This tabby is now among the more than 61,000 cats the Feral Cat Coalition has put through the process of "trap-neuter-return." They don't return to the couch, but to backyards, forests, barns and alleyways all over Portland. These cats are not domestic, and have no owners in the traditional sense. They are wild, or feral, and their shorn right ears are a mark they have been branded by one of the oldest, most organized nonprofits that caters to untamed cats in the United States.