Animal Control?!?!? How much government do you guys pay for?
We had problems with Coyotes - during broad daylight - and the local animal control guy said that as long as no livestock were being harmed, there was nothing he could do about it. We lived on a culdesac in the suburbs. Children, dogs and cats aplenty.
I thought the dog was going to shoot straight through the picture window. We built a hella fence, but eventually moved (not just due to the coyotes).
Don't they make embalming rat poison?
I like the cat idea.