Revenge is sad

I did get one of the #%&*$! cayotes. I hate to have to do it, but I see no other way to protect my own. And before long these little ones will try to go out and I know they will be vulnerable with no mama in particular to watch over them and protect them. Two have already learned to jump out. I wish I had a screened in porch. My neighbor who fed for me while I was gone, said she had a dead cayote in her pasture. So I did hit it solid. For Annie and Sugar and Dee Dee and Jack and all the others.
Beautiful Snip, Andy's buddy is gone and one of the little gray tabbies that was sickly is missing and Opie is not here anywhere, so that is three more missing.
More sleepless nights.
I'll try to get pictures up of these little ones playing. they rip and tear around and it is hard to catch them.
The good Lord protected them all and even watered my garden while I was gone. Now I've got to mow. It'll soon be a jungle out there, where it was nothing but burnt dry grass. My trees really needed this rain, tho. A good big thunderstorm this PM. We might have gotten an inch.