rent a house down in Cape Hatteras) but
don't have a clue on how that would fit in with cat behavior and, without any
expert input, would expect it to be a bad idea.

Opinions?   Suggestions?