Difficult to fault the shooter. There was a cat which kept tipping over our trash. Let’s just say there was a cessation of the offense. .22 shorts are almost inaudible.
I have a 1K FPS .22 scoped pellet rifle that will hold a half inch group at fifty yards. It punches hole through a 3/4” pine board all day long. I bought it and put it together as a cat/raccoon/skunk/stray dog gun. It pops when the pellet breaks the sound barrier but as long as I’m shooting out of my garage you can’t hear it from a hundred feet. All my neighbors are more than a half mile down the road I don’t have a stray pet problem.