Miami-Dade’s Stray Cat Feeding Ban: A Tale of Community, Compassion, and Controversy
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado proposed banning residents from feeding stray cats, she probably didn’t expect the community uprising that followed. The proposed $100 penalty for feeding community cats sparked such intense backlash that the legislation was quickly scrapped. But this controversy has opened up bigger questions about compassion, public health, and how Miami-Dade should handle its thousands of stray cats…