I have told neighbors in our VERY close suburban neighborhood with very small lots, they are ABUSING their cats by letting them run free...allowing that coyotes are here, and cars...and then there’s me...who puts hot pepper powder around my property...which some called ANIMAL ABUSE. So sick of my neighbors thinking THEIR cats can run free...while we keep our two under our control. (In especially bad mood right now, birds nest disappeared this morning...likely from CAT)
I was driving through suburban Seattle one very early morning and a coyote crossed over the four lane road with a huge cat in it’s mouth, legs drooping halfway to the pavement from either side of the coyote’s mouth.
Sorry cat lovers (and I like cats), but I had to chuckle at the thought of that big cat stalking the neighborhood and thinking it was at the top of the food chain. And yes - one of the reasons ours is an indoor cat.
“and then there’s me...who puts hot pepper powder around my property...which some called ANIMAL ABUSE.”
No, it’s not abuse, it’s proper training.
Once had a neighbor who let his scraggly mop of a poodle mix run loose. It would crap all over my yard and walkways. Took a piece of meat and generously blackened it in Cayenne and pepper flakes and left it out for the critter.
From then on it never came back to my yard.