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On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:37 PM, William C. Garthright wrote:

> > Every farm with a barn has a couple of barn cats.
>
> In town, unfortunately, roaming cats can be an even bigger problem  
> than
> the small critters they kill. My neighbors let their cats run  
> loose, so
> they yowl and fight on my front porch at night, crap on the  
> sidewalk or
> in my garden, and tear open my garbage bags. And they kill birds
> indiscriminately (they tend to kill the species I like to have around
> the yard).
>
> Admittedly, they don't stand outside and bark all day. :-D
>
> Bill

Crap on the sidewalks!  I bet that's a dog, not a cat.  Cats like to  
bury their business.  All the other problems sound like cat problems,  
however.  They sound like stray cats, though, if they are yowling  
(probably un-neutered) and tearing open garbage bags (probably  
unfed).  If they don't have tags you might contact your local shelter  
- they might be eligible for a "spay and release" program, which  
won't reduce the number of cats right away, but will reduce the  
number of replacements they produce.

Ginda