Feed the cats dude!

Now that cold weather has arrived some of the feral cats around here are milling around by the back door every morning. This is unusual for them because they are feral. One of them, I call her Lil' Mama, used to run away at the sight of any human now she'll let you get within say 7 feet of her. When the weather is warm, they sneak into the garage for chow at times when there is not much activity around the door. If we had been able to find homes for the cat that took up residence in the garage-Big Mama AKA Calli- and her kittens then I guess the feral cats wouldn't be here to cage a meal every day but there are no shelters around here and no pound. Big Mama moved in after her people declawed her but didn't get her fixed so when she was pregnant and they were moving she was left behind-and I won't even tell you what I think of that! We didn't want to feed her but she ate every mouse in the garage & the shed-no small feat out here the in country I assure you-so she earned her keep. She had 4 babies and sadly we found a home for only 1 of them. Her babies are now almost 15 months old but the family is not growing because they are all fixed. I really wish I could find a home for each of them. One of them 'ran away from home' last week. My husband Jim says he didn't like all of the other cats being around but who knows? It's a hard knock life out there and one of the foxes, coyotes, bobcats or whatever could have gotten him. It's strange that before the flood of 1993 they didn't have a feral cat population here in town. Bad people have dumped their unwanted dogs out around here-as if they will find a home on one of the farms instead of a bullet-but not cats until I guess they found out about the area when it was on the news every night. Once the cats were here & had to scramble for food, you could forget trying to round em up-they are totally wild! Lil' Mama is super old at 2 years. That's how long I've seen her coming into the yard looking for food. She always ran away as soon as she saw me or Jim. It took her until about 5 months ago to not run but she still runs if she thinks you are coming toward her. She has 2 babies, 1 is sooo cute! It looks like a little fox-being an orange & gray tabby mix-with the gray only showing up at the tips of his coat & tail. The other looks like a woolyworm. The babies will let me pet them just a little IF they are hungry enough & eating at the time. There is another feral cat-Duders-who is so freindly he would love to be someones pet & the neighbors cat, which is a bizzare thing. The neighbors feed him dog food because he didn't like the brand of cat chow they got him-Old Roy-so he comes over here too. Several of the garage & feral cats don't like him so fights ocurr here daily.
So finally I am getting to the point!!! This morning I accidently smacked my hand on the back of a chair in the kitchen & really bruised one of my fingers, how stupid is that? I wanted Jim to feed the cats while I iced it but guess what-he just had to do this that and the other. Dude, would just just please feed the f###ing cats????!!!!! They are hanging out under the bird-feeders!!