It’s not been a good day .. we had a feral cat turn up in our stable yard at the end of August - very small and dainty - we thought she was about 6 months or so. Three weeks later she produced one kitten! They’ve been living in our hay barn since then - we’ve been feeding them regularly and thought they were getting a bit tamer as they’d let us stroke them and they’d come up to us for affection and play. They’ve were booked into the local vets today for neutering and microchipping but although we managed to get the kitten in the carrier (with a lot of protest) the mum managed to escape before I could shut the carrier lid, sinking her teeth into my leg as she went. She ran off into the yard and hasn’t come back. Kitten is now back from the vets and poor little thing is now hiding in the barn on his own. Any ideas as to how we can tempt the mum back? We desperately need to get her spayed as the kitten is now weaned and she will be getting pregnant again in no time…