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>cats are weak as hell
Feral cats in particular seem able to walk off some pretty heavy injuries. The cat's still clearly alive in the pic and the cat's also clearly an adult and pretty heavy. If it was a kitten it'd have no chance.
Owls have pretty sharp talons and good grip strength so the cat clearly got injured when grabbed, but feral cats surviving pretty grim injuries are a common thing.
Eagles kill wolves when trained for it by humans. They can kill bears that way too, but these are by no means common occurrences.
At this point the owl has to drop the cat if it wants to kill it, but otherwise the owl is pretty fucked, especially since birds are less resilient than feral mammals. Also spare us your bullshit about the thousands of years of passing skills, animal instincts are written hard enough that these are almost never forgotten, and usually only lack experience that'll still be acquired when released in the wild for long enough. Release pigs into the wild and they'll reintegrate pretty well. Release dogs and they'll form packs and behave like wolves. Cats also do go back to their primal instincts and strays are pretty violent hunters, and while they're instinctual hunters, strays also have the actual experience needed to be effective, which is why people consider them pests. There are exceptions, but they're individual cases. So that anon is right, and it pains me to say it but these redditors quotes are mostly right, a bigger owl would destroy the cat, but that one is fucked unless it goes for the drop
