If morons who buy pets on an impulse would bother to spay and neuter them—if you can’t afford that, what makes you think you can afford to FEED the animal for fifteen or more years?—we wouldn’t have nearly as many problems with feral cats and dogs as we do.
A dogooder had animal control fix the feral cat "problem" in my neighborhood. (A city neighborhood) That problem was replaced by a rat and mouse explosion. We used to provide shelter for the cats in the winter. I kinda liked the cats better,