I noticed jiminks mentioned feeding his cats, the indoor residents, and outdoor visitors. For ten or twelve years, I fed a colony of feral cats at a local campus where they were set up with small shelters and dishes. People had dropped them off surreptitiously, supposing students would adopt them, and the school was afraid a student would be bitten and they'd be sued. The cats weren't domesticated, but had been spayed and neutered, and wouldn't be approached or petted, but they knew me and a campus employee they saw daily. I'd feed them once a week. The elder of the tribe I called Bessie Boss Cat, and the others had names, some from me and some named by others. I think Bessie was the last survivor, and was finally trapped after much effort by the friendly campus employee and taken to a safer place when the campus administration was going to get rid of her to do construction on the building. I always enjoyed seeing the various ones, and taking others to see them. It was good territory for a cat without in-home human sponsors. The campus security guards would let me through the gate on holidays when I showed them the bag of cat food. It felt pretty eccentric, but pretty good too, helping to keep the grande dam and her courtiers fed through the years and the weather. Do you have any animal "friends" that aren't per se pets?