Man, today kinda sucked. See, last fall, a stray cat started showing up around our house. We tried everything we could think of to make it go away, because it was terribly mean. But once snow started to fall, we didn't have the heart to turn it away. We brought out an old dog house and but some blankets and a heating pad in it. We started feeding her and giving her milk occasionally. She became quite affectionate after a while. This spring we got a surprise, however, as the cat had a litter of three kittens. This was a problem, because their preferred place to stay is back near the fence where our dogs are penned in. (They have roughly a half acre to roam, but they can't run free, you know?) In any case, we realized that eventually one of the kittens was likely to wander into the fence and be killed. We waited as long as we could, but today we had to take all four cats to a humane society. Now, I don't regret taking them there. The facility was very clean, plenty of room and another local society helped with adoption, so the likelihood of them being "put down" is low. I will miss them though. I'd become quite attached to them.