The very small town of Randolph, Iowa, decided that the stray cats in the area are too many, so it is offering a $5 bounty for each wild cat that is turned in.

The decision to euthanize wild cats was taken by Mayor Vance Trively on March 1.

"You can't just let them keep multiplying in town," Trively said, according to Fox News.

The numerous complaints from the city inhabitants include a situation in which a cat attacked a small dog, as well as one in which a dozen cats gathered to eat when a resident tried to feed his own cat.

"One guy threatened to shoot all of them. I told him he couldn't do that in town. Other people talk about poisoning them, but you can't do that in town," Trively said.

The new policy says that stray cats with no collars will be collected and taken to a veterinarian in the nearby town of Sidney, as Randolph has no veterinarian clinic. At the clinic, the cats will be kept for sometime, to see if someone claims them. If not, they will be euthanized.

John Snyder of the Humane Society of the United States says he does not consider euthanasia a problem, but the way cats are caught. He thinks that a wild cat can be dangerous and infected with rabies.

"A feral cat is a very formidable opponent," he said. "I think the potential for somebody to get bitten or scratched in the process of trying to capture these cats is significant. If the cat scratches them and disappears, somebody may have to take some post-exposure rabies shots."

Another problem raised by Snyder is the inhumane treatment of the cats.

"I'm concerned about children, people trying to capture these cats that don't have knowledge of what they're doing, being scratched or injured or inhumanely handling these cats for five bucks. Is it worth it?" he wondered, as reported by Fox News.

Snyder thinks that the money that the mayor wants to give as bounty should be used for hiring someone who is a professional in this job, in order to avoid the above mentioned potential problems that could occur.