The number of ferals have exploded here.

Allt he kittens from last year (and I still recognise some) are now grown up
cats, and of course, not being neutered have done what comes naturally, and
there's kittens all over the place. Cute adorable fuzzy 6-12 week old
fuzzballs of all different cat colours.

IBKFergus' relatives are clearly still here, because there's two cats that
look enough like her to be family, if not litter mates, and there's plenty
more that have the calico gene on them. But there's also a classic mackeral
tabby thats new and a new tuxedo medium hair in the pack, there's an all
ginger one, and all the kittens reflect the genetics of their parents, so I
can figure out which kitten belongs to which mamacat. I'm guess the toms
that got the females pregnant don't hang around when mamacat is out teaching
the kits how to hunt and survive.

I rang the cat rescue lady again, and she tells me the same story as last
time - they won't let her on site until she's carried out the full induction
and gotten all the right safety clothes & shoes, and as a rescue worker its
all her own money & time - so she can't afford the time for the induction (3
day course, at your expense unles syou are an actual employee) and the
safety shoes, safety vest, hard hat, glasses, cotton drill refelctive shirt
and cotton drill pants just to rescue a few cats every year. Besides which,
the traps that she buys out of her own money usually get stolen in places
like this anyway, so there's little point. She sympathises but says she's
stuck. Site management couldn't give a fig, they don't ever reply to my
e-mails and my phone calls only go to their secretary and they are of course
always in a meeting and will 'call me back' which of course they don't.

There's one ginger kitten, probably about 8 weeks old judging by its litter
mates which is in serious need of medical attention. S/he has burnt his/her
face (thats not hard around here with allt he ovens & molten metal.) S/he is
already blind in one eye, and whilst perhaps s/he'll heal up ok, it doesn't
look good. I hope its not a chemical burn, that woiuld be even worse, poor
little thing.

But they won't let me get anywhere near them, they aren't that stupid. They
scatter if I get within a few metres, and I don't want them runing somewhere
stupid in a panic to get away from me, or getting seperated from their
mamacats yet - its too dangerous around here with heavy equipment, lots of
moving parts, vehicles and of course just places where a small kitty could
get trapped. if I could grab them, they'd go to the Cat Rescue Lady - I'm
not going to repeat my mistake with IBKFergus, but mostly I just want them
to be OK. This is *not* the place to have a load of feral cats, not for the
human's sake (its starting to smell like a dirty litterbox in places)and
especailly not for the cat's sake.

Purrs for the CRM cats would be welcome. I can only watch on with a heavy
heart and as Bast to watch out for them.

Yowie