I live about 15 minutes from where this happened. When the story broke last night I suspected something strange was afoot, but over feral cats?!?
What a poofer.
I almost never go to Lexington.
There is a lady in my Forest Acres area that keeps an eye on a couple of feral cat colonies around city hall and a close by property.
She is a nice but kind of feisty senior citizen. I run into her sometimes when she is by my warehouse building looking after cats.
The lady is also an extra set of eyes in the area.
I lived in a condo complex where some residents used to feed the feral cats near the dumpster - while others had arranged for a feral cat pickup. The county and private groups take the cats and neuter them, try to adopt out the kittens and then re-release the now non-breeding ferals.
When the meeting of the HOA was held, the police had to be called to keep order and there were actually a couple of arrests. People get weird about this.