I live in a suburban neighborhood where everyone is on a lot about 1/5 of an acre. I'm still relatively new (just hit one year) to the neighborhood and only know a couple of my neighbors. The few I know I'm on good terms with.

When I moved in, I noticed that there are around 5 cats that are constantly going through our yard. They don't cause any damage to anything other than eating a lot of the birds (blue birds, cardinals, robins, finches, sparrows, etc.). I've seen the cats fishing babies out of the bird houses I've put up:'(. I spend a large amount of time gardening and I really enjoy seeing the birds at my feeders.

I want to trap my neighbors' cats and drop them off at the shelter because they just let their pets roam free but I feel really bad about it because I also love cats. I have two cats but I never let them outside.

My HOA also doesn't allow pets to roam free but they're pretty lax (for better or worse).

I know who one of the cats belongs to and I feel like talking to this neighbor is the right way to handle it. However, they've been in the neighborhood longer than I have and their cat has probably been touring the neighborhood its whole life. If also feel like if I talk to them and then everybody else's cats start disappearing, word will get around that it's me.

WIBTA?