There were about a half dozen cats in the colony when the caretakers moved. We tried for two weeks to trap them so they could be moved to their new space and were instructing them on relocation protocols (i.e. they had a place to keep them indoors for two weeks and so forth). The trouble is, the cats also fed inside a building next door where a goodhearted, but flaky and unreliable man had an empty attic-like space. We couldn't get messages to him reliably to stop feeding, or give us access to his space (the cats got in through a hole in the wall). And the normal people on the other side and property owner saw the cats as a nuisance, so could not be counted on to help. So we were unable to trap them, and with the reliable feeders having moved off, the cats wouldn't congregate in front here any more. We had to abandon our efforts and the cats sort of faded back into the nooks and crannies of the neighborhood. Jackie was trapped in a different location that she started feeding at.
My one big regret about this colony is that there was still one unspayed female among them. The others had all been fixed.
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are the rest of them out of there?
There were about a half dozen cats in the colony when the caretakers moved. We tried for two weeks to trap them so they could be moved to their new space and were instructing them on relocation protocols (i.e. they had a place to keep them indoors for two weeks and so forth). The trouble is, the cats also fed inside a building next door where a goodhearted, but flaky and unreliable man had an empty attic-like space. We couldn't get messages to him reliably to stop feeding, or give us access to his space (the cats got in through a hole in the wall). And the normal people on the other side and property owner saw the cats as a nuisance, so could not be counted on to help. So we were unable to trap them, and with the reliable feeders having moved off, the cats wouldn't congregate in front here any more. We had to abandon our efforts and the cats sort of faded back into the nooks and crannies of the neighborhood. Jackie was trapped in a different location that she started feeding at.
My one big regret about this colony is that there was still one unspayed female among them. The others had all been fixed.