brother had an outside cat when we were growing up. pure white named "angel". he used to hammer throw her around the yard by her tail. this cat was the toughest/meanest cat i have ever seen. it was only loyal to our family and our black lab, hissed at everything else but purred whenever around our family, also slept with the lab in the winter btw. it use to beat the crap out of our neighbors border collie to the point the dog would run away from her. in year 11 she goes missing for like 6 months. we wrote her off as dead. woke up one morning and she is laying in our garage, missing an entire ear, no furr / scar along one shoulder blade, and just looked like hell. she lives for 2 more years till i killed her, by accidently beaking her neck with the garage door. found her the next morning.
dogs are way better though.