Why were cats allowed to wander around and root in someone’s garden?
In CA it’s legal to let your cats roam. It’s legal to trap cats in your yard and take them to the pound. It’s not legal to just drive them somewhere else and turn them loose. That’s also cruel. I normally make sure my cat has a collar when he goes outside, but one time one got out and was trapped and turned into the pound. I got him back when they opened (he was chipped) a couple days later.