If raccoons are so smart, why are they so easy to trap? I can stand next to the trap and adjust the trigger and they’ll go right in if there’s bird seed to be had, or at food, which they adore far more than any cat. You can trap a coon or dog repeatedly, because of their greed.
I guess they’d be smart if it were not for other factors: Because like dogs, when all your brain cells are focused on food or pheromones, it’s as if you have no brains at all.
Teenagers beware...
The management of the complex where I live put out one of those humane traps to catch a feral cat.
Every day when we passed the trap, the food was gone and the trap sprung. I don’t know if they ever caught it, or how the cat did it - or if it was some other critter.