That sucks, our neighbour across the street always lets their orange cat out to "wonder". It digs up our flower beds, poops on our lawn(in the flower bed too lol), it terrorizes our dogs. (My belgains love cats, but our Shelties will try and chase it). I have told them to keep their cat on a leash or in the house, they haven't listened.

Honestly the next time I catch him, I'll be taking it to the HS so if they want it back they can pay to get him back. He has full tags on and everything, so it wouldn't be a problem for the HS to contact his owners and such. Its just very annoying.

If your neighbours are your friends, perhaps you could speak to them about their cat and what it does to your dogs.

I think its completely unfair for cat owners to let their cats wonder about the city, causing car accidents, potentially getting killed by other animals, and intrude on other peoples property.

Thatwould be like allow our dogs to wonder around the city - as long as they came home at night.

Most of the cats in my neighbourhood are fix, but there are the odd few that arent.. and that is also creating more unneeded kitties. Our Shelters are all ready packed with cats.

Its NOT hard to train a cat to stay in its backyard. A friend of mine has done this with ALL her cats. She can now let them out in the back with no worries of them wondering away/jumping the fences.
Another alternative would be to tie your kitty on a line whenever it goes outside if you REALLY need your cat to go outdoors.