Too late, too little

Yesterday was a disappointment at the factory, to say the least. We got there alittle later than normal as had a new local volunteer who wanted to come with us and see how I worked. When we got there - me, Angiliki, her husband Viscilli, and the new volunteer - the old lady had already been and fed the cats. result was everyone was well fed and didn't come out. We got just one taker, a big ginger fella, in an hour. We gave up there and move to Angeliki's neighborhood as she had a bunch of cats she wanted trapping. Wow, what an eye opener! Right in the middle of the city, the streets are no wider than a back-to-back street in Leeds and you have buildings right up against one another, and a narrow pavement, then cars parked on both sides of the road. In amoungst this live the cats, dodging traffic, pitbulls [yes, even in Greece], and anything else the city throws at them. We managed to nap a hefty 5 cats yesterday, which Angeleiki was delighted with. All the time a small, ginger 3 months old kitten was hanging out with us/the cats. Poor little bugger didn't quite know what to do with the traffic and and Angeliki says he has yet to get his 'road sense'. She says there were 2 kittens but now just one. Despite the 5 we caught there were at least 5 more who have already been neutered and 'hung-out' with us, a couple letting us stroke them as they know Angeliki and hubby who feed them. Guys, this is ONE BLOCK in the city.Multiply that around the rest of Athens and you're starting to get a flavour of how big the cat issue is. So whilst the factory was a bust yesterday, we still did some good work. We started around 4-ish in the afternoon and I finally got home after dropping the trapped cats off at the 'holding station' [basically an empty flat someone has given the volunteers] down in the middle of the city at half-past-ten. A long, but rewarding day. Right, today's foray to the factory begins in about 45 minutes. let's see who we get....