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Very pleasent news. I used the double-back-of route to lunch today. And quietly enough the feral group mostly didn’t notice my approaching. Clearly the tiny orange and white kitten beside the momcat sleeping, (if you focus your eyes just right, you can tell is kind of demurely turning head around to look, while the large orange cat is watching closely and intensely. But the others, great giant gem, sleeping, another one stretched out and playing. At least 4 generations represented there. It’s half zoomed this photo, under their truck, I’d been able to see with my eyes about 3 of them as I was taking the photo, (very next footfall resulted in a storm of them zipping awake and hurrying farther back under the truck. Any big cat fast asleep can look that way, but I would tend to wonder for the gem cat right now. They tend to look (and apparently feel) very old at about 3 or 4 years living in or just above the ravine. (It’s a bit worrisome gem’s now sizeable family is quite so enamoured of the human help being provided to them under that truck of all places, relying on humans can sabotage instincts for living in the ravines, and is the truck permanent? Winter it was great, but a dusty hot parking lot in the summer even in the shade, no water unless that or those humans bring it. My impression is the visitors or visitor is perhaps there a couple of times a week. The onus becomes on them to persist, lest the ravine cats just become truck cats entire. They wander vastly less now, regular routes with few daylight sightings, though the people who start work at 6am see them daily. Back when it was the old momcat the black and white and caramel marbly one with the sieving right eye, leading her little band across the hillsides, with gem scampering around a few feet behind, august of 200, him or her and his brothers or sisters, their lives were desperate and frightening to contemplate. Generations later (all of mayday 2009) they are winterizedly accustomed to this parking lot. 
