Thanks to everyone above who stressed the importance of being a responsible pet owner.
Until about 18 months ago, different cats could regularly be seen roaming our property, crapping on the lawn, etc. One beautiful Sunday morning my wife opened the kitchen shade to see baby squirrel intestines and blood all over our back patio. A cat was still walking around with intestines hanging from its mouth.
She went on the neighborhood website to complain about this, and some dim-bulb woman responded that she could not understand why anyone would complain, and that her cat would probably come home, except that she “suspected that someone was feeding it” (whatever-the-hell that logic is supposed to mean).
I responded that her neighbors should not have to constantly pick up cat excrement from their lawns, hear horrible feline howling and screeching from the dark late at night, clean up trash from torn-open bags on garbage night, and CERTAINLY not have to discover and clean up baby squirrel blood and guts from their private patio.
My wife learned from County Animal Control that you can borrow an animal trap, then take what you caught to them. If an owner shows up to retrieve their pet, they will have to pay a fine to get it back. She posted this information on the website.
Magically, we almost never see cats walking around since then.
It’s called accountability. This is not complicated, and shouldn’t be in any way.difficult to understand…...