How would you control feral cats?
Feed ‘em to the dogs!
One way might be to first ensure it's feral and not, as in this case, a neighbor's cat who got loose.
We don’t have a feral cat or feral dog problem here.
Coyotes eat them.
No. 4 Buckshot.
It was someone’s pet.
She could trap them and take them to the pound. That way if they are not feral the owner has a chance to recover them. One of our cats slipped out of the house one night without a collar, and it happened to him. He was chipped, and we got him back.
In the small community in Florida where my parents live, some of the local "Crazy Cat Lady" club members (as identified by the bumper sticker on their cars) have a catch, neuter and release thing they do for the feral cats.
They claim the cats are good for keeping the local rodent population down, especially the fruit rats, so their plan makes sense.
Between their place in the food chain (they're gator chow, coyote chow, raptor chow, snake chow, etc.) and not being able to reproduce, the feral cat population tends to stay fairly low.
I've only seen three during this visit and they're a different three than those I saw the last time I was here.