Catastrophic Catastrophe

Being away from the house for just over a week rendered more bad news regarding my cats.  On my return I'd lost Dumbo and her 3 kittens and Sambo.  Losing Sambo told me that there was something sinister going on because she had a tiny, very young kitten that she wouldn't have abandoned.  There's no clue where they are going and I'm not the only one losing cats as there was a lost-cat poster at the security gate left by a distraught owner.

Sambo's kitten, Muffy (named by a neighbour), is so young that without her mother she was doomed to die. By the time I arrived back from my trip, with her mother nowhere in sight, she was a bag of bones and absolutely teeming with fleas.  So I whizzed off to the shop to buy some flea powder and kitten food.  To be honest, she wasn't ready to eat solid food and should still have been suckling from her mother, but that's a role I couldn't fulfil. However, she readily and greedily took to the semi-solid kitten food I fed her, usually jumping in with both front paws, growling as she lapped it up. I had to keep the remaining cats away to stop them from stealing her food and she seemed to make good progress and lost the fleas.  

My foot, Muffy the Kitten & one of the ginger twins

Then I had to go to Manila for the weekend and I asked my neighbour to feed her whilst I was away, but after the first night she went missing and hasn't been seen since.  I was a bit a blow, caring for her and seeing her make good progress, only for her to disappear.

I'm now left with only 4 cats (Mambo, Medusa and the Ginger Twins) out of the original total of 12.  On one hand I want to know what's happened to them, but on the other hand I think I'd rather not know.

Ginger twin (Medusa and the other twin in the background)

I'm about to move to another house and I'm faced with the dilemma of what to do about the remaining four cats. They are feral and the problems associated with taking them with me and getting to adjust to new surroundings are probably too great but I feel guilty and concerned, in equal measures, about leaving them behind.