Long and aggravating (to say the least) story! My friend Pat works at a local convenience store, and she had two 6? week old kittens brought in to her yesterday morning. I took them (as usual) and the story gets better. The piece of work that gave them to her claimed that he "got rid of the mother cat because she attacked someone". Pat asks the guy Everett where the cat was, and he comes up with one story of tossing her into the cemetary on Sun. morning (witnesses saw this), and then the tune changed to "I gave her to a Hispanic woman near the hole in the fence to the cemetary". Leslie met up with me when she got off work last night, and believing the first story of the cat being thrown out, we went searching in the bitter cold weather. After circling the areas with houses surrounding the cemetary for well over an hour, we ended up on a small dead end street. Leslie jumped out and called "Smokey" and heard a cat crying back. The description was so vague on the actual mom cat, that we were searching for a grey cat. This one is a bi-color tabby with white. Cat ran under a shed, and I tried for well over an hour to lure her out into the trap, but finally couldn't stay any longer so left food, and said a prayer she's be alive this A.M. I took the carrier the kittens had been in, and some food, and drove over this AM, called and heard not a peep. Until I popped a can of food open, then she came out much to my relief! I scruffed, and plunked her into the carrier, came home and showed her the kittens. She went nuts growling, and hissing at them, and me. I decided to set her up in a cage with the kittens in a separate carrier against the cage, and covered them all over. During the day, Everett came intoPat's store, and had a swearing shouting match! I told Pat to say the cat was found dead, which she did, and he didn't even bat an eye! I did the potties, and peeked and mom was in the litterpan with the babies pawing at her! I pulled one kitten out, put him in with mom, and she started washing him, so put the 2nd in...same thing! Now they're nursing. Talk about a string of miracles all around! Poor cat has been traumatised, and no doubt abused before being thrown out like crap. Hopefully time will heal her wounds, and someday Leslie & I will thaw out from this fiasco.