Update: I just wanted to say thank you to those who responded after reading my entire post; greatly appreciate it. I spread clementine peels around the entire run and coop and tonight I didn’t hear a single meow ^^
On another note, to all the boomers who suggested I shoot the cat... I don’t own a gun. I don’t want to own a gun. I don’t want to kill the cat let alone shoot the thing. Regardless, I live in a suburban area where it is illegal for residents to kill stray/feral cats.
If your first mentality is to kill the thing that’s just trying to survive, please [redact] yourselves from this discussion. We’re humans. We are /the/ apex predator and some of us actually have something called logical reasoning. You think that the cat asked to be born? Do you think it knew that when it tried to get dinner, their human mother would Naruto run outside in the rain with nothing but a flashlight and a pair of scissors!?huh?! Do you?! Exactly. If you couldn’t see through my sarcasm, I was looking for the more humane alternatives other than killing the thing but clearly some of you just jumped to ammunition sizes.
Btw if y’all couldn’t read: I asked how to catch the thing not what bullet I should use

luckily I found a temporary alternative that does not involve killing the thing. I’m shocked at some of your responses...