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     We caught four of five kittens at one of the sites.  We only discovered these guys several days ago.   I was checking over a small wall that leads into a shallow trench that holds bushes and plants and I saw a kitten so I got my partner and we got on each end of the wall where I pushed the kittens toward her.  The kittens would either go into the trap next to her or she would nab them with a large towel.
    I remember the first night that I could have sworn that there was a pure black kitten but all we were getting were these black and whites, I figured that the black kitten was an illusion caused by the angle of my flashlight or something.
    The other night I looked over the wall knowing that there was at least one kitten left, I spot a black and white.  We trap it in a towel and place the little guy into the trap.  When he emerged from the towel I discovered that it was the black kitten that I had first seen days ago.  This meant that there was one other left with a white stripe across his face.
    With the colder weather of late, the kitten is laying low and I can't blame him since we have been marching through his territory like some dinosaur from Jurassic Park, taking his brothers or sisters.  I'll get him/her.
    What is sad is that one of my other sites might have some deceased kittens.  About a month ago the elusive mommy cat had a litter and about a week ago I was told that the kittens had been coming out and eating the food that was placed out for them.  There were four of them and different colors.  Each night we would go out to this site and wait for the kittens to show up but only mommy and one of her older babies from a previous litter would appear.  I was confused since in the past, the mommy would bring her babies to the food.  I was concerned.
Today, I checked with some of the employees that are near this site and are aware of what I do and I was told that the babies might have been killed.
    See, behind the site is a large auto repair area that is fenced in and had large stacks of pallets where the cats took shelter or played.  Seems that a week and a half ago there was a truck in the auto area that unloaded these VERY large rocks onto the pallets during the day.  This was the same group of pallets that people had seen the kittens playing and resting.  Since then the kittens have not been seen.  I don't blame the auto people since they were really not aware of the kittens.  I could only stare at this large pile of rocks and feel my stomach turn to acid and ice as I thought of what might have happened. 
    I have to keep on telling myself that I did what I could.  Whenever I was out in this area I would feed and stakeout the area.  Granted, compared to last year I wasn't able to go out there as much because of the cost of gas and that I am trying to balance a life for myself as well. 
But I tried. 
I really did try. 
I'm sorry.

Sorry that it took me a while but as I have promised, here are some pictures of some of the recent kittens.  There will be more soon.  It's finding the time to upload them that is impossible.
And yes, there is a picture of me, I'm the furry faced guy who looks like a kitten.  LOL

    Hello all.  This past week has been crazy in trying to locate kittens at three different sites.  I say three because one kitten introduced itself two nights ago when I had thought that there was nothing.  He/she is about a month old and is cute as as a button.  I can't believe I just used that term.
    I attempted to lay out traps last night for about two hours and the little guy was nowhere to be seen.  I'm not truly worried yet since during the hot weather the cat has lots of shade and water. 
    I did receive a call on Monday from a woman in Penryne who has a five month old cat who disappeared three weeks ago and was seen briefly last Thursday.  She told me that the cat was a indoor cat and only go out with her supervision when she pulled in the clothes off the line.  Long story short, the kitty wandered off into the "backyard" that is basically a large forest with with various life.  This woman is worried about her cat and called me to get advise, to my surprise she has done everything that I would suggest when it comes to catching a cat.  She called me last night and said there was no sign of the kitty, Fuzzybutts.  Imagine calling that name out in the middle of the night while the neighbors are out on their patio.
    I'm attempting to arrange a trip out to the area next week, with the cost of gas these days, I have to plan these things out.  OH, did I mention that there are Mountain lions and coyotes in the area?  Yeah, good times.  If I do end up going out there then I will be fine.  I have survived several major work/car accidents over the past years and live to tell *wink*
    On another note, I am going to try to post pictures of the cats I rescue.  I would have done these sooner but it's hard getting pics of the cats without getting the background of their location and we know I am justifiably cautious about revealing locations.
    Thanks for the feedback in previous posts.  I honestly didn't think anyone was reading these little "rants"
    ;-)

    I've been busy since my last post and I wish I could report that everything has been well.  Not so. 
    A week ago I got a call from a woman named Sharon and she told me that as she and her daughter were cleaning their garage and lifted a tarp to discover a Siamese cat with four newborn kittens.  When I say newborn, I mean they were born with the past 24 hours.  Just as I was about to tell her to leave the mommy alone so that the kittens would get the proper care from their mother.  Instead, she immediately took the kittens and brought them inside the house and the mommy cat looked through the window with concern.
    When she had called me that night, I wanted to tell her that she should have left them alone.  I could've told her to place the kittens back in the garage/barn but doing that would've had mommy moving the babies to an undisclosed disclosed location and never see the babies again.
    I arrived to her house where the mommy cat was now inside and had moved one of the kittens behind the TV.  Her eyes told me that if she could protect just one then she would be doing her duty.  It wasn't easy getting her, she bounced everywhere and climbed up the drapes and finally sank her teeth into my hand (luckily I was wearing protective gloves).
    I brought the kittens and mommy back home where I made sure that they were comfortable in a large cage and left them alone for the rest of the night.  She nursed them and things seemed fine.  My contact picked them the next morning and brought them to her vet. 
    I was told that the vet did all they could and even fed the kittens by hand.  The bottom line is that the mother was stressed and rejected them.  The last kitten passed away a few days ago, there was nothing that could've been done I am told.
    I've gone through different scenarios of what could've been done etc etc.  But the bottom line is that none of this would've happened if someone hadn't abandoned the cat in the large field to begin with. 
    Me and others like me are cleaning up after others.  Foreclosed homes are making people leave their pets behind or the rising costs of gas and food are triggering people to abandon their cat or dog rather than deal with the price of the vet.
    I become disheartened when one these animals passes away because they didn't have a choice and we as human beings should know better.