From my understanding, she was feral and being fed by my old neighbor until she eventually decided that she’d like to live inside.
They then got another cat who learned feral cat’s ways and one day I had to shove him inside my house when he was threatening a mother raccoon while standing between her and her babies.
And even still, not everything of any particular code is recyclable.
I finally discovered that what is accepted in my recycle cart is determined by who will buy it for recycle. For example, some company might buy yogurt tubs and milk jugs but not other shapes of the same plastics.