When an individual is so disturbed as to speak violent threats to a child of tender years, especially a nieghbor child, we already have a victim, and a criminal. That sub-human being, and all the rest of you who complain about cats for that matter, could simply call your animal control officer, or the police, and have the owner reprimanded, lest they be forced to give up their pet. Don't have time to track the owner, you say? Don't like the smell of cat urine? Well, neither do I. But guess what? You live in an area where cats are considered feral, or free to roam. If you want country-club yards with artificial landscapes, MOVE! If you demand such tight control over your environment that you can't tolerate the presence of a cat or two, you need to live in a co-op, or a condo, or a gated community with prohibitions against pets. But until then, you all need to accept the fact that, where you live, like it or not, the vast majority of people prefer to have pets, including felines, and there's no law against that, including freely-roaming cats.

On the other hand, making terroristic threats, endangering the welfare of a child, intentionally inflicting emotional distress, and committing acts of violence on animals, especially domesticated ones with known owners, are all very serious crimes.

I'd love to know who the intolerant, belligerent neighbor is, so I could send his name and address to a few animal welfare and domsetic violence organizations.