Just to catch everyone up...My neighbor moved last year. She had been helping me feed the ferals. Some stayed at her house and some stayed here. As much as ferals stay anywhere! Anyway, mine all came in the house and she told me that she had all of hers fixed but they were still outside. When she moved last year she came to me and told me that she was taking them with her when she moved. NOT!!! She left me with most all of them. I at least thought they were fixed. NOT!!! As you know Rosco and Abigail are proof of that. So I have been working with the shelter about getting them in and getting them fixed. Unfortunately several more have shown up and had kittens somewhere.
I knew I had Rosco and Abigails momma and sister to get fixed but I thought the Stubby look alike was fixed. NOT! Then another orange girl showed up with lots of milk so there are babies somewhere.
I had everything worked out that when I found the kittens I would take them to the shelter and get the momma's fixed once the kittens were weaned. I would TNR the momma's. Today the director tells me that someone on my street has been bringing in loads of kittens!!! She said he is a nice man and is only trying to help but now I don't know who's kittens he's taken in! I can't haul the momma's off if they are still nursing babies and that is what I have been waiting for. Now I don't know who still has kittens and who's babies he's taken! He is not getting a full litter at a time and I don't know who is where!
She gave me his phone number and I'm going to call him later this evening and see if he possibly knows who the momma's are and if he has taken all the babies from them. I'm scared to death that I'm going to take in a nursing mother and her kittens will go without food. I have yet to see a kitten anywhere even though I expected it at anytime.
I'm grateful that there is someone else willing to help but now I'm in a bigger mess! I don't know what to do and they will be going into heat again soon.
Any suggestions?
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I've been forced to do that a few times when cats I've trapped have milk ducts overflowing by AM! 
Trapped at night, spaying first thing in the AM, and let loose at no later than 2 PM, and they've been fine, and the kittens have been without them for less than 24 hours. 
Another alternative is to take the kittens brought in to the shelter and use them as bait for mama cat. If you put them into a small carrier, and cover it completely then place behind the trap with covering on part way over the trap back, 99% of the time the mom cat will respond to her kittens cries. 
I hope all works out !!!!
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