Have you considered TikiCat cat food? I tried to feed it to Porter, but we found out pretty fast that Porter is intolerant of fish and almost all of the TikiCat foods contain some form of fish. TikiCat is what Jackson Galaxy recommends as his preferred diet and you can mail order the stuff from Amazon or Petflow by the case.
As far as cats being afraid of outside, I hear you. Porter is also a rescue. My daughter adopted him from the shelter last year. He hates one of my dogs, but not the other. We have no idea why. When we adopted him, Porter had an infected wound in his shoulder that the shelter's vet had been trying to heal. It was from a fight with another cat. He'd lived outside for so long that he has clipped ears from all the cat fights he's been in and we know Porter was a tough customer. Cats don't make it to his age outside unless they are.
Now, Porter will not willingly go outside now that he has experienced the life of a dedicated house cat. He wants nothing to do with it, so the key to keeping his weight down is a process called "catification." Jackson Galaxy, again. He's awesome. He just put a book out about his catification technique. What it is, in a nutshell is designing your interior living space so that your cats have the ability to climb more and burn more calories. It involves using cat trees and putting up shelves on the walls... That sort of thing. It's fun to do and it saves us from the stress of taking Porter out on lead.
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