Hello, all!
 My indoor cat, Patches, popped out a screen and got out 2 weeks ago.  We
spotted him under our deck, but my impatient hubby tried to flush him out
with the hose, freaked him out, and he ran into the woods behind our house.

We have 2 queens who have had litters on our rural back porch. A stray
tom killed all but one of one litter and all but two of the other. Since
then, we have locked out all the barn cats except for the two mothers,
who we let in and out at their whim. The kittens are in shelters ...