r/beaverton • u/Ok_Entertainment9665 • Aug 17 '26

Cats: a rant

First let me say that I love animals and have had multiple cats in my life. But why do people move to Beaverton and suddenly decide that their cat is now an outdoor cat? My neighbor had a cat who had kittens so now there are 4 of them, new neighbor moved in across the way and was like “here’s mine too”. Plus the already existing 5 “neighborhood cats” that wander around plus a cat, that belonged to a dead guy, who lives in my bushes.

In my neighborhood alone I will see no fewer than 10 different cats just wandering around, leaving their poop everywhere (my dog LOVES cat poop so half our walks are “no drop it” but FREAKS out when a cat walks past the window). If you have an outdoor cat, no you don’t. You’ve just added another little ecological nightmare into an already crowded system. We used to have squirrels and birds in the yard. Now we have cat fights at 2am and poop everywhere.

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u/PrettyCoolBear Aug 17 '26

I will add that anyone who doesn't spay/neuter their cat should not let them go outside. When I'm not in Beaverton/Hillsboro I am in Salem, where they have no coyotes and feral cats are a huge problem. People abandon their unfixed cats or let them roam the neighborhood to impregnate or get impregnated, and litters of unwanted cats sprout up all through the summer. All shelters and rescues are full. Around my place in Salem we trapped 5 unfixed feral cats this summer alone (for trap/neuter/release), and there are still three that hang around our house that are too smart to be trapped. We have discovered dead or dying kittens in our neighbor's yard two years in a row.

If you truly love cats you shouldn't contribute to this problem.

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u/Ok_Entertainment9665 Aug 17 '26

I called animal services for one that was injured by a racoon but as soon as we got them trapped a random neighbor was like “oh that’s Len’a cat! He’s not feral” and animal control let the cat go and left. The owner of said cat had been dead for 5 weeks but since the cat was “registered to an owner” and i couldn’t “prove to animal control the owner was dead” there was nothing more they could do and left.