Sarasota Animal Control & Wildlife Removal

I have been working at Rescue Village in Sarasota over the past week about a situation at my neighbor’s home. My neighbor is an elderly woman who lives alone, but has several people checking in on her from time to time. Rescue Village has gone in to investigate her home and has taken a few of the animals. They will be working with my neighbor’s niece to obtain any tame cats or kittens on the property and get them into better homes and also to spay/neuter any feral cats so that they are not reproducing any more. My neighbor throws food out into her garage/driveway for all the neighborhood cats/dogs that are roaming around. I am grateful for the help Rescue Village is offering. They will be helping out my neighbor in trying to clear her property of a lot of the cats and making it a little easier on her niece. However, the problem I am having and think that I will continue to have is that the feral cats are everywhere and they are destroying my landscaping. They use my flower beds as a litter box and dig up around my plants. They are on my deck, on and under my cars, killing birds at my birdfeeder, and in the road all the time. I can not enjoy the hard work I have put into my flowers/gardens because of the smell and poop left behind. I also have to go around my yard before I mow the grass with a shovel to remove the poop from my grass. I have brown patches in my yard from the poop killing my grass. I do not own any pets and I should not have to do this, especially since these cats do not belong to anyone. So, my question to you is….is it possible for you to work with Rescue Village on this situation? I would hate for Rescue Village to be wasting their time and resources fixing all the feral cats and releasing them back to my neighbor’s property if it is possible for animal control to come and remove them. The niece and Rescue village is working on catching all the cats in the next month to make sure they are all fixed. Can they turn the feral cats over to you once they are caught instead of bringing them back to my neighbor’s house? Rescue Village thinks I will see an improvement over the next few months, but if they bring cats back to her house, that will not solve the problem. My neighbor is not fit to care for these animals. She is 95 years old. Her nurse that comes once a week has to wear a mask to enter her house. She leaves the doors open for these animals to come in and out. She was hospitalized last winter for pneumonia I believe because she was leaving her house open for the animals. Her niece is covered in flea bites from the time she is there helping out her aunt. It is not healthy for anyone in the that situation. Please let me know if there is anything you can do for this situation. I would love to be able to enjoy my yard again. Thank you very much.