It's not really possible to manage even stray/feral dogs and cats that way, if it has gotten much beyond a "stray" pets problem. Dogs and cats, given favourabl

It's not really possible to manage even stray/feral dogs and cats that way, if it has gotten much beyond a "stray" pets problem. Dogs and cats, given favourable conditions, can breed up and affect an ecosystem as major predators do. Australia, for example, has cat & dog problems on a continent-scale. Dogs are hybridising with displacing the semi-native dingos, and that basically means a totally new top predator. Cats are the number or or two threats to several vulnerable and endangered species (eg fairy penguins, in the south), and have already caused multiple extirpations. At some point, managing these animals can't be done with a "pets" mentality. They are just feral animals that are related to pets. There's not going to be shelters for I teoduced foxes or weasels.