His neighbor, who is using a live trap, is doing feral cats a service.
What would you prefer? Poison, spring trap?
My neighbor decided to “take in” three cats, which meant moving them from a neighborhood where the original owner didn’t want them, to ours. (Kind of blows that territory idea) These cats used gardens as litterboxes, scratched and hissed at anyone who happened to walk across THEIR own YARD where the cats decided to hide and had feline AIDS. In the meantime the new “owner” left food out constantly which attracted rats and raccoons.
The neighbor on the other side, having enough of the stench of cat urine, used a live trap and took them to the humane society where they were euthanize. Fine with me. My indoor cat didn’t need to contract AIDS from these animals, should he sneak out the door.
Personally, I’ve seen many a cat dead on the road. You want a pet, keep it in your house, for your enjoyment, safe and sound. Your pet is your pet. I’ll take care of my own, thank you very much.
We have two cats that stay in the garage at night. There are too many racoons, skunks, possums, coyotes and other animals in our area to let them stay outside. They go outside during the day, but stay in our yard for the most part.
One got hit by a car and we had to have her “patched up” a few years ago. She is doing very good again. Both of our cats are fixed, get shots annualy and have ID tags.
There are several cats that roam the neighborhood at night and we hear them fighting outside. Most of those don’t have collars or tags. They come into our yard sometimes, but our dog will run them out.
Cats are not meant to ‘stay inside’...just like you or a dog isn’t meant to do. Not long ago, in my fathers generation and before...people never let cats in the house..it was taboo and unacceptable.. It’s only in these last couple generations where people expect perfect pristine maniicured lawns with no tolerance of nature (excpet for the disease carryin g birds which these idiots feed). It’s the old man “get off my lawn’ syndrome that spreads in shallow people.