That Sweet Home has too many stray cats is undeniable.
But recent suggestions by City Councilor Jim Bean to make responsible cat owners pay (page 1), and by Linn County Commissioner John Lindsey for some kind of enforcement against irresponsible cat owners, miss the mark.
The problem is, by government officials’ reckoning, an out-of-control feral cat population.
Bean and Lindsey appear to reason that some cat owners are irresponsible and don’t spay or neuter their…