Once again, kat, habitat. We are way off the road, and coyotes are mainly creatures of the night, as are bobcats. We're also in glacier scraped coastal barrens and bog lands, so predators are rare - pickin's aren't as good as further inland. Of course there is always a chance that kitty will have the bad luck to meet one of those predators in daylight, just as there's always a chance he'll be caught in a house fire (which happened to two of my kitties - one survived, one did not) if he's kept indoors.

I've had very good luck with my outdoor kitties. They've lived long happy lives, and all but one were rodent specialists who rarely bothered birds. Cats do seem to specialise, by my observations.