There has been a stray cat and two kittens in the garden next door to me - I watch them from my upstairs window. The kittens are of the age where they are running about but they are still very tiny. The person who lives in the house is not there all the time and the garden is left wild. I don't think they know the kittens are there.
From a couple of weeks of sunny weather, it has now turned to very rainy weather. There was a very rainy night and when I looked in the kittens weren't there. I checked throughout the day and eventually saw the mother cat. She climbed in the top of a wheelie bin which has a slight fault in the lid. I noticed her going in and out throughout the day and wondered if the kittens had climbed in and gotten stuck. All day I still didn't see the kittens. This happened today. I couldn't decide whether to leave them alone and hope for the best or... since its hard to catch the person who lives there (though he usually is there once a day), write a note explaining that I thought the kittens might be stuck in the bin.
Its hard to be sure whether people will be sympathetic to a cats plight or whether I might do more harm than good by letting them know the cats are there. I decided they wouldnt survive long if they are indeed stuck in the bin (though the mother is visiting) so I put a note in the letterbox. Did I do the right thing
From a couple of weeks of sunny weather, it has now turned to very rainy weather. There was a very rainy night and when I looked in the kittens weren't there. I checked throughout the day and eventually saw the mother cat. She climbed in the top of a wheelie bin which has a slight fault in the lid. I noticed her going in and out throughout the day and wondered if the kittens had climbed in and gotten stuck. All day I still didn't see the kittens. This happened today. I couldn't decide whether to leave them alone and hope for the best or... since its hard to catch the person who lives there (though he usually is there once a day), write a note explaining that I thought the kittens might be stuck in the bin.
Its hard to be sure whether people will be sympathetic to a cats plight or whether I might do more harm than good by letting them know the cats are there. I decided they wouldnt survive long if they are indeed stuck in the bin (though the mother is visiting) so I put a note in the letterbox. Did I do the right thing