First, catch your feral kitten. Then call in the experts | Patrick Barkham

My neighbourhood is over-run with wild moggies, so I decided to act – and now an animal has a homeMy neighbourhood is inundated with feral cats, scraggy wild things that cadge food from animal lovers in winter and cadge baby blackbirds and robins from their nests each spring. Typically, I’ve moaned about this without taking any responsibility until last week, when I became so exasperated, I set a humane trap.I bought a wire cage to see if I could catch a squirrel or rat to show my an