sometime after she'd been dumped in our neighborhood.
Kitty was born under or in the derelict house on our property before I came here. Her siblings and mother were all killed by cars, or predators. Kitty learned to survive. This property had a condemned house, an abandoned mobile home and a dense overgrowth of knotweed and other jungle like vegetation.
We came to the place with heavy machinery and tore down the house. Kitty was not pleased. We returned with some serious lawn equipment and wiped out her jungle hunting grounds, Kitty was not amused. One of the neighbors began feeding her, and captured her to have her spayed and tattooed for identification.
She would show up at feeding time, but disappear when the humans with loud equipment would show up. We began building our house, again no Kitty until all the loud people left, then she could be seen exploring the construction site. Kitty had no use for any of the humans except Uncle Joe, the 80 year old neighbor with the food bowl.
Now just over two years later she still has no use for many humans, and vanishes whenever any loud stuff comes, but if I walk outside and call "Kitty" she pops up and wants to be petted / scratched. As soon as I lit the fire last night she appeared, and remained until I went inside about an hour and a half later.