A Can to side show for kitty choreography under the mailbox!
**wiping eyes**
I was empathizing with your comments on another thread about neighborhood strays. My front yard is the litter box for what I assume is a clandestine industrial cattery operating somewhere nearby. I love kitties (though not as much as my Dad, who in recent years has had as many as 9), but I've been contemplating Graphic Violence as a means to either keep my neighbors from letting their cats out, or reducing the population some. I flung over 20 less-than-a-week old piles of poop out of my front yard and into the street so everyone can enjoy the bounty.
Someone must be feeding strays, and not getting them neutered as successive waves of little, recently weaned yard defilers appear every 6 to 8 months. I've stopped calling animal control to deal with pathetic, car-flattened carcasses and shovel them, myself, into the green recycling bins (our local waste handling says that leftover food and kitchen scraps can go in there; I figure the difference between a turkey carcass and a flat cat is nil.
I recently escalated to chemical warfare, with "cat repellent" granules, but I don't like it much as when hot sun shines directly on the flower beds it smells like Tabasco's loading dock and makes my eyes water. Its also getting pricey. A hardware store has heat-seeking robo-sprinklers to perform nightime suppression. I think I might buy a few and post notices about why you might get wet if you cut through my yard.