That was pretty heart wrenching Medussa. Loved to read it but I had to reach for the kleenex and then I landed on your next post about finding one dead in the morning...that was hard to take. I've never owned a cat but we have loads of strays here. I have an empty barn with hay and I keep bowls of food in there all the time, one stall is full of wood chips for potty if they need it. The food disappears real fast but I think I've only seen maybe 8 cats since I've started setting out food. I know they're around, could never figure out why they didn't show up so this answered my question. I think when winter is over I'm going to really fix the place with different little houses for each cat that wants to stay.