“We have no shortage of domestic dogs or cats.”
If I see a loose dog here on the ranch it gets one chance, I’ll try and call it in but if it doesn’t come in or runs, it gets shot. Feral cats don’t get that luxury, they get shot on sight, the same as all coyotes.
This dog is apparently nice...the families in the rural area knew she had been abandoned and had been feeding her for a couple of months.
Just guessing from growing up in the area, but I imagine that they thought she would eventually just “stick around” and become the farm dog. Nothing wrong with that; better life than she had with the person who dumped her. I’m just glad that when she was injured she ended up at the farmhouse of someone who decided to try to help her.