> it drove me crazy that people would just let their un-spayed, un-neutered cats wander around to become their neighbors' vicious little problems. This drives

> it drove me crazy that people would just let their un-spayed, un-neutered cats wander around to become their neighbors' vicious little problems. This drives me insane, too. We've got some neighbors who apparently refuse to neuter their cats, and therefore they tend to wander and are highly aggressive. I suspect they're also not inoculated, and more curiously in my state (of the US), all domestic animals must at least be inoculated against rabies--so if their cats were to bite someone, they could face substantial fines. I'd imagine they aren't aware of this. (They've also had a number of dogs that have turned aggressive, gotten hit by cars, and have presented themselves as a neighborhood nuisance, so it's not the animals fault... some people just shouldn't have pets). The other problem is that I suspect they got the cats to keep local rodent populations down, but then they reason that the rodents should augment much of the cats' diets, so they feed them very infrequently (and thus, they tend to roam looking for food). According to local lore, resident snowbirds who move around for 3-6 months out of the year tend to get cats for this reason, then leave them behind when they depart for seasonal reasons under the assumption the cats will be there when they return. Often, they're not. Sigh.