We have a racoon problem in our neighborhood. The traps used also tend to catch neighborhood cats. Identified cat owners get their cat back along with a notice to not let their cat roam at night, otherwise they will be fined. The racoons get released at the WMA down the road.
sounds fair and balanced
Last summer our neighbors called animal control about stray cats in our neighborhood. We had a bunch of them, constantly breeding more. Animal control told them to trap some and they would come pick them up. One night they caught a raccoon. When animal control came they were going to charge the couple with illegally trapping a raccoon. Our neighbor asked the animal control officer how he would suggest they tell the raccoons not to come into the trap. He said he didn’t know if they could read and more importantly he wasn’t surte they knew English and he sure didn’t know any Raccoon language. The officer wasn’t amused, but he didn’t give them a summons, guess even he realized how stupid the suggestion was.