Mid-Atlantic Gardening: It's offical , 1 by orchidfancy

orchidfancy wrote:
Too I have become a local cat lady and have now a colony of 12 cats, one was adopted yesterday. my neighbor has a crawl space under her house and in 2010 a cat had two kitten under there , female tortoise shells. I wanted to trap them but the woman next door wanted the cat left alone even that she was not feeding them . To make along story short the both had kitten last year in April or May one of the mother moved her babies under my porch I could have trapped the kittens and mother take them to the shelter and they would have been put to sleep this is how PG county deal with feral cats.. In the mean time one of the mothers had disappeared for over a month, I figured that she had moved somewhere else until she appeared a my back door wanting to be fed and as big as a balloon.This time I brought her in I did not want to have to deal with a bunch of strays, she had 8 kittens, all of them were adopted,one of the kitten adopted my husband and sits on his shoulder in the morning while he shave's, Mama is getting spayed this week , She does not want to go outside so I am safe. The rest of the outside cats were spayed and neutered at the D.C. humane society all 13 of them 2 males and the rest females they all had their rabbie shots at the same time. We already have one cat adopted a gorgeous orange tabby with long hair. I am getting them socialised it is not easy, I can pick them most of them up and some will come in the kitchen if the door is opened . it is along proccess. I want to try to find good home for as many as possible. In the mean time they eat on the deck and have a bed inside of the" crawl space" under one of the addition where they are and warm , it is also where we keep the wood for the fireplace and all the garden tools.So far we had only couple squirrel casualties and couple birds, they are well fed and do not show too much interest other things than wanting to be fed. I am very popular with the felines LOL.
Picture of Peach who was adopted by my son Yesterday and who is doing very well with his new family