Thankyou all for your words/thoughts.

It's good to know that I have friends to lean on here
(esp to do with my cats, not everyone understands).

The warden lady spoke to me very kindly, when we went to collect Sooty (Treacle). She said that cats seem to have a nack of locating the people they need, when they need them.

I nearly broke down in tears then & there.

I now know Caramel had been fed in the past by neighbours etc. So at that time, he visited people who would feed him.

I like to think, he knew that we would stop his pain and that is why he came to us.