Y'know, Rebecca - if people show up with kittens to give you, I hope you are able to get through to them the idea to do what you did - for the mom and dad to invest in spaying and neutering for the cats around their place.

Kind of like a neighbourhood improvement tax!

There is a town somewhere in the USA - I forget which - where the trap/neuter/return program eliminated the stray cat problem.

A quote from one site:
Without any controls, a population of two cats can explode into a colony of more than 300 in three years, Bertoglio said.
Here is a link to a couple of places: http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/loca...og/feral_cats/

Also see here! http://www.alleycat.org/wheretnr.html

For a fraction of the taxpayer's $$, and with volunteers, neighbourhoods and areas can be totally feral-free...no new wild kittens.

Surely some folks in your area might get on board with this? And ask the nasty neighbours to donate?

Think about it....