Yeah, if you drive a coon far enough that it can't find its way back, it either becomes someone else's problem or it dies of starvation because it doesn't know the area. It's just kinder to shoot or drown it.
Yes... but feral/stray dogs are a whole different ballgame! We have problems with them on some of our aboriginal reservations here sometimes, not where I live now but I have seen it in places I have lived. 3-6 “pets” that aren’t trained, confined, neutered, or fed properly can fast turn into packs of feral dogs running rampant.