Perhaps.  But it took me more than a week to gain Tiny King's trust.  After that, he was no different than any other domestic cat.  He loved to play. Loved attention.  And took food dishes away from the other cats when he was hungry.  He never forgot his roots but he acclimated very well.  He never asked to go out again but he would go when I let him. And he never went far.

A great story!  I have caught and domesticated only one feral in my 30 years of owning cats.  His name was Tiny King.  He was named that because he was so small when I first saw him but he took over the alpha male position in my home over my other male cats and did it in only about a month (except for Little Tom). Tom was not a confrontational cat so was never a dominant male and didn't care to be.  But he was the only one Tiny King never whipped in a fair fight.  Tom was 23 lbs of sheer strength! But it wasn't from a lack of trying. LOL.