Unfortunately Ken there's too many people in society today that simply don't give a damn about wildlife and their own impact on the environment. When I first moved into my new house, the last thing I wanted to do was get my neighbours offside but that's exactly what happened... they HAD 3 cats... The bloke I bought the house off said he'd lived here for 16 years and these neighbours moved in 4 years ago and since then he was forever hunting their cats out of his yard (he didn't have a dog) so the neighbour's cats treated his yard like their toilet and bird killing ground. I told him "well I won't be putting up with that" Things changed the day I took the keys. Within the first fortnight all 3 of their cats were trapped and removed (I won't go into further details) and their POS dog was confiscated by council as it kept escaping their yard and getting into mine (another complaint by the previous owner who used to just take it back to them every time...) and my dogs were beating it up. But being a half bred mongrel staffy, it was too dumb to know any better. I actually phoned the council concerned that I was going to be personally responsible for injuries to the neighbour's dog, they assured me that under no circumstances would/could I be held responsible, even if it was killed in my yard. The third time it got into my yard, the Rangers took it from them despite their pleadings. A few months later they got 2 new cats which were both trapped by me for hunting roosting birds in my front yard around 1am nightly. I confronted my neighbours (a man and his wife, both probably 10 years older than me) with proof... time and date stamped photographs of their cats in my front yard and actual surveillance footage of them stalking and grabbing birds from a 6m grevillea in my front yard and said "I'm tired of getting home from work and finding bird feathers all over my lawn from your cats hunting. Toowoomba council rules state that your cats aren't allowed to free-roam and they must be kept indoors! Theyre getting up on my rainwater tank and sitting there causing my dogs to bark relentlessly and walking over my cars in the carport and crapping in my gardens" Their reply... "seriously, who are they hurting? So they catch a few birds, what's the big deal?" Then some heated to and fro ensued and less than 2 months later they packed up and moved out.
At the end of the day, You can't be neighbourly with people that expect you to just accept and put up with their garbage.
Respect. The world needs more people like you.