Pets wandering around ill, dirty and miserable

I saw that two lots on Whiskerman's Warf have the "cat hangout" lot trait, which generates strays. I'm guessing if I remove this trait from those lots the amount of strays in that neighborhood and maybe my game in general is gonna decrease.

I'm playing a sim who rescues strays, so I added the "dog hangout" trait to one lot and stray dogs were pouring in !