The feral female momcat off the street probably could not be "re-homed" after seven years.
I'm a tough old duffer. I can take the violent "rump thumps" from a cat coming into my bed after the lights go off and I'm OK with the head butts and paw swats and groin dances before dawn that the cat does to me for her breakfast. I screwed up years ago when I fell in love with her as a loose kitten that was walking the street looking for food.
I fell in love with her back in 2010 when she was a small feral pregnant kitten all loaded up with three huge males and a runt female. I fed her every chance I got while fiddledicking with the backyard farm. Mister Mittens is very young and very pregnant in this photo I took of her in June of 2010 when she was a street cat.