Brief synopsis of the problem:

in 2010 my sister fed a stray cat, eventually more cats came she got married and this was at my parents house. 2X a year they would have kittens. Often I would call cat sanctuaries and make up a story about finding them but I would also make a donation to take the cats in. Once I was told I need make a heftier donation by a place called Cats in the Garden. My father took 2 feral cats in he's 90 years old. Not even kidding the most I paid a cat sanctuary was 500 dollars, 100 per cat. So basically while the cats started walking I took them from their mother and left the mother cause I couldn't catch her. EVERYTIME I dropped several hundred dollars to each sanctuary to take them in. In 2016 the neighbor called the cops and the cop told me which neighbor it was, it broke my heart cuz he was a single guy and my parents would ALWAYS give him food/fruits etc. The cop said in our state once you feed the animal you claim ownership. I had a great paying job thats why I was able to pay that much every single year, twice a year until 2022 when I lost my job due to an injury. Now this is the first time we have had 5 cats at once. The same neighbor brought up the cats to my dad and my dad played dumb and said he doesn't know what he's talking about and we are no longer close to that neighbor. I have left traps outside that the Humane Society let me use and I was unable to grab them. I am in poor health at 43 years old, and I no longer have an income. (Im literally contemplating giving up and getting on disability due to my back pain) While working I have offered up to 3k to get these cats, none of the sanctuary people could do anything with their traps. I feel really bad for them but our town is a yuppie town and the neighbor who complains was complaining to ANOTHER neighbor that I am close with and he just told me about it Saturday. When I go for my daily walk I have 4 cats following so the entire block to the right and left of my house HAVE to know my dad is feeding them, he even leaves the garage door open a little and no longer parks his car in there due to the cold weather. Since losing my job, I have depleted all my savings, I am depressed, got really fat and nothing worries me more than the cat problem. I can't explain it, I should be worrying about my health since I am still fairly young. The neighbor that called the cops, and complained to my other neighbors is retired and 55 years old or so. He is still somewhat polite to me, and once it gets cold he'll say "i'll see you next summer" cause he stays indoors all the time minus going for groceries. However every summer he is in his yard reading books and I am sure thats when the cats piss him off, they also will go on his property and in his bushes to sleep. To give you an idea how stressed I get this past summer my friend picked me up and we went away for a full week. The day he dropped me off, my pops came out from the house and every cat came out of the bushes cuz they saw him, and once again I realized I have this problem, I was in such a worrying state I took 3 tylenol PMs to fall asleep an it was 10 am on a Sunday. I called my sister and told her how I feel and worry about these cats and all she said was "well what did you think was going to happen?" she basically has her own life and family and completely stopped visiting, only calls my Ma once a week. I just don't know what to do, i literally am stressing right now like no other with watery eyes. My dad continues to feed them. While we haven't gotten any tickets only a warning in 2016 we can be fined up to 300 a day. My Ma has no idea that there are that many cats cuz she is wheelchair bound. I have a friend from my old neighborhood whom I visit often in the summer and he has cats EVERYWHERE. The lady behind him feeds the cats but my old neighborhood is a really really bad neighborhood so I dont think the town cares and when I am there playing bean bags with him, right away when I see a cat my time is ruined. My close friends tell me I need to worry about myself and health not these cats and they are right. I feel bad for them, again we took in 2 of them I play with and feed but they are in our basement which is furnished but no one goes down there. I cannot explain through words what I am going through. If you can give me ANY ADVICE i would appreciate it, thanks to all who read this.