I live on 5 acres in a rural area. A young cat (looks like an older kitten, maybe around 10 months old) showed up on my property about 2 weeks ago. It started coming to my porch every night for food and I left a my garage door a crack open for it to be able to take shelter, as it's starting to get really cold in New York, while I made my game plan. My husband was away for 10 days and we decided to trap it as soon as he returned from the trip. I booked an appointment with my vet to bring in the cat this coming Tuesday morning. I left a trail cam out in my garage to monitor if the young cat was using it for shelter, and sure enough, the camera revealed the cat using my garage for many nights in a row. The camera then showed that on Thursday night the young cat used the garage quite a bit, but then by the end of the night showed 2 other strays visited as well. The next night, the young cat came to feed on my porch. Later that night, one of the other strays appeared on my back porch. Ever since, I have not seen the young stray that I was originally trying to rescue. It has not been in the garage the past few nights, at least in the direction the camera was pointing, and it did not show up to eat on porch last night or so far tonight. One of the other strays did show up and ate the food and used the garage, though. Did the other cat scare the younger cat off, and what are chances that the younger cat will reappear? I know no one will know this answer for sure, but I was planning on trapping the little one tomorrow night, and now it's nowhere to be seen! Help!